Seeking light and always love

Analogies for life lessons are everywhere and how blessed we are when we can see them right before our eyes.

I have a morning habit of opening all the blinds in the back of the house. It doesnt matter if its still pitch black out before the sun comes up. I'm always seeking the light and the sun of a new day to come filtering in the windows of our house.  And I'm also always seeing the light of the Son to come filtering into the windows of my soul and fill my heart with His love.   

We also have a habit of turning our hibiscus plants in front of the slider every few days.  They too need the sunlight and we want them to bask in it equally on all sides.

When I came down this morning and opened the blinds I could see the hibiscus leaning toward the sun, seeking that light and knew it was time to turn the plants. 

I was also thinking about the day ahead and the excitement of celebrating a beautiful mass and the grace that my beloved and I have of being part of a ministry of cantors at a very specal Divine Liturgy during a retreat weekend.

And I was getting excited to also be seeing later today a group of amazing ladies that I was blessed to share a retreat with last month. I fell in love with the team on the spot and then the ladies on the weekend.

And I was thinking about my faith and how is the cornerstone of my life and being, it is part of the fabric of who I am. I can't and I wont ever separate it from who I am.

I don't expect everyone to believe as I do, or to share so openly as I do about my faith and my love for Jesus whom I can do nothing without.  But I do expect the same mutual respect that I extend to others for thier beliefs, opinions and perspectives.  And i'm okay if I don't get it because my beliefs are not tied into anyone elses opinon of me.   

But like my seeking for the light and the Son, the hibiscus seeking for the sun to nourish and grow, I am also always seeking for the LOVE.  Because I still believe that despite the many differences that exist in this world and all the rancor and the discourse, that LOVE prevails.  

I witness love at every retreat, I witness love in the random sharing of strangers encouraging one another on thier health journey as so many who reached out to me yesterday after a vulnerable sharing, I witness love all over the place.  It fills my heart, overwhelms me and makes my capacity for love even stronger.

Life lessons are everywhere and today, I am grateful that I can see love even when it's not right before my eyes, I can always see and find it, because it resides in my heart.