I am sitting today in prayer and meditation on the way that we as a “Collective We” treat people that we love.  I am struck so often by the way that we impose what we think is best for others, tell others how they should act, what they should do for work, where they should live, who they should love, how they should exist in this life.

REALLY????

I am sad in my soul right now for damage that is played out on so many by the “good intentions” of their loved ones.  I wonder if anyone has ever created a scenario where there loved one improved in the expression of their well-being  in life by being berated for how they are living their lives now.  I find it hard to believe that there are many examples of that.  I wonder if anyone became truly successful in life by having had someone force their ideas and expectations on them.  The only real success stories that I hear are ones that come from people discovering and living out their passions and dreams, often despite the fact that no one could see that their dreams made any sense.  I wonder if anyone ever shows a change in their lives because their parents tell them that they are always making “bad choices”.

I wonder and I wonder and I wonder some more.  And all I can come up with is—– Who came up with this ridiculous plan??!!??  Who decided that we would “do better” in life because we are put down.  Who decided that we would achieve because we were told that our passions were a waste of our brains?  Who decided that we would show “good behavior”  because we were told we were bad?  Who came up with this stuff that we keep perpetuating?  Who?  Who?  Who?

I can tell you who it wasn’t.  It wasn’t GOD, The Universe, a Higher Power.  It just wasn’t the Divine Idea.

I can also tell you something else, the only reason you are doing it, if you are, is because it was what was done to you, or what you saw, or what you were taught.  So I don’t sit here in judgment of it as a strategy, or judgment of myself or others for employing it at times.  I  just don’t think it is working.  We aren’t creating a sense of peace, well-being, success, self-worth, and so on by doing these things.  We are creating sadness, and guilt, and fear.

The Divine Source, Spirit, Mother/Father God didn’t intend or place this in our hearts.  This is a human construct.  And we increase it with our own ridiculous, non-scientifically supported, clearly mistaken and misguided ideas of being separate from each other.  We are not separate.  Whatever you do to me you do to yourself.  Whatever I do to you I do to myself.  Whatever I say to my children I say to myself.  Whatever I say to the man on the street I say to myself.  We do this to each other, and in turn we do this to ourselves.

The Divine Language is not of this.  The Divine Language is of Love.  The Divine Language is only Love.  It is only Love.  Do you get that?  Can you sink that in?  I am so moved today and the past few days to see that we only get more of the same when we do anything.  We will get more Love when we Love.  And when are you most successful in life?  When you feel loved.  So why in heck would you think that by showing disapproval, imposing guilt, pushing your fellow man down, trying to make everyone play by your rules that you will get anything but fear, guilt, strife, depression and oppression coming back to you?

The Language of the Divine is Love.  The Language of the Universe is Love.  Above All Else is Love.  Love is the top from which all “good things”  trickle down from.  That is it- It is just Love.