Today is Valentine’s Day. Everyone always focuses on romantic love this day. However, for me, especially this year, I think it should be a day to celebrate all love. As I have been struggling to understand the universal connection that exist among everything, I realize that it isn’t this elusive force that can only be describe in ambiguous terms, I believe that the force that connects all of us is simply love.
When I met my husband, I felt like my life changed. I literally feel like I am a completely different person from before I met him. It feels like there was my life before him and then my life after I met him. The difference is the love that entered my heart and spirit. It completed me in such a way that I will never be the same again. I didn’t understand that love could do that until I met him. Then when my father died, I realize that the love my father had for me didn’t die when he passed away, my connection to my father lived on in my heart. I am struggling to understand it, but somehow the love that we share in our lives touches other people and other things and it lives on and it gets passed on. It connects us to every one in the past and will connect us to every one in the future. When we die, no matter what happens, there’s no reason to be afraid because that connection will always live on. I’m not sure how it works, but I don’t need to know. I just need to have my faith in God and His love for me.
It comes from the same place that I know I can have a personal relationship with God and yet know all the billions of other human beings can also have deep personal relationships with the same God at the same time, too. He connects all of us. I am filled with this amazing sense of gratitude when I realize that I am not just a spirit inside of this physical body, but instead my spirit is connected to everything in the heavens and on earth and beyond within all of time and space and it is all possible because of God.
So today, I say a prayer for thanksgiving to God for His love and for all the love that connects all time and space and all my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
