Dear Friends,

Here I sit at my computer a few days before Valentine’s Day.  In the spirit of the Day I want to write each of you a love letter.  The kind of love I am sending you is the same kind of love God first sent to us – Unconditional Love with no strings attached.  I do not love you because of all that you do or how much you care about the various aspects of your life, although I appreciate your devotion to life. So why do I love you? – because you are who you are in God.  What a joy it is to watch as God unfolds in your life!

Remember the quote, “Which comes first the chicken or the egg?”  It fits with what I am writing to you, but with one major change.  I know which came first between your actions or who you are in God.  It is found in who you are in God.  By doing your spiritual work of growing closer to God one sees the gift of who they are in God.  As that happens for a person they begin to think all things are possible.  They believe in themselves.  They tap into the Source of all that they do – God.  One can begin to see why it is so important for an individual to make sure one’s spiritual life comes first.  The last ingredient in this process is for a person to come to know God’s Voice and God’s Faithfulness.  So many voices in today’s world call us to do this or that.  So many voices tell us we could never do what our heart desires.  So we listen and stop ourselves before we begin.  But those who have been open to God, they know the sky is the limit.  I send you my love in celebration of your awareness of God in your life.  

Have you seen God’s Love and felt It in your life?  How about the spirit which is growing in our world?  Have you noticed how more and more people are getting on board with this idea of being one in God?  Have you seen the joy in people’s faces who believe in unconditional love?  Have you seen the laughter and willingness to respond to needs of those around us who see God as there reason of being?  God continues to fill us with ideas of how we can not only grow in our spirit, but also help others to become aware of God’s Spirit growing in them.  Such insight of the way life is becomes like a snowball building and building as it rolls down the hill of life.

I love you.  I love this awareness.  Most of all I love God.  What more needs to be said?  What more needs to be done?  Living in love opens up life to us in the fullest.  We can now celebrate the good times and hold each other in the bad.  We can encounter new life and let go of what needs to die.  As an old Beatles song once said, “Love is all there is.”  Even more powerfully the Apostle Paul said, ” All things will fall away one day, but love will remain.”

My love to you,

Gary