8 Miracles Of Love

As I find myself in a deeply companioning, heartening, and hearthing love and life relationship, I find myself exploring nuanced awareness and alchemy with love itself.

It’s insight that applies to this love, deeply — I believe insights, and acceptances, and offerings that I can have now at this phase of life that I couldn’t have had before. And it is insights shared and buoyed by said sweet companion.

And of course, love matters. Not only with partner, but with all the other expressions of life-giving and learning-giving ways.

Here’s the 8 miracles — four about capacity, and four about readiness.

It’s possible to have capacity for one of the miracles, and less for another. It’s also possible to have capacity, yet not have readiness. It’s possible to have readiness for some, yet not others. It’s also possible to have readiness, yet not capacity. When they both exist, well, thus gives rise to miracles — to something so life-giving.

1. The capacity to love another.
2. The readiness to love another.
3. The capacity to love self.
4. The readiness to love self.
5. The capacity to be loved by another.
6. The readiness to be loved by another.
7. To capacity to love life flowing.
8. The readiness to love life flowing.

When capacity (perhaps some growing baseline) meets readiness (again some baseline), then, I’m finding, love of a whole new level comes alive.

What sweetness. Thank you Dana. I love you and our life.

Now, I am a person that thinks such love. And celebrates it. I’m also a poet. My heart yearns for such simple expressions. And, I’m also a group process facilitator that believes such personal things also have place in the professional things. So, there is a pivot in these personal statements of love that can also be invited to explore values in groups. It could be love. Or respect. Or learning. Or authenticity.

Substitute love and your’ve got 8 powerful invitations. Eight astute practices. Eight life-giving questions. For example…

1. The capacity to be authentic with others. (How might we improve our authenticity with others?)
2. The readiness to be authentic with others. (How could be improve our readiness for authenticity with others?)
3. The capacity to be authentic with self. (What would become more available to us and our work through added authenticity with ourselves?)
4. The readiness to be authentic with others. (In what ways might we add readiness to our own authenticity?)
5. The capacity to welcome authenticity from others. (What would it take for us to welcome more authenticity from others — our partners, our customers, our staff?)
6. The readiness to welcome authenticity from others. (How could we improve our readiness to welcome authenticity from others?)
7. To capacity to be authentic with life flowing. (In what way might we improve our capacity to be more aligned with life that wants and needs to flow through us?)
8. The readiness to be authentic with life flowing. (How might we add to our readiness to be with life and calling flowing through us?)

For others.
With self.
From others.
With life flowing.

It all goes together. It is the close-in that often teaches about the far-away. It is sometimes the far-away that teaches about the close-in.

Love does indeed open life.