Love Created Me Like ItSelf

"Love created me like ItSelf." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 67

"Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 256, Lines 7-8

"Love is incapable of asking for anything." -- A Course in Miracles; Preface xi

A dear friend and client of mine has been wrestling with love, wanting love, fearing love... all as if it is something outside, something to be acquired. I know this story very well, as I suspect we all do. And I have suffered, as we all have, when I look at love as commodity... something to be given, or something to be acquired. Thank God we are so very wrong. Thank God we have only to give our vision a moment to clear, and Love simply IS.

Love has nothing to do with our human notions of the word. Love is the unmoving, unchanging, and infallible Principle in which we live and move and have our very Being. It is the Ground of Being, and cannot be lost or lacking in any way. It is omnipresent and omni-everything! God IS Love.

We are emanations of that Love, created in Love's image and likeness. We don't have any qualities distinct from Love. Like a snowflake, we can be viewed individually, with unique patterns and individual gifts that reflect the Love we are... but like the snowflake, we are still snow, still Love ItSelf.

I love the thought that Love is incapable of asking for anything. How could it ask when it already Is? Ha! A little clarification... when Jeshua ben Joseph told us to ask, he was urging us to self-inquire, to question the world around us, to go deeper and find what is Real and True behind the illusion that we call the world. He was always speaking about inquiring in consciousness... never about asking for things in the outer, which is the projection we are dreaming.

So in this holiday season of thanksgiving, love, peace, and goodwill, it is our joy to BE... we are the love we have been seeking. After all, Love created me like ItSelf.

"There is no love but God's." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 127