This week I rekindled a friendship with someone who is dear to me after a falling out we had some months ago over a trust situation. In doing so I told him that I was done with the story (which had been the cause for our fall out ) and was deciding to trust him once again.
"I'm not sure one chooses to trust or not," he said.
"Well, then I choose love," I replied.
"I knew that," he answered. "Me too."
This brought me to thinking about the "art" of choosing love. Choosing love is actually a simple thing. You choose it or you don't. The challenge can be in putting aside our attachments to being right, or defensive, or separate from others. These attachments do not serve love, and lead to further separation and suffering.
So, later that day I began to scan my life for areas where I was still withholding love based on stories of judgment, or being right and realized that I certainly had some and I was blocking my peace and joy by doing so. If I only choose to love here or there depending on the circumstances, then am I really choosing love? Or am I withholding love because I am not comfortable with my perception of a person or a situation? In which case I am merely being selective with my love and well, that is not really love.If you are to really choose love then choose it as a way of being, not as an occasional gift you bestow on those few you deem worthy. Step fully into love as who you are and be love in all aspects of your life. There is not a limited supply of love, and you will not run out. Loving is the way you show up in the world, it is who you inherently are. Don't limit yourself by limiting love.
Choose Love - choose completely.
-Trinity
