All (We/I) Need is Love

We all know the Beatles song, All You Need is Love. Have you ever sung the song changing the lyrics from "you" to I or we? Try it.

All You Need is Love

The Beatles

Lennon/McCartney

 

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game

It's easy.

There's nothing you can make that can't be made.

No one you can save that can't be saved.

Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you (me/us)

in time - It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

All you need is love, all you need is love,

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Nothing you can see that isn't shown.

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're (I'm/we're)meant to be.

It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

All you need is love (all together now)

All you need is love (everybody)

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

The Turning Point

RSC, as we call our Renaissance Spiritual Community, can also be pronounced as Risk. It takes courage or risk to be a beginner, the baby wobbling, falling down, and getting back up again, or the fool, wearing his heart on his sleeve. Taking a chance on a new beginning clears out what no longer serves us and brings about renewal and increased growth. To step outside of our comfort zone means to leave old ways of thinking and habits behind in hope that positive change will result for ourself or others.

To find a passion in life is a risk worth taking, since only our limited ego and fears are at work to keeping us "safe" and small. In truth, we are not risking anything that is worth losing since Love is permanent.  We will only have more love to gain and give. What do you love? What are you passionate about? What tugs at your heart and whispers in your ear, patiently wanting to be heard. Is it a calling to reach out to someone? Heal an old wound? Nurture a child? Follow a particular path? paint, draw, create? We have all heard this still small voice at some point in our lives. At times, it is no longer a quiet whisper, but a shout or deep restless ache.

"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't intest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk llving like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive...

-Oriah Mountain Dreamer  

Love is a great healer and teacher. It truly conquers all. Love stretches you beyond your limitations and pulls you higher. Love can give you strength when you thought you had none. Love gives you the courage to try again, or to begin to pursue something that calls to the core of your being. "With God all things are possible." If God is love, then with love all things are possible.  Love can make a shy person approach people and tackle situations that otherwise be painful if love was not at the helm. 

"love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." 

-Ben Hecht 

As an artist, I have been getting a calling to start doing my own work in addition to my regular creative job. Fears pop up, but I now know that if I pursue what I love I will absolutely succeed in creating a body of artwork. Someone else's views of what I create  and it's salability is irrelevant. Doing the art is what is most important. I have a sign in my cubicle at work that reads "Keep what you love and get rid of the rest."  I use this sign as a reminder to throw away anything that I don't absolutely love otherwise I would probably keep everything and create a big mess or not focus on what is important. It's time to throw away the "should" and "what if" stories. If I passionately step out in love, I will have much to gain.  

What do you love? Who do you love? How can you love? What do you feel passionate about to the core of your being? If love is in charged of the situation, you cannot fail; you will be successful. Even if the path you pursue comes to an end, all journeys sowed in love will reap loving benefits. What would be possible if you step out of your comfort zone and see what is possible? Each day offers a turning point to choose love and choose it again. It is a risk worth taking.

 

In the Quiet

Lessons In Truth

by H. Emile Cady

No person, unless he has practiced it, can know how it quiets all physical nervousness, all fear, all oversensitiveness, all the little raspings of everyday life ?? just this hour of calm, quiet waiting alone with God. Never let it be an hour of bondage, but always one of restfulness.

When you have learned how to abandon yourself to infinite Spirit, and have seasons of doing this daily, you will be surprised at the marvelous change that will be wrought in you without any conscious effort of your own. 

 

Embracing Uncertainty

I've been thinking about what to write for the last few days. I feel like Billy Crystal in Throw Momma from the Train. You know the scenes where Larry struggles to find the perfect opening sentence for his book. It's the classic writer's block which results in a pile of crumbled up papers. Here we are a spiritual community with a new blog, an open forum to create whatever we dream or envision.  The possibilities are endless, yet I ponder. "What do I write? What will this page look like? I don't know. Maybe I should do.... How do make this a paragraph? I don't know what I'm doing." Hmmm, Maybe it's appropriate that this blog is so stark white.

Before the Beginning: Getting Started

- Lao Tzu adapted by Pamela K. Metz

"To create is to struggle with the empty spaces

of the canvas,

the blank page,

or the void of the empty stage.

To live is to do the same.

Before the shape takes form, there is nothingness.

There must be nothingness before the beginning.

Before the beginning is prologue:

all that has come before."

I let the anxiety and struggle go, and just be with the uncertainty.

I remind myself that with this emptiness is the greatest potential for new possibilities. Though we see a landscape of snow and bare trees, new growth is just stirring beneath us. It is inevitable, as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning. We glory in the days of a completed project or a reached goal though they will soon come to an end.  New life stirs within us and will be birthed in time. It is in this quiet stillness that we can hear the voice of Spirit.

Be still and know that I am God.

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