Through these channels/words

I want to touch you

Touch you deep down

Where you live

Not for power but

Because I love you

So love the Lord

And in Him love me too

And in Him go your way

And I’ll be right there with you

– No Footprints – Bruce Cockburn

I needed to make a disclaimer as I begin my blogging in 2024. Mainly because I’m hoping to blog more, hopefully weekly, and want my reasons for blogging to be clear as possible from the start, for myself as much as anything. This means, in part, that these blogs may not be as thought through as I previously desired … which kept me from publicly sharing many things I’ve heard from Love (my latest “naming” of that Mystery that created, empowers and sustains everything). I also really don’t want this blog to be a critique or about advice giving. So if you get that vibe from these blogs… please talk to me, maybe what I wrote triggered something in you that needs a conversation – which is advice giving, I slip into that mode so easily … and I really want to be about listening (check out my 21dec18 blog to read more about listening being my vocation / reason for being created https://listenwiththeearofyourheart.ca/2018/12/21/love-listen-create-part-2/) …and sharing what I’ve heard from Love … hopefully keeping as much ego (advice giving / critique) out of it as possible. And I’m still in the process of becoming 100% in union with Love and have a bit to go – so my writing may take on “tone”. I’m going to try really hard to only write what I hear from Love and then listen to my response to that and blog that, somehow. I’m hoping that writing what I hear from Love will be simply my way of sharing the love I’m experiencing which is an act of love to Love, myself and if other’s can pick up on the love, great…and I want this blog to primarily be about me reflecting on loving Love and letting Love know it. I counting on the process of thinking about what I hear and then putting that in words and seeing it on the screen to remind me of that love and my love and what goes around comes around…or something like that. It’s sorta hard to put in words, but I’m looking forward to the attempt and maybe others will find something here as well.

You may have got the theme of what my blogging will be primarily about. I will be using this blog to process my present relationship with Love…we’re in love and I believe I’ve been encouraged to write about it so here goes. It is a bit weird to be writing about being in love with Love / Creator / God, but that’s where I’m presently at so that’s what I’m writing about. The haiku I wrote this morning sorta says it simpler:

Love being in love

No expectations just love

Love being in love

I’m reminded how Mumford describes love in Sigh No More.

Love will not betray you, dismay or enslave you,
It will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be.
There is a design,
An alignment to cry,
At my heart you see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

I’d have written “Be more like the person, you were made to be.” but then I don’t sell millions of albums. I do have that desire for everyone to see “The beauty of love as it was meant to be.” Not my version of love but each person’s personal experience of the love that created, energizes and sustains all that is. O, by the way I just heard Audrey Assad and her wonderful cover of this tune. https://youtu.be/3IHOnfhpAb8?si=dwQW-qI4gEGnoBWg

Let me end these rambilings with on of my favourite lines about Love from Steve Bell (who has written many other wonderful songs about Love)

“Oh Love, what are you thinking of?”

His question is one that personifies Love in the way that I have come to understand and experience the love of Love. It is a question I need to ask Love more. However we’re communicating more by simply loving each other nowadays – less words – and for an introverted soul, trying to be more contemplative, it’s a great way to start a new year. Blessing of Love for us all.