“Dance, when
you're broken open. Dance, if you've
torn the bandage off. Dance in the
middle of the fighting. Dance in your
blood. Dance when you're perfectly
free.” ― Rumi
The
Divine Dance of our inner being has
announced itself. The couple within
stands at the top of the grand
staircase, hand in glove, waiting to
descend onto the dance floor of our
heart of hearts and make way for the
return to love. We thought we knew what
love is, but we've been young in our
approach. It's been a long, hard climb
up the tree and back down again... and
now finally after crossing the abyss...
facing the shadows of the ego, realizing
the implications of this journey...we're
ready to open up, and maybe even cut
loose.
“The minute I
heard my first love story, I started
looking for you, not knowing how blind
that was. Lovers don't finally meet
somewhere. They're in each other all
along.” ― Rumi
We've
learned that our vulnerability is only
an illusion. We've learned that our
creator has made us from love and it is
to love that we shall return. In our
fearlessness in looking at our own
unloveable parts and disowned pieces,
we've entered into an agreement with our
own divinity, some of us
inadvertently... to reveal our soul's to
the world.
"Love's greatest
gift is its ability to make everything
it touches sacred." ― Rumi
Slowly at first, we peaked from the open
cage door... and peered out into the
vast unknown... scurrying back inside
when we had had enough. Day after day,
one foot in front of the other... using
the patience of a saint... we coaxed our
own souls out of hiding. It is a day of
rejoicing. For we have braved a lifetime
of pain and trauma... reconciled the
irreconcilable... redeemed the
unredeemable.... and loved the
unloveable... and in the process
revealed the Light and our own ability
to love as God loves.
"I have found
the paradox, that if you love until it
hurts, there can be no more hurt, only
more love." -Mother Teresa
When
the full realization comes and we
understand the Divine Dance, we must
know that there would never, ever, ever,
ever be a He without a She. And when we
can fully acknowledge this with nothing
held back, this is when we get the nod
from the guardians to lower ourselves
down onto the dance floor of life. And
with our own Mother/Father God
consciousness in tact... we twirl and
swirl in the divine dance of love,
creativity, beauty, joy and eternal
well-being. For it is through this dance
that we live in the full flow of
creation, as humans were intended to
live.
“There is a
candle in your heart, ready to be
kindled. There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled. You feel it, don't
you?” ― Rumi
Our
resistance to love is no more. Our
doubts about love are eradicated and
rectified as we now understand that what
before we took for love was only the
cheap imitation thereof. For true love
has no conditions, no attachment, no
strings.... not because we are
separate... but because we absolutely
know that we are connected no matter
what our state of mind tries to tell us.
We each are a part of the other. And
this has caused us to honor and love
ourselves well enough to truly love our
neighbor. For what good is loving our
neighbor as ourself if we don't take
very good care of ourselves?
“The success of
love is in the loving - it is not in the
result of loving. ” ― Mother
Teresa
It's
time to dance... to be joyful... warm
and loving. There is nothing to
protect. Love is our protection.
When we love like God, then we will
know the only true freedom that there
is... the freedom to love. It is loving
coming out of us that makes us happy.
Let yourself love and let yourself be
happy. Join in the Divine Dance of love
and life!
"Today, Creator of the Universe, we ask that you open
our heart and open our eyes so we can enjoy all of your creations and live in
eternal love with you. Help us to see you in everything we perceive with our
eyes, with our ears, with our heart, with all our senses. Let us perceive with
eyes of love so that we find you wherever we go and see you in everything you
create. Give us a light to follow, and let today be the day that our search for
love and happiness is over. Today let something extraordinary happen that will
change our life forever: Let everything we do and say be an expression of the
beauty in our heart, always based on love. Help us to be the way you are, to
love the way you love, to share the way you share, to create a masterpiece of
beauty and love, the same way that all of your creations are masterpieces of
beauty and love." - Don Miguel Ruiz
Sunday Talks with
Rev. Renee Bledsoe
February 03 - Divine Dance
February 10 - Sacred Circle Altar - Love
is in the Air
February 17 - True Love = True Community
February 24 - He & She: A Return to Love
February 2013 Divine
Dance
I am filled with love
for all that is.
I open my heart to
deeper loving and higher living.
My mind is protecting
my soul with loving thoughts.
I am devoted to the
expression of true love in my life.
I am an artist of love.
I see the constant
expression of love in my life.
I look for the
positive, the good and the love in all situations.
I am filled with love,
compassion and forgiveness.
I gratefully acknowledge
the love that surrounds me.
The creator has bound
us all in divine love.
I am an expression of love.
I express my love by
living from my soul.
When I hear what is
in my heart, I am listening to my soul.
My mind is filled with
loving, positive thoughts and intentions.
I allow any pain or
negativity to dance through me with love.
I release
self-judgment and unforgiveness for healing and redemption.
I see the undeviating
justice in my life.
I am always being
guided and taught about love.
Loving is an action
and creates an overflowing of energy and goodwill.
Love is abundance.
I engage in life with
love, friendship, goodwill and warmth.
My life is a Divine
Dance.
