Simplicity of Love

Waking up this morning, I found that I had realized the simplicity that is called Love. Not that Love is easy, actually it has cost me almost everything, but it should be simple. When you come from a foundation of Love, your decisions are already made, you don't have to grapple or wrestle over them. You do because you Love. Simple.

The kind of Love that I am speaking of is the love that makes the two one, makes the selfish give. It is not the kind of love that you have to "choose". You know what I'm saying, not the kind when you must say "I choose to love this person" or "I choose to act in a loving manner". You just love because that is what Love does.

I no longer have to choose to act or do a certain thing because it is the "right" thing to do, I do it because, flowing from Love, I have no choice. Love is the only course, the only path set before me, it just flows.

In my previous life, there was not that kind of love. I had to choose daily to act in love, or respectful, or kind, or giving, etc. It was because there was never the "oneness", the foundation of Love. The heart that overflows with Love and flows to the other was not there. It was complicated, exhausting. I told myself regularly, "don't say that, it wouldn't be nice" or "don't do that, it wouldn't be kind". Now if I ever choose to act unkindly or dishonoring, it's the same as being unkind or dishonoring myself. It isn't natural.

I now understand my relationship with my Savior, Jesus, better than I ever could before. I love Him because He first loved me. My love for Jesus flows from the foundation of His love for me. I understand now that I no longer need to perform to make Him happy, I now act from my heart of Love and He is pleased. It is not my right-ness, (righteousness), it is His. God sent His Son; Jesus gave His life for my sin. Now I walk with Him on the foundation of His right-ness. Simple, and wonderful!

Love to me is no longer a verb, something you do, it is now a person. I don't know how this kind of Love happened, it just did, it just was. I feel like I have found my home, whose foundation is Love. Simple. Blessed.