Sweet LOVE
Love knows everything is as it should be. If we are open, love will always lead us to love. No matter how we choose to travel there. Even the hard stuff has given me the gift of learning to love from a deeper place, giving me the opportunity to move higher in love and trust. The paths we travel to love can be varied. I have traveled to love through fear, facing some scary and difficult situations. Even though I was afraid, the courage to keep going helped me find love and appreciation for my strength so deep.
THOUGHTS, NOTES, AND REFLECTIONS ON LOVE
as told by MARQUITA MOORE
I used to think of love only in terms of romantic love and what I wanted from love. I thought everything stemmed from this kind of love: transactional, never unconditional, always loving but wanting something in return, as if reciprocity were the only way to prove love’s realness. But love is “authenticity” and does not require anything for it to be real. It just is. We must allow love to show us how to be real, honest, and authentic with ourselves. Love is God’s greatest gift to us. We are here to walk in that gift. We were created for that purpose so we can bless ourselves and others. It is our essence. It always has been and will be. We don’t have to search for love in another, with hopes
we can find some for ourselves. We already are LOVE. MINDBLOWING MAGAZINE | 52
I have traveled to love through sadness, experiencing loss and heartbreak (both romantic and non-romantic) that I thought I would never bounce back from, only to find it had expanded my heart. On the other side of sadness, I gained an immeasurable appreciation for life and an expanded capacity to love. After the tears and the lessons, love renewed me, and I saw the beauty of being able and willing to love so deep that nothing can take it away. Sadness took me down the road of acceptance. And love itself has been a road. Loving my son so deeply has shown me how unconditional love and acceptance for another, expecting nothing in return, is possible and beautiful. We are always inside of an opportunity that can move us to a place of truth and deep love, if we can see it that way … if we can separate the experience (good or bad) from its purpose to bring us to greater love. We choose the way we travel to love, and love lets us freely move at our own pace and in our own way. Being truly you, in love, is your greatest opportunity to serve God. Why? Because you are expanding His light, by your ability to recognize and hold His light in you. Self-love is not selfish. Loving myself bridges the gap between God and me. It
