Happy Valentine’s Day! This is often the most anticipated and dreaded day of the year. Much anxiety and stress is created around this day. Are you buying the right gift? Is it too big, too small, too expensive too cheap? Does it say the right thing? Does it strike the right note? Are you going to the right restaurant for dinner? Can you get a reservation? Do you have the right outfit? What was that gift again?
Then there are those who boycott Valentine’s Day due to what they call the “commercialization” of LOVE. You hear them grumble and fight about everything. You can’t tell them when to show LOVE, how to show LOVE, or who to LOVE. And you definitely can’t tell them how much to spend. They walk around like the Ebeneezer Scrooge of Valentine’s Day.
And finally there are those who choose to be sad or depressed because they feel that they are not loved, cannot love or do not deserve LOVE. It is enough to make one doubt the benefit of celebrating this day.
Let’s all just breathe, take a step back and look at the metaphysical significance of Valentine’s Day. It is the one day of the year that most of us, as one collective consciousness is focused on LOVE. So how can we take full advantage of this day?
First, let’s define what love is. In The Revealing Word by Charles Fillmore , he says, “LOVE is the power that joins and binds in Divine harmony the universe and everything in it; the great harmonizing principle known to man.“ And, according to the Unity website, the spiritual faculty of LOVE “looks past appearances to behold the Truth of being. It is LOVE that enables us to live in harmony with our universe. It is love that heals, prospers, attracts, holds and makes real the good ideas. And divine love is the greatest power for protection in the universe.”
So let’s focus on LOVE for what it truly is, the most healing and harmonizing force in the universe. You see when you give a gift with the Intention of expressing Divine love, then size doesn’t matter, the amount doesn’t matter neither does how you give it matter. Because whatever the gift is, the receiver will feel the unifying power of love compassion and kindness.
When you are expressing love as your Authentic Self then whenever, however, and whomever you express that love to will see past the trappings of commercialization to the sincerity of the love you have to share.
And, when you remember that you are one with the Divine LOVE of the Universe, you will no longer feel alone and will recognize that not only are you worthy of love, but you are love.
So, as one collective consciousness lets celebrate this day by focusing on it through the lens of our Authentic Selves and spread what we seek most in this world…True and Unconditional LOVE.
Today’s Affirmation:
“I Am a radiating center of Divine Love. “
~Rev. Drea
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