I Am Here To Love You

If I were to ask you to imagine the most comforting words anyone could ever say to you, what would they be?

I thought I’d try asking that for myself and what I finally came up with was simply, “I am here to love you.”

Close your eyes for a moment and allow yourself to hear those words spoken to you.

I am here to love you no matter what – no matter how much you resist or deny – no matter how often you run away from my love or create fanciful stories of unworthiness and dramatic mistakes. I am here to love you because it is my privilege and honor and greatest joy to do so.

Yep, that would be pretty comforting.

With each revolution I take around this sun, I grow more and more assured that those words are undeniably true.

I am here to love you.

My understanding of the benevolent energy of this magnificent being we label as God is of a presence who created me for It’s pleasure – the pleasure to bestow upon me gifts of unlimited possibility.

Like a scene from a movie where a wise teacher stares into the eyes of a student and says, “You can be whatever you decide to be,” so is Divine Presence staring through all our self-imposed doubt, shame and fear and seeing only our greatest potential. That kind of love is incapable of seeing anything else.

So, what I could imagine as the most comforting words in my world to be, are, in my level of understanding, actually real.

What do I do with that?

Two things; accept or deny it.

I once read the phrase, “The evidence is in and you are the verdict.”

The evidence that we are here to be loved and championed and to create through the use of our beliefs and practices would be prevalent enough in the courtroom of our heart if we stuck with testament of merit. Testament of merit would remind us that we are operating at the most optimum level of our current understanding. This understanding can only grow wiser and richer with repeated testimony.

Testament of merit tells the story of how you stumbled and failed yet got back up again; how you lost that job, lost that money, fell into the trappings of life pain expressed through addiction and despair yet are still showing up, still seeking, searching, trying - moving forward even if only immeasurably so. Testament of merit speaks of your journey having children and the way your dreams for them did not materialize, yet, you are still unwilling to break that bond of hope, even if it must stay in the confines of your own heart and mind. Too, testament of merit reminds you of all the things you classify as victories, – the accomplishments and milestones – perhaps offering them in a way in which you were never able to fully grasp there long term effect. This form of testimony is forever taking place in hopes that some sweet moment our ears will be tuned to hear it.

The evidence is in - I am here to love you.

The verdict – you will always be worthy of it.