June 2006 ~ Love
I have long enjoyed and explored the concept of the Twelve Powers and have found that they provide a helpful framework for the relationship between principle and practice. Recently, I wrote a series of poems about these spiritual attributes and I am sharing these poems in my “jottings” column. Each poem is combined with a quote from Charles Fillmore’s writings, a scripture, and an affirmation, I hope you will find these “Power Pages” interesting and inspiring.
"Love is the pure essence of Being that binds together the universe and everything in it. Love is the great harmonizer and healer. Whoever calls on God as Holy Spirit... is calling on divine love. Love is an inner quality that sees good everywhere and in everybody, causing that quality finally to appear uppermost in itself, and in all things. Love is the fulfillment of the law." (Revealing Word, pages 124 and 125)
I have loved for many reasons ~
Out of need and out of desire,
Out of duty and out of gratitude.
I have loved unwisely and too well.
I have loved sparingly and with a watchful eye.
I have loved willingly and with compassion.
Love has torn me apart,
And love has healed me.
Love has taken me outside the lines,
And love has kept me safe.
I have been shaped by the ways of love.
Perhaps this is what I came here for ~
To learn the ways of love,
To dare to be love’s vessel,
To know love’s fullness and its emptying,
And yet, to bear its name… Love.
"If I speak with the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal… Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things ,hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." I Corinthians 13: 1; 4 – 7
Affirmation: Divine Love, through me, blesses and multiplies all that I give and all that I receive.
jbm
"Love is the pure essence of Being that binds together the universe and everything in it. Love is the great harmonizer and healer. Whoever calls on God as Holy Spirit... is calling on divine love. Love is an inner quality that sees good everywhere and in everybody, causing that quality finally to appear uppermost in itself, and in all things. Love is the fulfillment of the law." (Revealing Word, pages 124 and 125)
I have loved for many reasons ~
Out of need and out of desire,
Out of duty and out of gratitude.
I have loved unwisely and too well.
I have loved sparingly and with a watchful eye.
I have loved willingly and with compassion.
Love has torn me apart,
And love has healed me.
Love has taken me outside the lines,
And love has kept me safe.
I have been shaped by the ways of love.
Perhaps this is what I came here for ~
To learn the ways of love,
To dare to be love’s vessel,
To know love’s fullness and its emptying,
And yet, to bear its name… Love.
"If I speak with the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal… Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things ,hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." I Corinthians 13: 1; 4 – 7
Affirmation: Divine Love, through me, blesses and multiplies all that I give and all that I receive.
jbm
