This Week's Quotation:
Let me be embraced with the love by which the whole of creation is moved. The very essence with which all things are held together, dependent yet independent, whole yet individuated. In which all are my relatives.
~ Native American Prayer
Being Love
Terri McCartney
At 16 years of age, I learned that my paternal great-grandmother was Shawnee. As a result, I spent many years investigating and getting in touch with my Native American roots. This prayer is a takeaway and one I say daily. It's a great reminder of our unity and to Be Love.
Love is more than a feeling or emotion—it is our state of being. I am, you are, the abiding spirit of Love. Whole. Holy. A vehicle for love's manifestation in the world.
We are all Love discovering its unique expressions while pioneering new love trails in our polarized world. Why the duality? Love is opening our hearts to all possibilities so that we remember we are an irresistible force of Love that knows no bounds. No exceptions, no conditions—Love sees beyond fear and form.
As the energy of Love continues to grow stronger in our world, the shadows of fear become more visible. We just need to remember that we are alchemists able to transform the energy of fear and forgetting into the energy of love. Whenever we are able to love without expectations, agendas, or judgments, we are indeed Being Love.
Our task is to use every experience, regardless of how the world labels it, as a tool for introspection to help us find those pieces of Love within us. The entire universe is predicated on love creating itself.
So love everything! Whatever presents itself to you, see it in the great cosmic grace of things. When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited and we are all gifted. Hallelujah! We are all on a sacred journey to be the expression of one great Infinite Love Intelligence.
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We hope these weekly quotations and meditations speak to your heart and soul.
Terri – I didn’t know your history – how wonderful!!!
Love all you have said above – thank you…
Our task is to use every experience, regardless of how the world labels it, as a tool for introspection to help us find those pieces of Love within us. The entire universe is predicated on love creating itself.
That’s wonderful, Terri. I recall in the documentary LIVE AND REMEMBER made by Lakota Sioux brothers and sisters, that they emphasized all living species as “all my relatives.” Should they not all be loved? I so appreciate your emphasis upon omni-directional love and honoring the spiritual primacy of First Peoples. Love, Tom
I’m glad you entitled this blog BEING LOVE, for that is really all we’re here on earth to do. Not some humanly devised interpretation of Love, but the Truth of Love, the Wisdom of Love. And that is what you have so beautifully done in writing this blog, Terri. As usual, you have greatly inspired me!
Your words touch the heart of being love,Terri. Thank you.
All indigenous tribes speak of “The People”, their names all describe this foundational meaning. There is One tribe of humanity and all are aspects of Oneness of the Creator. To live in this knowing brings togetherness and peaceful being, as created by The One of all creation of breath and heartbeat.
Thank you Terri
How beautiful true and powerfully relevant is what you share for awakening people in the world today.
We are, for sure, here to create new pathways of Love knowing our true Kinship, letting dissolve in our hearts and minds the cruel control of a distorted lower order shadow-self activated world, even now falling apart and disintegrating before our eyes.
May this self destructive state finally pass away in favour of welcoming and praising Universal Love birthing itself in and through all awakening Souls – all desiring and seeking Oneness with the Great Spirit, the Presence of that being felt ever more keenly in these days!
Blessings!