Love Collage created by V. Padley
It has been so long since I posted here that I have nearly forgotten how to! I have been writing up a storm and my work have been seen mainly on http://www.thevoiceforlove.com community page and can be found at Fearlessly Female Magazine. But, for reasons unknown I feel like posting again here. There is no perfect “first post after years gone walkabout” quite frankly and this one will no doubt fall a bit flat. But that is OK! I have given myself permission to write, as Anne Lamott says, “a shitty first draft (post)”.
Yesterday I started reading the book”Ten Poems to Change Your Life” by Roger Housden I’m already a fan (he had me at Mary Oliver’s “The Journey”). It got me to thinking, what are ten qualities of Love that will change your life. If you could only have ten (out of the infinite qualities available). What would they be.
Here are mine and I’d love to hear yours:
1. Forgiveness (without this I wouldn’t even get up in the morning)
2. Innocence (all thoughts, people, situations, governments, pain is totally & completely pure, holy, true)
3. Acceptance (this is where the rubber meets the road; it is: i notice it; i feel better)
4. Beauty (it is all beautiful but how delicious we get to notice and feel all the flavors of beauty)
5. Clarity (who, what when, where, why, does it hurt…..ie answers, guidance, revelation….whew!)
6. Strength (power, immanence, majesty, wholeness all in one neat package)
7. Peace (spacious, free, open, still, quiet, relief)
8. Joy (happy, delicious & bubbling, pouring forth the delight we are made of)
9. Comfort (yummy, cozy, gentleness meets you exactly where you are)
10. Truth (now IS eternal)
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