Architecture To Love

” I couldn’t hear love because I was never quite enough.
Fear doesn’t want you to hear what is said in the quiet because love and truth are there. So fear yells and jumps relentlessly like a desperate actor on an infomercial, but love is patient. Love waits until you are ready to tune out fear. When I was ready I could hear love speak, love said: Stop grabbing sweetheart. Breath, there is enough. I have created an abundance of acceptance, attention, recognition, joy, peace, money, energy, clothes, food, I will never leave you without enough. There is nothing to be afraid of. No feeling, No circumstance, No person. These things come and they go, and you can live through them. Without running, hiding, numbing or hurting another of my children. Did you know this, my angel?

There has never been anything wrong with you. Not one day in your life. You are exactly who you are meant to be, right now as you are.

Did you know this, my angel? There has never been anything wrong with you. Not one day in your life. You are exactly who you are meant to be, right now as you are. You are not to be ashamed. You punish yourself but you have no reason to be punished, you have done just fine. No one wants you punished, you can stop that now. You are free.

Now listen carefully, cause this is important; when you were born I put a piece of myself in you. Like, an inscrutable brilliant diamond, I placed a part of me, inside of you. That part of you, the very essence of you, in fact, is me. It is love, it is perfect and it is untouchable. No one can take it and you can’t give it away. It is the deepest, truest part of you. The part that will someday return to me. YOU ARE LOVE. You cannot be tarnished by anything you’ve done or that anyone else has done to you. Everyone carries this piece of me, this perfect love. You are all apart of me and I am part of you and you are apart of each other. The essences of each of you is love.

Your first job is to know that, to float and swim in this knowledge. To believe that the love, the spirit, the god in you and in everyone is equally brilliant and unmarked. Your second job is to help other people know about their brilliance, their essence, their perfection, their core which is perfect love. When they speak to you from there fear, speak past their fear and directly to their love. Their love will step forward, eventually. It’s one of my rules. Be patient. Do not worry. Come out of hiding, because you have these two jobs to do, be still and know, and then help others know.

Since you carry me with you, you know what to do. You always know the next right step. Be still and ask yourself, what would love do? Then get quiet and I inside of you will tell you. You will take the next right step. Love will reveal it’self one step at a time, the whole way home. “

By Glennon Doyle Melton
Carry on, Warrior