Think of That Love Letter ~ by Brad Cahill

How do I say I am love
I am you are me are we
In the intimate, delicate dance
That precedes all other earthly expressions…
Before the first sunrise
Yet absolutely the same
As all sunrises, mid-days, sunsets, and mid-nights
All together, all at once?

Think of that love letter
You know the one...

The one you held to your heart so many times for so long
The one you could never bring yourself to throw away
The one still hidden
In your secret, heart of hearts hiding place
No matter how much life has changed since then

Now… know that no matter how moving or touching
Or profoundly precious it may have ever been
It is only a hint
Of the letter from home
On its way to you right now.

We cling to every little thing
With even the slightest fragrance
Of the haunting memory of our true home
So deep at our core
So far beyond the marrow of our bones
That the mere thought of it
Just the possibility
Puts us in an exalted, rapturous, radiant state
Extending our too easily accepted boundaries
To the boundless…
Whisking us past
The worldly-inebriated, insecure, ever-interfering intellect
Straight to the heart
Of the Infinite, Intuitive In-Knowing
(Not that we have finally found our home)
But that we are our home.

We have needlessly sought from others
What is truly, already our essence, My Love
The One Heart containing all hearts
Mercifully revealing that all love ever felt
Was only the sweet, fleeting feeling
Leading us to the Divine Swooning
And the sweeping, swirling realization
That we have always been
The very source of that exalted state
Contained in the words
I Am Love.

~  © Brad Cahill
Oneness Blessing Giver
Lake Tahoe
All rights reserved, Used with permission

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