Sustainable Love

We expect so much from love

We want it to make us happy

We want it to take care of the rest of our lives

When....it comes

Love is always here

Yet it doesn't recognize itself

With all our conditions

It can only be love if so and so is cute

It can only be love if it is what makes me look good

It can only be love if it is what I wanted it to be

We don't even let love surprise us anymore

We expect so much from it that when it is here we walk right by it like it wasn't there

A person tells you they love you and we even find a way to not believe them

And continue treating them as though they do not

We will believe that someone who gives us no attention loves us, because we desire them

And then someone who speaks in love to us, we discount

That alone is a lot more telling in itself

We respect those who don't love and want them too, that is the challenge

And we release those who love us because we don't respect them for loving us, because we don't love ourselves yet!

That is a no win situation

Love is love is love

Yes, I said this before

And Yes, it is worth saying again

Living in the moment allows you to love without expectation

That in this moment, I love my job, I am not waiting for another to love again

I love my spouse, I am not going to let my misunderstanding taint my love and thoughts of them

I love my children, even on days when they don't love so much themselves

Love is the challenge of our souls discovery

To say I love myself too much and others too much to want to take away from that

I don't want to hurt the "us" we have become in life to win for a moment

Our life is a series of moments

I understand that now

If someone came to me and took away from me that I came to with love, It would start to pierce our trust

I don't want to do that

Go to those you love and remember this is what love is

The way you are now with love is the way you will be in any new situation that comes along with love

Love isn't postponed or better because you do not know the recipient yet

That is a trick of the mind that the grass really is greener on the other side

The grass is already green and if you can't see that now, it is even harder to see it coming

Love is a state of mind

Love is a way of being

Love is what we turn it into

And Love is not a chore

Love breeds greater love

Since understanding love breeds greater understanding of many more things

Love is patient

Love does not compete

Love is open ended

And Love is not timed or has an expiration date

WE have taken liberty on many angles of life

Yet love is still most important to all of us

It is time to let love be what it is

A healer of us

A natural medication to our souls

The glue that bonds us together

And love doesn't just disappear, we disappear

No more fooling ourselves with love

It is too strong an emotion to say No to, yet we haven't learned how to say Yes to it all the way

We have left love in the middle of the road and sometimes it gets hit and it doesn't understand why

Yet it always comes back fighting for itself

Let Love teach us in many more ways who we are

It has a lot to teach us

And if we can just say Yes, that we will live in our moments, understand the love that is present

It will slow us down from searching so feverishly for something we are standing in front of

It will give us the will to look forward to future love as we share love in this day

And it will allow us to see future love when it arrives

It will give us more to share of ourselves rather than expect so much from it

And the rewards of the truth of love is yours

We can only attract to us, the completeness we feel

Understanding love in this way, can only attract love in this way to you

It is called recognition

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