Everlasting Love

Everlasting love is fueled by love for everything

What sort of love lasts forever?

To answer this question I asked myself “What is love?”

I answered myself.

Love is an emotional investment and care for, and a deep and abiding emotional sense of responsibility, for the well being of something.

We usually think of “love” as:

• Helping someone or something
• Warmth
• Understanding
• Caring
• Affection
• Deep concern
• Giving attention
• Being in tune or in sync with someone or something …

Love is active, not passive

If somebody asked you “Why do you love [ add noun here ]?” and you replied “I feel deeply responsible for them” such a response may very well be met by a puzzled or amused look, especially against the back-drop or context of individualism and the social mores of everyone being responsible for oneself.

But consider that:

• A parent is responsible for her / his baby and child.
• A child may feel responsible for her / his parents.
• A teacher feels responsible for their students.
• The head of State feels responsible for the citizens.
• We are all responsible for looking after Planet Earth and its resources.

Let’s look at some other words.

CARE — have regard for the happiness and well-being of another and / self / nature & the environment

RESPONSIBLE — a feeling of wanting to actively care for or do something positive for self and/ or the “other”.

EVERLASTING / ETERNAL — never-ending and omnipresent

If you think that being responsible means feeling obliged or tasked to do something, even if you really don’t want to do it, then it is a charge or task that you levy upon yourself.

The fee paid is that you are not being responsible for asserting your true feelings and wants or needs. You could have taken the road of feeling responsible because you wanted to do the something, and that would have brought the satisfaction of completing what you wanted to do.

You may expect something in return, for example, you go to work and put in so many hours of your labor in exchange for a regular salary; but to resent your responsibilities because you don’t much like the task(s) you have been given or some other aspect of the job, means you are working conditionally.

You are not giving it your “all” because you are holding back, as your work is dependent upon the level of return. If you do your work to the best of your ability, without attachment to great expectations, you will be happier.

To demand love or to lavish care upon someone else, and let them wear you out or attack you, and perhaps not return any care, is a manifestation of weak boundaries. Love in its purest form essentially requires self-love.

If you look at responsibility as a “charge” or a “duty” this is okay, as long as you accept this charge 100 percent willingly and with 100 percent grace.

GRACE — the acceptance of positive influence through Source or divine energy / cosmic consciousness, which comes from trust in something that unites us all, which will provide the assistance that you need.

This brings us back to that word “love.”

Love is to willingly have regard for the happiness and well-being of someone / something through a deep and abiding emotionally attached active care, with positive influence for all, from divine source.

I think that for any love to be never-ending and omnipresent, it has to be part of a greater love for the whole, because we are all inextricably interconnected.

This is agape love or Universal love, based upon your motivation and understanding of all.

What goes around comes back, e.g. the beating of a butterfly’s wings has an effect on the other side of the world.

We feel that we can’t love bad things that happen, but we can love the lessons learned, the spirits of those involved, or what causes the resurrection of something after a challenging event, all parts of the events perceived as “bad.”

This type of love is never-ending because it has always existed and can always be tapped into, and can be applied to every single situation or being that you come across.

In this way, Love is always there, for if we love everything, then we have the power to discriminate what is positive or helpful, and to find knowledge and experiences and to get help, and this love is used to perpetually love and care for our loved ones.

We can draw from the field of potential to power up our loving responses. If you are closed to all that there is to love, your “gifts” that you use to love your beloved ones may be impeded.

From the very start, open up your heart, Be a lasting part of everlasting love. Real love will last forever.

An excerpt from “Everlasting Love”