Short Story: The reachingness of love. Love always reaches you (fiction)
@innertalks (21918)
Australia
January 20, 2022 7:24pm CST
The Jesuit Priest, Father Tony Melonclod, had just written a new book, which he had entitled, as so:
"The reachingness of love, is infinite"
In his introductory remarks, he had offered these words of explanation, as to what he had meant by his title.
"The reachingness of love into you depends on your openness to not blocking it from your thoughts of trying to live alone, selfishly so, and love comes alive in you, when you live the shared connected life with others."
"Love has long arms, infinitely so, and it can reach from God into any corner of his creation at will."
"It will reach you wherever you are, and in fact, it has never left you, and is right by your side even now."
"So, reach out to love, and let it reach into you from its position all around you, as it is your own freedom of choice to let love both in and out of yourself too."
"This book endeavours to show you how to do this even more than you are doing now, because most of us block some of the love both incoming to us, and outgoing from us too. And so we are usually not living fully from love."
"Let your heart guide, and lead your mind, not the other way around."
Then, he finished up his introductory remarks with this Senryu poetry piece:
Senryu: Love
God's love reaches all
Love reaches out to you too
Allow that love in!
With that introduction, the rest of his book seems like that it would be well worth the read too.
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Where love is concerned, we should not become a statue of rock, but allow love into us to melt our hearts into God, so we are then one with God too.
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@RasmaSandra (79892)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Jan 22
If you leave your heart open to love and keep to your faith we will always feel the love of the Lord, I went out today after a long while staying in, I felt tired after my walk and going to the store but I was glad I had the stamina to do it and I came home and the first thing I said was thank you Lord for giving me the strength to do that and getting there safely and back home
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@innertalks (21918)
• Australia
21 Jan 22
Yes, it is hard to trust these days to go out and to come back safely, but we should try to do it at times, and leave the outcomes up to God's love, by praying both before, and after, we do such a thing.
We can get down, just staying in our houses, and we need to reach out of ourselves to at least go outside of our house sometimes too, in these very trying of times too.
I went out this morning to the Post Office, but I was also happy when I got back home safely too.
@innertalks (21918)
• Australia
21 Jan 22
Yes, or does love more conquer all, by not conquering all, but by just loving, and forever just being itself?
@innertalks (21918)
• Australia
21 Jan 22
@Kandae11 Yes, I cannot argue with that, and I agree with that.
I was just being "clever" with that saying.
Love does not puff itself up with itself to try to best people.
Love conquers all just by being itself.
We should do the same thing, as when we are our real selves, our true self, we will conquer all of our own doubts then too.
@Kandae11 (55035)
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21 Jan 22
@innertalks l interpreted it as - with love in our hearts the world would be a better place.
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@Shiva49 (26684)
• Singapore
21 Jan 22
Love is sublime and without borders but we tend to be miserly with it hiding it within ourselves or not even being aware of it.
When love overflows our being, existence, this blessed world will take on a new meaning uplifting all our lives.
Greed should be substituted with love as the end-all of our existence. We are just extensions of God then doing his bidding.
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@innertalks (21918)
• Australia
22 Jan 22
Yes, we do tend to be miserly with love, as we all have so much more to give out.
Maybe we are afraid to empty love's barrel in our hearts, but the incoming supply/flow of love, from God, is always greater for us than the outgoing supply/flow can ever be.
We should try to remember that.
@innertalks (21918)
• Australia
23 Jan 22
@Shiva49 The Jewish religion claims that we have two souls, a pristine heavenly inspired one, and an animal one, that we acquired after Adam and Eve sinned.
We must not just live from our animal soul, here, but live from our heavenly soul, always linked into God, and into our hearts, whereas our animal soul is more linked into our body, mind, emotional based, and ego selves.
The choice is ours, but if we continually choose love, over all of those lesser forces, like greed, pride, and lust, all will always be well for us, in our lives.
@Shiva49 (26684)
• Singapore
22 Jan 22
@innertalks Yes, the most potent force is sadly under utilised.
Maybe, we need to go through a thorough cleansing to get latched on to love leaving behind the vestiges of our wayward ways.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
21 Jan 22
another great piece! love this one!
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@innertalks (21918)
• Australia
22 Jan 22
Thanks, Scott. My writing reached into you with itself then...lol...
@innertalks (21918)
• Australia
23 Jan 22
@DocAndersen Thanks, for your encouragement of my writing here, Scott
@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
22 Jan 22
@innertalks in fact you did pal - you do often!
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