What does love require of me right now?
I saw the message on the T-shirt before I saw the man wearing it. I’d spent the day bringing The Love And Kindness Initiative to as many people as possible before stopping at the grocery to pick up a few things for dinner. I was paying the cashier when I noticed the message on the T-shirt. I knew I had to meet the person who was wearing the shirt.
He told me he’d found the T-shirt at New York’s Bhakti Center. I told him about The Love and Kindness Initiative, the movement I’m instigating that invites everyone to look for people who touch our hearts and then say thank you. It was one of those Martin Buber moments, a moment in which “when two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the energy that surges between them.”
We kept talking, and I gave him a little bag of heart beads. He said his daughter would love them. I invited him to ask her to share them with people who touch her heart. It was a lovely, lovely moment.
Since we went our separate ways, I’ve been thinking about what love requires of me right now.
If it’s a question you’ve not considered, I invite you to take a few minutes to do so. I think it’s a great question! If you’d like a little help getting started, I’ll volunteer a few questions that might be useful:
- Does love require you right now to drop your pride and speak the words of union your hurting heart wants you to speak? Or does love require you right now to accept it’s time to let go of someone you love? Or does love require you right now to take no action, trusting all is in Divine order? Or does love require you right now to be brave enough to begin a difficult conversation without knowing the outcome?
- Does love require you right now to apologize to someone currently in your life, someone you’ve hurt? Or does love require you right now to accept an apology from someone currently in your life, someone who’s genuinely sorry and in pain because they’re doing their best to repair your connection and you haven’t found a way to forgive? Or does love require you right now to take no action, trusting all is in Divine order?
- Does love require you right now to reach out to someone from your past, taking responsibility for something you did or did not do that brought pain to the other person? Or does love require you right now to reach out to someone from your past, apologizing for taking so long to understand your role in your now-dormant relationship? Or does love require you right now to take no action, trusting all is in Divine order, feeling your reaching out could quite possibly bring more pain to that person instead of the healing you desire to bring?
- Does love require you right now to revisit your definition of love?
- Does love require you right now to take better care of yourself?
- Does love require you right now to love first and ask why later?
What does love require of me right now?
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