“All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.” – John Lennon/The Beatles
We’ve become so busy in our lives. We’re always running here or there, we’re responding to numerous electronic devices, we’re bombarded with multiple stimuli at all times and stressed to the max. It’s easy to see how we can sometimes forget the simple, yet powerful message written in these lyrics.
Despite the fact that it’s Valentine’s Day, I’m not talking about romantic love. I’m talking about a deeper and more meaningful and profound kind of love. The kind of love that is universal. The kind of love that encourages us to reach out and help one another, to be kind to ourselves and each other, to share what we have with another. The kind of love that heals. The kind of love that resonates so deeply and profoundly that people everywhere can’t help but notice and sometimes have their lives transformed by it. The kind of love that sets forth a ripple in the water.
This kind of love is the love allows us to comfort someone who’s hurting, give a friend the benefit of the doubt, help someone in their time of need, offer a smile to a stranger.
It is this kind of love that gets lost in translation somewhere between a BFF and a TTYL message in a text.
It is the kind of love that has to be cultivated, the kind that has to be felt. The kind that demands we stop our busy-ness, stop our chronic electronic device checking, stop our insane schedules and just be in the moment, sharing that moment with others, with nature, with ourselves.
It is the kind of love that moves mountains and heals planets.
I ask you, to take a moment on this day of love and see if you can connect with this love and find an expression of it that matches how you feel it.
Love…it really is all you need.
