Shaddows

To be hidden in the shadow does not erase my existence. If the shadow is there, it will last until a light is cast in a different direction so that the shadow remains but covers me not. Would you shine your light and bring me out of hiding? Would you kiss the frog? Would you...

Love Anyway

Simply Because I Can

“Withhold not good from who it is due when it is in the power of your hand to do it.”

A wisdom charm and an ancient Hebrew proverb – I like looking at it. Meditating on it. It speaks to me; it makes me think - What makes something good? To who is it owed? Do I owe it!?! Do I have the power to deliver it? Why should I do anything for anybody? Makes me wonder why anybody does anything for anybody.

The one who knows him or herself to be powerful is fully invested in sharing their power. It is only those who believe themselves to be weak, who cultivate weakness or allow it to remain.

I was born into this world as a child who could do nothing for himself. Someone changed my diaper and dirtied their hands. I had done nothing to deserve such favor but they had the power to not leave me dirty. I became hungry. I did nothing to work for my bread and yet they fed me with their power to take away my pangs. Somewhere along the way, I decided I did not want to do what was done for me. I did not want to simply give my good away unless it was to someone who had delivered good to me first. In those moments I believed in my weakness. In those moments I lost my way. My first experience in this world taught me to give where goodness was needed and not necessarily where it was afforded.

I listen for those who cannot hear without me. I write the songs for those who cannot feel the music without me. I write the truth for those who could not identify the lie without me. I take away pain for those who can’t find their comfort without me never wanting to count man’s sins or weakness against them.

Those who have lost their way are overdue for direction. The person lost in grief is overdue for joy. The person lost in confusion is overdue for understanding. The person befuddled in conflict is overdue for peace. Those who are overwhelmed with despair are overdue for hope. Those who carry the burden of their fellow man are always due help to lighten the load.

Those who are lost simply need a Savior. The people we save are not always the people we owe but all of them are due it. There are those who cannot afford my help but what I cannot afford is to leave them without it. Love Anyway

From My Heart

Join Me,

Marquis

Brand New

You have given yourself permission to live through this moment and to continue into the next. You have done this. This moment is peculiar; it is extraordinary; it is beyond fathoming, but what makes it quintessentially intriguing is it has never been before.

This moment is Brand New.

You made it so.

All moments are exactly this way. You have never been here before and there is no sense in requiring yourself to live in the past or relishing in the pain or JOY of a past event. You have not lived through a pain that remained beyond your power to keep it going. Neither have you lavished in a joy which paralyzes the ability to exceed it. Freedom lives beyond your grandest idea and Love lives beyond comparison.

Be Brand New; Take no prisoners; Hold no one captive to your known ideas which are only evidenced in your past.

If you have a Lover

Call it done and start it Over

If you have a Friend

Let them go and begin Again

If you have a Life

Die already and be Born Again

More Than I Ever Did

Look at the face of someone you love

Experience with them the joy that lives through them in your absence.

Let love happen knowing Love is bigger than your grandest ideas

Love offers more than your awareness can allow.

Limit not the one you Love to be constricted by your ignorance.

Learn from Love.

Live beyond your rules and let Life happen

Breathe Again then Love Again

Never make it like it was

Learn what is becoming

I love you more than I ever did

Less than I ever will

God..? Open..? Relationship?

The other day I went on a date with God and let me tell you… It was absolutely amazing. I found out things about myself; there were secrets and unkown treasures inside of me just waiting to be exposed. I began to see how beautiful and wonderful I am. God gave me this overwhelming experience and Xchange of Love. Everyone should know this and really, it was beyond words.

Later on as I was reflecting on what a wonderful Xchange I had, I thought I might give God a call to catch up. Love answered and said this to me.

“I had a wonderful time with you as well. Did you know that I was even able to see Myself and My Soul in you? It’s like you are a ‘Soul-jar’ for Love. However, I can’t spend much more time with you because I have some who are very dear to me who have become very concerned that I might run out of Love if I share too much with you. So they have given me some laws to abide by to guarantee that I not be diminished and also, so that I can be God for them almost exclusively… …So sorry!”

Is it really such a far-fetched idea to date God? I remember hearing about those who have a date or an appointment with destiny. As such, I have an appointment with Love and even an appointment with Life. Where ever there is Love, I want to be there and where I AM, Love should meet me. It would be my desire to have an abiding appointment with Love and Life. It serves as a much more comforting notion than imagining a Life without Love or a Love without Life.

So what is Love? Is Love personified? Someone in our ancestry suggested, “God is Love.” Is this personification of Love the writer’s way of saying, “God is always Godding, and Love is never exhausted or diminished by Loving? Since we have defined and seen Love in so many ways it would seem something as simple as limitless love would not continue to escape us. There simply is no end to Love; it is never exhausted and there simply is no end to God. God is everywhere and can be seen in all things but only by those who have eyes to see. Those of us who don’t have eyes to see can see and perceive only limitedness.

Because we have been conditioned and domesticated to believe that all things have their limits, we’ve accepted that Love is finite and can therefore be depleted. This is why we have the tendency toward possessiveness and we seek then to possess God, possess Love and possess people. We need not possess Love to have Love. Having Love is all that is necessary to extend Love. Possessing Love is what gives the inclination to withhold it and we only withhold what we want to keep for ourselves. So we make rules and laws to guarantee that no one gets it unless we qualify them. If this were Love’s desire, there would be no BeLoved.
It’s not been Love’s desire but it has been the inclination of the many. And if we continue in this current trajectory of possessiveness, Love will be hidden and, we’ll all continue waiting for it. It seems from the looks of our current plight of frustration, anxiety, fear, anger and even depletion, there are yet quite a few of us laying in wait. We do expect and want Love to be limitless when it finds us; we just don’t really anticipate that limitless Love will process through us.

Who, among us would like to stand in the presence of anyone who desires to withhold Love from us? Love is the unconditioned response to the presence of Life to activate goodness. In other words – love always presents itself to all of what is good. And if things seem other than good, Love loves Anyway. It makes it Good.

You are God and you are Love. You may not be all of what Love is but all of what you are can be what Love is. You may not be all of what God is but all of what you are can be what God is. If I am only what God is, then I will be only what Love is. The only other option is that I embrace insanity and become beside myself and dis-appoint myself and lose my date with Love. So if you love only one, you will not love the many. If you love the many, you now know you can love all. If you love all ones, you will Love alone (all-one) and you will Love only and you will Love Anyway.

Love Anyway

If you've Loved once, you've experienced a miracle. If you've loved twice, you'll know loving once pales in comparison. And when you just simply learn to Love, you'll know to stop counting...

Love Anyway

Beloved

It’s a good day; I’m so happy to be in it and more than that, I am happy to be sharing it with you. So, thank You.

Thinking about you, I’m reminded of a song I used to sing when I was a child. “You’ve done so much for me; I cannot tell it all.”Just so you know I am grateful you chose to join this group. This is one thing you’ve done for me and that just scratches the surface. I’m affected by many of your decisions especially the ones I don’t know about. Your life is undoubtedly a gift to me and it is my desire to bring a strong emphasis to this truth and to offer up my life as a gift to you as well.

On my personal Facebook page, I have been posting updates in a series called Love Anyway. I’ve gotten feedback from many of my friends acknowledging how helpful the series has been and I am elated that you have been able to follow as well. I started “Love Anyway” as an encouragement and a personal reflection. I know that my capacity to love is endless – no matter what. Love heals; Love feels; Love gives; Love lives – LOVE COVERS! When I am challenged to not believe this, I am reminded to Love Anyway. I imagined one day if I might ever find myself in a moment when I did not want love to find me. It took very little time for me to come to know I want to be loved always; I want to be loved in all ways. And even when I have totally screwed up, (and I have) I want to be loved ANYWAY. If I want this for myself, isn’t it simply my reasonable service to offer it up? (the age old golden rule)

I post daily with hopes that something I say can serve to enhance and enrich your life. All of my updates are the fruit of my personal meditations unless otherwise noted. I hope you will visit the group often and when you do, give us a comment or ask a question. The Life Xchange is here to aid you in defining and discovering your ability to…

Love without condition.
Live effortlessly
Master your freedom

…and you will BeLoved.

Living 2 Love,
Marquis

“Love is to give from your strength into the life of another in order to help the other optimize their reason for being.”