A Love Story

There is a moment I have experienced when the person who agitated my life to such an extreme that on occasion I’d think “boy, I could punch you” - magically becomes just a person.  A mysterious moment when they go from foe to neutral ... they become human and quite possibly lovable.

What happens in this moment?  How can my view shift so dramatically when they have not changed at all?

It’s the power of loving ourselves.  This is the secret ingredient for the bread that makes it rise and changes it from just bread to ambrosia ...

They don’t change.  We do.  Everything around us is only us... and a reflection of our own divine dilemma.

The moment we truly know this… everything shifts… in a single moment. That everything can shift in a single moment itself is mesmerizing to me. Crazy and beautiful.   

Years ago a friend introduced me to poetry by the Sufi poet, Hafiz.   Its was immediate love for me.   I've wondered why this was true.   I've realized it's because he saw the truth that life is only about this love story.  The love story between me and me... (and another way to view it) because we are only reflections of the divine, the light, it is ultimately the love story between me and the divine in me.  

No wonder movies, poems, songs, and everything talks of falling in love.

A Love Story

Yes our life is a love story
Only it’s between me and me
You only reflect me to me in a mirror so I can work through my self hate.

It’s just a simple love story
A love we’ve felt before and lost along the way

Way back when...
We turned outside for intimacy and safety
sacrificing divine love for the love of the humans near us
It was necessary at the time
these angels who gave us birth had lost their guidance
So we lost ours

It is always a love story
the characters change and play throughout our life, 
Until the moment we wake up
   and realize it was
      and always was
        only us.

   - Lori (June 2018)