Volume One
Chapter Seven — Steps to Authenticity
September: Love
1. Have you ever fallen in love and then fallen out of it? These strong feelings that attracted you to someone in the first place may have seemed like love, but the love I Am talking about is very rarely found in the human realm. What is typically found are degrees of like. At the top of this scale is something that mimics love. When it is tested, even severely tested, this almost love quality shows what it is really made out of because it can be withdrawn and dissolved. This can never happen with real, unconditional love. Have a seat and ask yourself if you would still love so and so if they said this or did that? If you reply by saying "yes, but I would have to forgive them first" then I Am here to tell you that this isn't really love, because love never condemns in the first place. Love never needs to forgive.
2. Anything that isn't true, unconditional love is a call for love. Who is calling for love? The soul is calling for more of itself, more love energy. The character is not calling for true love because it can't. It doesn't know what true love is. How can it call for something it doesn't even know about and has never experienced? The soul cries for love all over the land. God calls for larger amounts of itself to help counter the effects of a fear-based operating system. These calls have historically gone unanswered because the populace has deliberately been left in the dark about what souls are and how they are the one true identity of everyone.
3. There are those whose love has been tested in the most extreme ways. They have been lied to, physically harmed, stolen from, lied about, and brought into harm's way by someone, and they still love them. Maybe this person is a blood family member, and they can't cut ties completely. Everyone tries to talk sense into these folks, but they won't listen and the abuse keeps coming. The abuser may call from jail and want money put on a commissary card, and then may assume they have the right to sleep on someone's couch upon release. Maybe they will toe the line for a while, but it won't be long before they fall back into their abusive ways. Is this love? The answer is a firm no. This is an abusive relationship and love cannot, will not, be abused. The abused person in this scenario is being called to love themselves, by refusing to be abused or treated in any way other than stellar. Yes, the abuser is being someone that love cannot be around and cannot tolerate. The abuser's soul is asking for love, but the character is running the show. So the abused person needs to cut their losses and look after their own self, first and foremost. Love says no, softly at times, and firmly at others.
4. Guidelines:
Pick a time of day that suits you best and read the step that corresponds to the appropriate month and date. This is your starting point. Simply reflect on what the step means to you and ways to put it into practice. Accept whatever feelings come to the surface as you work your way through the steps. These steps are the beginning of a transformation where love replaces fear, which is no easy feat. Be patient with yourself. You are doing what few have ever been able to do. Now you have the means. Just add a little willingness and you will be a more soulful and less ego-driven being in just a year's time. Godspeed.
5. September 1
Give an example of a time when you had to love from a distance for your own well-being.
6. September 2
Love is concerned with itself first and foremost.
7. September 3
Love extends to love. Souls give love to other souls.
8. September 4
The ego is incapable of accepting true love.
9. September 5
If someone is accepting true love, this is because their soul is accepting true love and has risen to the surface to do so.
10. September 6
Love does not fix anything at the character level. It works from the inside out.
11. September 7
No one ever has to do anything to deserve love.
12. September 8
All are deserving of love.
13. September 9
Love is the only thing here that is real. It is eternal and unchanging.
14. September 10
The world is largely an example of the resistance to love.
15. September 11
Love is patient and will wait until someone is ready to receive this gift.
16. September 12
How many times have you fallen in love, only to discover that it wasn't love at all?
17. September 13
It is exciting to apply love or look through its eyes.
18. September 14
Love will show me a whole new world I've never seen before.
19. September 15
When I look through the lens of love, I will see what is love and what is not love.
20. September 16
I'm ready to put aside all of my ideas about love.
21. September 17
My ideas about love come from places where there isn't any love.
22. September 18
Movies, TV shows, social media, romance novels, and my own character's experiences don't really explain what love is, although they all purport to do so.
23. September 19
The only thing that truly knows love is itself.
24. September 20
My soul is love.
25. September 21
I can trust what my soul shows me as I open up to it.
26. September 22
I am willing to put aside what I think love is, so I can discover what it really is.
27. September 23
Do I think unconditional love may be a sign of weakness?
28. September 24
Am I afraid to live in such a violent world with love as my guide?
29. September 25
Love is unrestricted care and concern for oneself and for others.
30. September 26
Love embraces both itself and everything that isn't love yet.
31. September 27
Love accepts the absence of love as a challenge. The whole reason we are all here is to simply shine light on the absence of love.
32. September 28
Love doesn't judge or attack anything. Judgment and attack are in the realm of ego, not soul.
33. September 29
Love makes decisions on what is love and what is not love yet.
34. September 30
When you wake up each morning ask this question: "what will love have me do today, or does it want me to be still and simply be?"
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