LOVE IS DRAWN TO NEST

When you least suspect it,

shortly after the dawn

of a new day

on some remote shore,

love awakens - boldly.

Aspects of this love

have visited before.

kindling your fire,

shoring up

your steadfast desire

to honor a love of that

which is whole.

Somewhere along your gypsy journey

you did befriend yourself,

did kiss your Anam Cara.

This love contained within

released the clenching grip

of neediness and held rejection.

You rested in a new order of felt wholeness.

Surprise arrived when you met another

who offered their half for love to nest.

"I love you" became an emphatic inclusiveness,

large enough to contain,

perhaps,

the entirety of what is.

Loving what is,

creating and sustaining

this energetic container

for love to nest,

awakening presence

setting loose the contagiousness,

expanding spaciousness,

opening, constantly,

to possibilities

here-to-fore held in nascent dream-scape,

now released. to spread and unfold,

to flourish and intermix

and transform with wings,

the vocabulary, languaging and intent,

the rites of passage

for our human family to

uncover, till and reseed

and work to harvest

our sacredness

held and experienced

in the heart

of authentic relationship.

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The intimacy that accompanies and allows love to arrive and nest creates a constant opening of the heart, a constant presence, a constant opening to love. This can be experienced as a rigorous undertaking, this pervasive opening to love. The focus of attention and intention on remaining open in the heart to love is causal, i.e. it causes one to expose their hiding out places, their cynicism, their ducking away from life and from love. There is a boldness and even a fierceness called forth to embrace this degree of intimacy with love, within oneself, and sharing this openness with another, with others, with this world bathed in inherited pain. I propose we get on with embracing this love. Care to join with me in a community in love? Howard@mcq.com; 828.280.4780!