What’s the one most important achievement you will make throughout all of earthly existence?
Many people look to the accumulation of fortunes, riches, and treasures as indicators of grand success.
Some people seek fame, recognition, and standing in their community.
Some people want to change the world through social reform and political activism.
But when it comes down to the last minute on earth, right before check-out, and you hastily gather up all you can to take with you down the pathway of progress, what will you have to show for your hard work and effort? It will be the love you lived and expressed, and only that love.
The fame, fortune, things purchased, position gained and position in society mean nothing as thought ascends Spiritward. What we find and discover in Love is what stays with us and remains. Living in love is the one most important achievement we can make on earth, and no other claim will surpass it.
Understanding the preeminence of love enables us to love our enemies, not fear injustice, stand strong when things look hopeless, and never cave to despair or discouragement. Why? Because when we have love, and accept the blessings of divine Love, we have everything. There isn’t anything the world can do to us to keep us from love and reflecting divine Love.
Jesus faced horrible persecution, but he kept on loving. He loved his way right into the kingdom of heaven, and said we had to do the same.
Nothing is more important than love.
When your husband keeps throwing his dirty socks on the floor, it’s no big deal compared to love in the home.
When your wife doesn’t put your tape measure back in the tool box, it’s no big deal compared to love in the marriage.
When your teenager flunks an important test…well, that is a big deal…but not as important as being patient, understanding, helpful and compassionate.
Love is the most important accomplishment of your day, your week, your year, your life!
Without love, everything else pales to nothing. Without love, everything else doesn’t matter much. Without love, what is there?
Love is everything.
Love is life. Love is joy. Love is happiness. Love is eternal life.
When you love, you have everything that is truly significant, substantial and important.
Live to love, and you’ll find yourself standing on the winner’s platform at the end of the race.
Live to love, and you’ll be the best you can be.
Love.
When you give real life examples like this, for me, it is far easier to apply the concepts and ideas you are teaching.I read one or 2 of these real life examples like you had in this blog and I can figure out how to apply these ideas to my own world. It becomes a springboard.
So, please please please do more of this!!!
A devoted reader.
Nice sentiments, Evan, but they don’t really fit for me. Given my background as a foster kid what is most important to me is getting free of the impact of early childhood trauma. Given my lived experience as a woman, what is also important to me is getting free of the social conditioning which has limited me in some ways.
Maybe this won’t be important to me on my deathbed, but it sure is now, and I have to go with what I’m being impelled to do.
One size doesn’t fit all. To try and make it fit all so often means some try to make themselves fit – which is oppressive.
Hi DrDee,
Aw, interesting response you have. I understand. But I’d like to suggest that in a deeper understanding of Love you’re going to find the freedom from childhood trauma that you seek. Time will tell!
Hugs,
Well said Evan. If we can be totally conscious of Living Love every moment, then we’ll really have something.
To the previous appender that unfortunately suffered trauma as a foster child, Living Love is the way out of that trauma. Try it and see.
Oh yes, I agree with the above..
I was one who was convinced my past was tattooed on me and unchangeable. But, each lesson in Love has removed many of those experiences from my thinking and life and continues to remove more.
It is so worth whatever it takes to learn the lessons of Love. They haven’t all come easily or quickly but one by one by one they have transformed me and washed away who I was convinced I was.
I am light years ahead in peace, satisfaction and contentment today because of the very little I have begun to understand about how to love. And, if you ask anyone who knows me they will tell you I am not the same person I was in the past and it’s all been change for the better.
There’s a little poem that starts something like this -‘I am the place where love shines through, He and I are one, not two…’ The wonderful realization of Love shining through me with no effort or doing on my part brought about the healing of discordant relationships and helped me to really understand what love is all about – we actually can’t stop God’s love from being expressed by us – and it is such a liberating experience – thanks Evan for your super blogs and the love which shines through you !
I am the place where God(Love) shines through, for God and I are one, not two. He wants me where and as I am. I need not fear nor fret nor plan. If I’ll just be relaxed and free, He’ll carry out His plan through me.
Thanks, Evan, for the hugs. I think you missed my point though, or probably I didn’t express it very clearly.
I’m saying that because of my earthly expressions, I’m likely to be thinking about the distance travelled from them, the freedom gained from limitations because of them – which may translate as achievements and success – on my death bed.
I might not be thinking of love or Love. I might instead be thinking of Spirit or Mind or Life or Power (following Joel Goldsmith and Carter Hayward), all more important metaphors for me than Love.
My point is that its not possible to generalise from your experience to everyone else’s. Well, clearly its possible, but its not valid. It can end up being about oppression rather than liberation and freedom because not everyone feels the same way as you do.
When I was a kid I was very dismissive of my foster mother’s regard for her (few) material possessions. Now I have far more understanding of what they might have meant for her as a woman from a poor background, and I’m not so dismissive.
Making meaning is a spiritual activity, but its also individual. Surely on my deathbed I’ll be thinking about what life has meant for me, which I’m confident will be quite different from what life has meant for you.
Blessings 🙂
Hi DrDee,
Oh yes, I agree with you completely. Everyone has their individual joys, lessons, needs, experiences and backgrounds that inform their perspective.
Thanks.
Evan, I agree with “A devoted reader.” This was extremely uplifting and practical at the same time. Thank you so much.