Given and Received

We have not been randomly chosen to be who we are. Although we have shared values and shared qualities of life, there are distinctions that God has given us that are unique to our personalities. It is the distinctive eternal light that shines on us and that we surrender to each day and each night; it is God’s Love. It is this love that we learn to share and to nurture all through our lives; it is our eternal guiding light of Love and Peace and Joy. It is what God is doing in this world . . . through us, with us, around us.

There are those who say that we are empty souls that will be filled by life’s experiences that will teach us and nurture us for the time we are on this planet. This is wrong! From the time we are conceived God has already a part of our souls filling us with Love and Grace and the Goodness that will carry us through our life and through eternity. We are filled with this Love at our physical birth, and we immediately share this with our mothers first.

This Love that God gives us grows within us, nurtures us through our lives, nurtures others as our Love is shown on the outside through our expressions of true friendship towards those we meet for we are destined to live together, for God has chosen us to live together, love together, cry together, and grow together. For as Paul writes to the Philippians: “Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do and the God of peace shall be with you. (4:9).”