© 2010 Howard McQueen
What part of our self are we not willing to give freely, and place into the service of sowing, cultivating and harvesting love?
What are we holding on to that believes we put ourselves at risk by loving?
My own journey of awakening to love reveals that the more conscious, consistent, respectful and trusting I imbue the love I give, these same qualities seem to be magnified and reflected back to me through another.
Love is unconditional.
Love does not try to play it safe.
Love does not seek counsel in holding back.
Love does not behave or conform to human concepts, such as quid-pro-quo.
I choose to open to this radical, transformational love,
a love that celebrates vulnerability,
that acknowledges the hurt, pain and disappointment,
the unpredictability and seemingly limited duration of love within human form.
Emory and I applied and received a marriage certificate yesterday.
The clerk genuinely wished us the best when she handed us the certificate.
The three of us spoke for several minutes about the nature of marriage as a door that swings both ways, that the probate court, on any given day, receives about as many marriage applications as it does divorce
applications.
I am again opening and bringing everything I am to bear in a partnership centered in love. I am much clearer as to the conditions and constraints that have obscured and diffused my prior attempts at love, both for my self as well as my relationship with another.
May the courage arise in you to embrace love, over and over, again and again.
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This posting completed less than one hour before Emory and I are to be married.
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