Everything is Love
Dear Mikey & Vanessa,
Your relationship with yourself is your primary relationship because wrapped up in it is your relationship with the Holy Spirit, Love. I know it sounds cliche or cheesy, but you truly cannot love anyone until you love yourself. Love is embodied as you and in how you relate to others, recognizing that divinity is in them also. Everything is Love.
God is love. God is life. God is change. One of my favorite books, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler puts it like this:
“All that you touch, you change
All that you change, changes you.
The only lasting thing is change.
God is change…
God cannot be resisted or stopped, but can be shaped and focused”
God is all there was, is, and is to come. Each one of us is a part of God, a part of the Divine having its expression. If God is all there is, there is nothing that exists outside of God. That has been the most important realization of my life. There is nowhere in the universe that I can go where I cannot be reached by the love of God. It is all that is, yet closer to you that your next breath. God lives in your heart and you exist within the presence of love. Right now. This is a truth you can access now. This truth makes you free and unafraid of any form of death. What is death when you live within the infinite field of unconditional love. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God. I believe the essence of the gospel, the good news, is that we are the word of God. Being Christ-like is to live, move, and have your very being in love. Love of God, love of self as an emanation of God, and love of others because you see your sacredness reflected in their eyes. As you’ve already seen in your life, everyone does not walk in that knowing. It took me years, observing devotion in many faiths to arrive unshakably at this knowing. I hope that, by affirming that you are an emanation of unconditional love now, you will walk in your authenticity, power, and sovereignty sooner.
All my love,
Titilayo
