Precious Love
By Bo Sebastian
A good friend’s cousin died this morning. I called him just after he got the news. I could hear the tears in my friend’s eyes. My heart felt heavy for him. He tried to be strong. The family was coming, and there was so much to do to get ready for all that follows such an event. Our conversation was short, my prayers continued long after we hung up.

My thought this morning is: what actually connects us to each other–what is the matter of love?

I’m inclined to think that some time beyond the deep ethers we were connected to the people we love here on earth. This connection transformed when we were born as we began to search for those we thought we lost.

Every time we find one of these connections, our spirit delights and jumps. We connect on a level now that we can’t explain–because we have no words for that spiritual connection of love. We just know that we know, they belong in our lives. And so it is.

Sometimes, though, it seems that the person we delighted in has made an alternate pact with us in the Spirit to help us on our human way. To help us, perhaps, get rid of a habit, or an anxiety–to help us get stronger than we thought we could be. And so, the strongest of these loves, sometimes become the biggest lessons givers in our lives, even our enemies or our exes.

I often think, when I reach nirvana, I will reunite with all these love and say to them: “You played your role very well. I hated you and wanted revenge like never before. You helped me learn to forgive like no one ever could have. You were the best choice to help me learn. Thank you,love, for choosing the hardest choice to help me learn on this human path.”

You see, love goes beyond good will and truth, sometimes. Loving souls can be our biggest help on this earth if you let them be your peacemakers. Its all in how you look at life. Are you viewing your life from the problem? Or are you viewing your life from the bridge above the problem?

Try the latter. You find much peace in looking at your life from an omniscient point of view.