Try to go back to sleep!
I tried. An hour later and still wide awake I decided to go to my home office and write. So here I am sitting at my desk with my laptop open.
Now what?
Allow it to flow, Joseph … allow it to flow. Remember, this is the title you gave to your blog: Gentle River Flow.
Alright! The three words are these: “Absolute Unconditional Love.”
A certain feeling arrived with the three words, the feeling of being loved. That’s nice but what in the world do I do with three words? What do I say; what do I write? Where did the feeling of being loved come from? What is the source of this feeling? Was someone in my bedroom projecting love to me? Did a being of great light stand in my bedroom projecting love toward me? Did an angel visit me?
Settle yourself, Joseph. Be kind, and don’t reject the feeling. Flow with it; allow love to embrace you.
Unconditional love; absolute unconditional love. This is what embraced me at 2 o’clock in the morning today. The word “what” does not express my feeling. It is better said with the word “who”. Who could possibly embrace me with absolute unconditional love? Who but God: All that Is; the Ground of All Being; the Great I Am; the Beginning and the End; the Alpha and Omega – Who I have learned to call “My Heavenly Father”. This experience is very personal, not abstract nor unidentifiable.
God is Love; that’s good. It is short, very concise. No argument there. But more: God is absolute unconditional love. Let everything else that I may say about God, let it flow from these three words: Absolute Unconditional Love. But not only what I say about God, but also what I say about me … let everything that I say about me begin with this foundation, that God is absolute unconditional love. This sort of love erases everything negative. My mouth becomes suddenly silent when I desire to put myself down, and for that matter, when I try to put another person down. Wow! This takes away my breath. I am near speechless!
Three words can lead to things quite grand and endless. I’m thinking here of words such as infinity and immortality! My thoughts begin to fly toward possibilities and potentialities. What am I reaching for? What am I trying to express? Why do three words – absolute unconditional love – set in motion thoughts of infinity and immortality, and possibilities and potentialities? I am being sparked with an energy that says very clearly that I am not small and insignificant, of little or no worth. I am, as you are, and as we all are, loved with absolute unconditional love.
Shall I reject such thoughts? Shall I tame the feelings I feel with self-limiting thoughts? Shall I inject things that belittle and dismiss absolute unconditional love? Shall I return to bed and go back to sleep?
If I allow it, what will happen to me with the acceptance of absolute unconditional love? Is a choice being called for? Am I being asked to do something or commit to something? What do I do with the three words given to me today at two o’clock in the morning? Where do I go from here? Is there more to the story than I presently understand or that I have received? How do I stay open to the presence of absolute unconditional love?
I don’t ever want to forget the experience of absolute unconditional love. It is both an experience and knowledge. What better way to be awakened from a deep sleep at two in the morning than three words appearing in my consciousness. I feel blessed; yes this is true … but more than this, I feel that I am being asked to do something with these three words. Writing what I have is a beginning.
I am, as you are, and as we all are, loved with absolute unconditional love.
– Joseph