Love….

So, my dear friends, is Love a feeling or an emotion? What do you think, please tell me.

LOVE…..

This feeling of pain,
this feeling of grief,
this chance to be human and humble.

This awareness of fear,
the awareness we all fear to feel.
the ability to witness those contractions of spirit.

The ability to stare all of this in the face,
eye-to-eye, toe-to-toe and still I retain the ability
to love,
to reach out my hands again and again – to understand,
just how, to manifest my love.

To use every challenge as a chance, a choice, to open my heart,
to soften my judgement, to believe my heart.
To choose the determination to stay – and not withdraw.

To invite the space to open and allow something new to arise in my heart.

Alan