We want to be loved to the core for who we are, not what we look like, or how much money we have, or what we can do for somebody. We want a partner to tune into who we are on the inside, as well as on the outside.

But that can’t happen as long as we guarded. We have to give up some control, we have to yield, we have to be vulnerable to get the love we want.

And it’s like magic, when we stop hiding, we’re free. We no longer feel vulnerable. We are no longer at the mercy of somebody else’s response to us.

WE see and love who we are. It no longer matters if somebody else does. But they will.… More

Some people live as though life is a scientific coincidence or accident. I believe in science. I believe God to be a scientist. I also believe Him to be a masterful artist and a mystic, the creator and the force behind everything good.

I believe God to be love.

Life without that belief is empty, at least emptier than I want my life to be. You could argue (and I have) that I believe because I want to, because I can’t bear the thought of an empty or accidental existence. But I have evidence. It is both everywhere and nowhere, tangible and intangible.

Einstein said, “There are two ways to live your life — one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.”

This morning as I jogged, I got caught in the rain … and loved it! I raised my arms in surrender to the heavens; and rather than feeling like a prisoner, I felt like a freed bird!
The forces of nature are the forces of God. Dare to run with them. Dance with them. Sing with them. Cry with them. Be still with them. And they will make a believer of you!… More

If we teach children to love some people and not others, we teach them to love conditionally. In other words, we don’t really teach them to love at all.

If we teach children to know and love themselves just the way they are, we teach them to love everybody that way.… More