Love Lessons – 1 (Preparing space for Love to Grow)

Love’s lessons come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

Yesterday I said that one of the first things that happens in your relationship with Love is that tears flow to wash away each blemish but others that you hold onto remain. Love wants you to let go of them all, so that you can have the best relationship. Love will not force you to do anything, but show you through others, or through activities when you least expect it. Again when you are shown you will be surrounded with a ‘peace cloud’ and afterwards illuminated by your illumination. Naturally Love teaches you step by step and of course in the correct order for your personal needs. My first lesson came in the garden:

There I was on my knees, trowel in hand ready to plant my new acquisition of impatiens (or ‘impatience’ as I call them) in other words ‘Busy Lizzies’. I was so excited to be adding colour to a garden that had been winter for so long, so impatient was I that I bought the plants before I had prepared the ground, but I had them now and  they would be planted! One by one I started to pull out the weeds to make place for the new plants. This was taking so long that I decided to speed the process up by grabbling handfuls, only to see that the roots were being left behind, so I returned to the slow process and mentally worked on my impatience, telling myself that it would mean less work for the future if I did a good job now. After what seemed like an age, all was clear and ready to be planted with beautifully brightly coloured flowers.

Throughout this whole process, Love was whispering:

“Do you see?” Well at first, I didn’t see at all, because there were too many weeds in the way for me to plant the beauty, but with each weed, things became clearer. As I pulled out the weeds individually, there was little or no resistance, in my hand was the whole weed and root system, never to return. When I was impatient, trying to get rid of the rubbish faster, there was resistance and much of the root remained, ready to raise it’s head another day, which I didn’t want. Now that all of the rubbish was out of the way, I was free to introduce the Busy Lizzies to flourish in their newly prepared bed. If you leave the weeds where they are they will just drink all the water grow stronger and strangle the flowers.

You see it is the same with Love. You need to clear out the rubbish before Love can truly blossom. This is not something to be rushed, it is something that takes time and dedication, but it is worth working on and waiting for. Love will not force you, Love will just show you where the rubbish is and if you want Love to flourish, Love will help you to remove it, slowly, gently and wholly so that you can get on and cherish your new relationship to the full. If you leave the rubbish there, it will take away your strength as you fight it, it will grow stronger and strangle your relationship with Love. Weed it out, let Love grow.

Proverbs 24:32 – “I applied my heart to what I observed; and learned a lesson from what I saw.”

With Love from Romania x

Love Hurts (The Lie!)

Many of us look for love in others, sometimes we find it, but until we find our own love, that love (person) is something that can hurt us, really hurt us. That love is not the real Love that I speak of. That love it’s great when we have it, but if we depend on it and it goes away, we are lost. That is when we send our own Love deeper than it was before. That is when we start to believe that there is no Love, that is when we believe that Love hurts, but it doesn’t. That is a lie spread about by those who don’t want us to find Love.

Much of my life, I believed that Love hurts. But that wasn’t Love. It was the way that I was feeling, because I didn’t know Love. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those who doesn’t have sad feelings, believe me I stopped watching the daily news because I cried so much, but it wasn’t love that hurt me. Love protects me, Love heals me and sustains me. When I am sad, it is Love that is grieving at the sight of so many people who don’t know Love living in such pain, because of others who don’t know Love. It is seeing so many people blaming Love for their pain. It is knowing that it should be so much better and could be, if only people would look for Love instead of just scratching the surface and then giving up or worse, not looking at all.

I said it before and I will say it again, “Love is worth finding.” Does finding Love mean that your life will be lovely like living in La-La-Land? No, it doesn’t, but once you find it, it does mean that you can stand up on your own two feet, without the ‘need’ for others to affirm you and face the world with confidence in the assurance that you are doing what you are doing for the right reasons.

As new born babies, we are born full of Love. We expect nothing, we need so much and we just trust that our needs will be met. Thankfully in the majority of cases our needs are met and we grow to be independent adults. During that growing period, we are fed, but not always the right formula. The formula that we need is Love mixed with Love, but unfortunately as is the world, we are fed with so much other stuff that our Love gets diluted until sometimes we don’t even know that it exists. It does! Nothing can extinguish Love, nothing. Love is there in every human being!

Who said; “What a load or rubbish?” No, I didn’t believe this either, I believed the lie that Love was just a feeling and Love hurts. Why? Because it has been hidden; hidden by greed; by money; by hate; by power; by any number of things. Sometimes Love is hidden by accident, sometimes by design, but have faith Love is there. “If you can’t see it, you’re not looking hard enough.” That’s what I was told. Love was standing right there in front of me, but the lies had hidden it from my view.

Look harder, dig deep, find Love.

Romans 8:38-39 – I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the Love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

With Love from Romania x

To be continued……………..

Over two years!

I can’t believe it’s over two years since we last met! What has been going on?
For me, I know that School of Ministry took a lot of time, but praise God, success in completion and graduation (or not, more on that by request).
We have also had a very successful two years of English Holiday Club with over 500 students, all sponsored by our volunteers, our school and mayor. “Be there or be square!” is the tagline devised by the students.
Oh, and soooooo much more.
Speak soon
With love from Romania x