Many are calling this time a Great Awakening.

I’ve been wondering. Can we look at this as a gift? And step out of the fear? Maybe. For just a moment. If we stop. Now. To listen. To hear. To feel TRUTH. We will see the beauty unfolding. The love.

It may be that love is gently, or not so gently, suggesting that we change our ways. Change our relationships. Change our perspective.

Have you heard the birds singing? Become intoxicated by the vibrancy of the flowers?

Can we have the courage to open our hearts to the others that we have been “othering”? Bottom line, they want what we want. Love. And to be loved.

Can you feel the love in your neighbor’s smile? In the gift of vegetables from the garden?

Can we have the courage to open our hearts to ourselves? That is all we really want. Love. And to be loved.

But we are afraid. Afraid of not enough. Not enough in our checking account. Not enough in our pantry. Not enough in our hearts.

We hoard out of fear that we won’t have what we need.

But it is there. And it will be there. Because love never goes away. 

Our lover may leave. People will die. But love never does. The True source of love. Never leaves.

But we never knew this. We were not shown. Never taught. Never told. Because those to whom we were born were never shown. Never taught. Never told.

We are all being called to see. To know. That we are loved. We are lovable. We don’t have to do anything to prove it. And nothing we do can prove that we aren’t. 

When we see. When we know. The True Essence of ourselves and of every other being on this planet. We will know love. 

We can come to forgive ourselves. For not loving ourselves.

We begin to crack open. And that crack allows some light. Light that the seedling, the kernel of love, that has always lived within us, allows to grow. 

And when it has room to grow. There is enough food. And enough money. And enough love.

We aren’t hoarding out of fear anymore. We are trusting. And knowing. And loving. Ourselves.

And each other.

This is a Great Awakening. Let us not go back to sleep.