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Do you take time to let your Love Shine?

When someone is down do you take the time to let the light of your love shine upon them… Or do you walk away telling yourself you don’t have time… or they won’t understand?

So many people are willing to express dissatisfaction with someone or something, but will ignore or overlook the opportunity to express love and affection.

Do you smile at people or remain expressionless as you catch their eye?

Do you offer a hug to those who will accept it?

I read an article that said people need a dozen hugs every day to be emotionally healthy… and maybe that’s what’s wrong with most of us… we don’t get those hugs… especially when they’re needed.

Do you find the time to surprise those you love with some expression of your love?

How do you let your love shine?

It’s worth thinking about…

Today is a day for blossoming wide
With my heart,
With my potential,
With all that I am.
Today is a day
To allow some chains to fall from me,
Chains that have kept me bound
To a particular lifestyle,
To a way of thinking and being

Parenting ensures one of the most difficult challenges this world has to offer, especially when it arises around the paradox of issue of attachment. Successful parenting is about loving our children, but most of us love them in a very attached way. On the other hand, it also requires that we let go of our children at the appropriate times, which means we must practice some level of non~attachment.

Many parents find this difficult because we love our children fiercely, more than we will ever love anyone, and this can cause us to overstep our bounds with them as their independence grows. Yet truly loving them requires that we set them free.

Attachment to outcome is perhaps the greatest obstacle on the parenting path, and the one that teaches us the most about the importance of practicing non~attachment.

I realized that my son is growing up and learning adult_things everyday just by the things he talks about.

One time, he came up to me and said: “Mommy you know what, when I grow up, I’m gonna have six kids, 5 boys and 1 girl. I’m going to work as a police_army_soldier, so that I can be able to protect you and my wife and kids. I want to be an Engineer so that I can build a big house for you…” – and he can’t and won’t stop talking about it.

Then it dawned on me, my son is growing up! He is thinking about grown-up things! He has a vision of who he wants to be and how his life will be when he grows up!

Soon enough, he will not be my baby young man anymore, but a grown-up adult capable of doing and deciding things on his own. This put a pinch of loneliness in my heart … but I have to accept it, he has to find his own way in this life.

He has to be strong enough to be able to face what life has to bring in his path. I, as his mother, have this responsibility, to equip him with wisdom and sensibility on how to get ahead in life. This strength I cannot give him if I will shelter him and protect him all the time.

I have to let him be exposed to life’s realities and harshness, but him knowing that I am and will always be behind him, beside him, before him … however and whichever he needs me to be.

We commonly perceive our children to be extensions of ourselves, imagining that we know what’s best for them, but our children are people in their own right with their own paths to follow in this world. They may be called to move in directions we fear, don’t respect, or don’t understand, yet we must let them go.

This letting go happens gradually throughout our lives with our children until we finally honor them as fully grown adults who no longer require our guidance.

At this point, it is important that we treat them as peers who may or may not seek our input into their lives. This allows them, and us, to fully realize the greatest gift parents can offer their offspring – independence.

Letting go in any area of life requires a deep trust in the universe, in the overall meaning and purpose of existence.

Remembering that there is more to us and our children than meets the eye can help us practice nonattachment, even when we feel overwhelmed by concern and the desire to interfere.

We are all souls making our way in the world and making our way, ultimately, back to the same source. This can be our mantra as we let our children go in peace and confidence.

disclaimer: this is not, in any way, a claim for expertise in parenting. It is just an honest opinion due to personal experiences …. Peace!!

@bitelnut, 2007

Is it possible …
To Feel his hands on you
That ran goose bumps all over your body;
To Feel his lips kissing yours with such ardor
That turned butterflies churning in your tummy;
To know the warmth of his body next to yours;
The strength of his shoulders as you lay your head on it;
The security of his tight embrace as he holds you
Even when he has never touched you?

Is it possible …
To hear his heartbeat
And plain knows that it beats only for you;
To Feel him — his very Feelings
What he Feels for you;
To Feel his ever consuming Love;
To be aware of his very presence
Even when he is miles away and
Across the sea from you? Is it possible …
To Feel so secure and at ease
As if you have known him all your life
As if you both are one and the same
Even when you have never heard him
Say your Name softly at night
And had never heard him
Whisper sweet nothings behind your ears?
Is it possible …
To Feel and experience
A Love with such Passion —
Something That Life could never have known
Even in its wildest dreams and imaginations?!
IF it could be possible,
Would you turn away in doubt and fear
Would you give in to apprehension and rationality
Thinking that the beauty and bliss could not be Real
Just because you have never known nor encountered
Such kind of experience before,
And you have never thought nor believed
Such kind of Love could ever exist?
But …
For this Love
I would be willing to take the risk
Even with the very probability of a broken heart.
For I have known
A lifetime of heartbreaks,
And I’ve learned along the way
That a heartbreak in itself
Is only of temporary nature
If I don’t dwell and muse on it for too long.
Thus, IF …
At that one very moment of my life,
On one unexpected occasion,
I will be given that one chance
To experience and Feel You
With such passion
With such Feelings
With such want
With such longing
With such need
With much thoughts
With much goodness
With much kindness
With much care
With enormous amount of Love.
I will give …
Myself entirely
All of me … To you.
For you
To make love to my mind
To stimulate my heart
To entwine with my soul
Without regret
Without sorrow
Without remorse.
I will set …
No boundaries
No walls
No guards
No hesitations
No resistance..
I will even …
Ignore all logic
Do away with rationality
No looking back
No holding back …
I will submit to You:
Your wants
Your needs
Your Love
Your soul
Your Life!

For I know that …
To deny such a Love
Would be
The most fatal of all mistakes!
To deny myself of Your Love
Would be
An injustice within itself
Into the name of Love.

And I believe that …
To have a Love based on a Spiritual
And Not a Physical beginning
Could only result
In the most Special of Loves.
The kind of Love that you wait for in a Lifetime.

A Love so Strong
That neither people nor race
Neither culture nor language
Neither religion nor knowledge
Neither time nor distance
Neither heaven nor earth
Could EVER Stop it from Being.

And that’s …
The Love for You and I,
The Love for always and forever,
The Love meant for eternal hugzZzZz.

@: bitelnut, 2006

Alone,

With only My thoughts to muse on

I think back through all the years

Searching for

You

All the lifetimes I lived

In search of Your

Love

How many times have I gotten close to

You

How close have I been in finding

You

I do know we have met before

But how many times?

Maybe our Eyes have been shadowed

That’s why we couldn’t See the

Truth

Until Now…..

But why only

Now?

So many questions

So few answers.

As I write,

Know that Words are powerful

They contain the

Energy

That My Soul is emitting towards

You

Let My written Words

Reach out to

You

And convey what My Heart wants to say.

Let My expressed

Words become pictures

In Your heart and mind.

I want You to

See Me

Feel Me

Touch My heart ….

As I paint

A beautiful portrait for Your

Soul

Take My hand and sit beside Me

I want to

Feel You

See You

Touch Your heart….

So that whatever is written here

Will be read in Our next lifetime together.

I searched for You

So many times

So many years

So many lifetimes

Was it all for

Nothing?

I think

Not.

In all My searches

Through all those years and lifetimes

I was making My Heart

Ready

To accept

You.

In the previous lifetimes

I never Looked

Into Your

Eyes

And Into the

Soul

Of Your being.

Was I afraid?

I think so

For when One gets that close to

Heaven

One can’t help but look

Away….

Are things any different this time around?

I think

Not

Because I am still afraid of the

Beauty

So if ever I’ll never

Look

Into Your Eyes

You’ll know

That the time for Us

Is Not

Yet…

Long ago, before this world we live in Existed

God held us up before His eyes.

He dreamed and conceived us in His heart.

Though there was only ONE …..

He spoke to us like we were two.

He said, "there will come a time when I will separate you."

And He added,   “Yet Don’t fear, my Beloved

For you will find your way back to each other,

At the right time

When you are ready

Then again you will be One.

I am doing this so you will

Learn the true meaning of LOVE."

I, or should I say, WE didn’t understand

What He was saying.

But I knew that if God was in it,

Then Everything would turn out right.

He told us He was going to create a new world for us.

A place where we will learn to love as He loves.

For some reason something popped in my mind that said

"You are My spiritual children."

As He was speaking to us

We could see changes in His countenance.

I just don’t know what 

But something was happening inside Him….

Suddenly in a voice that shook the foundations of heaven,

He spoke these words …….    "Let there be light."

I began to feel myself being pulled

Into the light He had created.

But not just pulled into it….

It was like I became a part of it.

At first I was scared ….

Because it dawned on me that I’m ALONE.

Then I heard this voice behind me say … “turn around”!

When I turned around

I saw something or someone that looked like me…..

Only much more Magnificent,

Even much more Radiant,

More beautiful than any angel I had ever seen.

As I looked at this Awesome Piece of Creation

I felt a burning sensation inside Me,

Peaceful, harmonious, joyful, euphoric, climactic ….

Was that LOVE?!

It must have been,

For never have I felt anything like it before.

I asked this creature….who are you?

And YOU said I am a part of You

Just as You are a part of ME.

And together … you and me …  WE are ONE.

Then God spoke to us into the light.

He said, “the time is near when I will separate you again.

I will place you on the Earth I created

And I will give you physical bodies.

It is through these bodies

That you will find each other again.

When you do find each other,

Each of you will know that yea …. this is the One.”

We didn’t know how much more time we have left,

But we knew we didn’t have much

For the Earth was complete …

We saw two Creatures that looked like us

Walking in a Garden but in physical bodies.

I wanted so much to touch this Magnificent Creation

That stood before Me.

So I reached out to touch You,

You reached out to touch Me at the same time.

But instead of touching each other,

We passed through each other.

As surprised as we were yet never giving up,

Having the same desires

Being One soul and mind,

We reached out for each other again.

Alas, this time, we really touched!

So I held you …… for the very first time,

And it felt so wonderful!

I haven’t held you for long

When I felt you slipping away from me ….

Then I knew the time had come.

As you were slipping away from me, I asked you:

How will I know if it’s YOU …. if you are the One?

And you said …….. you will SEE it in my EYES!!!

~~~ dedicated:

          To All the Hopeless Romantics such as Myself……

          To those who are Aspiring to be hopeless romantics;

          To those who think they’re Not Romantic,  yet not hopeless;

          Even to those who are just Plain Hopeless romantically …..

~~ To My SoulMate:

If YOU’re out there,

Somewhere,  in this Lifetime …

I pray this will find you and touch your Soul,

And lead you back to Me.

Let Me look in Your Eyes …. Eternally!

**special acknowledgement:

To Durl, the PrinceOfDreams, for the original ThoughT

To Lee, the BB, for the Mental Stimulations, Soulful Inspirations and Eternal HugZz ~~~