October Offerings/Love is the First Thing

Photo: a serendipitous pigeon takes flight over the fountain at Bryant Park in New York City, two days before the dramatic flooding of Sept. 29.

Love is the force most lacking in society and in human beings today. Everything is done with other kinds of force, almost always too much of it. No man or woman or they stays close enough to themselves and their being-body, whether planetary, astral, or other, to be present to love as it is in this moment.

It’s always here; and yet it is the last thing we look for within ourselves when we begin in this moment.

Love ought to be the first thing.

Let us be clear about that; it’s the meal we should eat before we speak and before we act. It’s the antidote we should take before we begin to deliver our poison to others.

I say to you in the spirit of the prophets of old, as a proclamation, that you can live within the body of Christ within yourself, that you can acquire a new and different understanding of love.

But you cannot do this alone; you need love as a partner. And the difficulty is that we are accustomed to thinking, through our egos, that we will do everything ourselves.