A great blog post from one of my favorite bloggers, Mastin Kipp.
http://thedailylove.com/your-job-is-to-love/
Your job is to love.
Love is an action, a choice. Love is not really an emotion.
To Love someone is to choose to show up to be devoted to The Divine through that person.
So often in life these days we think that Love is easy or that Love
only feels good, but that is not the full extent of what Love is –
especially relationship Love.
People think that relationship Love is something that must mask your
true feelings, it must always be a euphoric high of some kind or that
Love must be a trade.
But that’s not what Love is.
Love is a constant offering to serve to Heart of the person you are
in a relationship with. Love is a constant surrendering of your
protective ego, so that the Heart can open even more and show you the
unknown beauty of its depths.
Love transcends language, religion and belief systems. Love is the
deepest gift that we could ever be given by someone and it’s the
greatest gift that we could ever give ourselves.
Love is not a trade. Love is not a power trip. Love is not some
grandiose expression of infatuation. Love is a humble and subtle power
that guides us to grow into titans of giving.
Love asks us to see beyond the fear of our partner, to dive deeper
than their ego would want us to and to not leave, even when all that is
triggering us wants us to run.
Love shows up when fear is present and asks for more… Love is bigger,
Love is brighter, Love is more powerful than any other force in the
Uni-verse, because at the core of every cell in the Uni-verse is the
deep yearning and desire to Love and be Loved.
Love does not march in with pomp and circumstance. Love whispers.
Love silently beckons us to get over ourselves so that we can see the
beauty that lay within us and every other sacred soul.
We were not sent to judge, for judgment is just a request for Love.
We were sent to Love the parts of ourselves and the world that lack it.
We were sent to be the Love in the seeming void of Love.
We, indeed, are the answer. No one is coming, for we have already come.
Our job is to wake up to Love and then be it.
Our job is to Love.