You Got to Let Love Rule!
It may be a cliche, but it’s still powerful magic.
It’d been a hard couple of weeks in a hard couple of years. A caricature of a mean, greedy slob was in the White House and the country was more politically polarized than at any time in recent memory. We’d just witnessed the circus that was the Kavanaugh hearing and half the women in America were feeling triggered and frayed around the edges. I’d just gone 10 rounds with a troll, whom I inexplicably couldn’t seem to walk away from. It ultimately turned out to be a cathartic and healing experience, but that’s another story. In the short term, it was frustrating and infuriating. And then somehow the sun broke through anyhow. It was all about LOVE!
I went to my favorite taco place for lunch and realized that I’d left my wallet at home by mistake. The owner told me that was no problem. Did I want my food to eat in or to go? I stopped back later in the afternoon and paid him, but not before telling everyone I knew about the kind man who makes the world’s best tacos.
Then I went to pick up a couple of things at Target. The cashier was deaf and after she’d kindly checked me out, I signed “thank you” to her — one of the few bits of sign language that I actually know. It made me really happy to be able to connect with her in that way — just one human being to another, and it set the mood for the rest of the afternoon.
I had an afternoon session with a client and just had to tell her about the morning I’d had. We talked about the beauty of just appreciating the basic humanity in other people and both agreed that it was one of the best feelings in the world, both as a giver and a receiver.
That evening I got a note from a reader, who thanked me for unknowingly helping him on his own journey. “I appreciate your candor, wit, and beautifully charged imagination. Thank you for making openness seem possible even on hard days!,” he wrote. I was beginning to truly feel plugged into the greater flow of love and connection and I really wanted to keep it going. After so many days of focusing on insensitivity and lack of caring, it was a welcome alternative.
The next morning I woke up to a request from one of the Sensual Enchantment writers to pen a short blurb for the preface of an upcoming book. It was so affirming of everything that I want this publication to be — a celebration of the magic of life, love and sexuality!
The icing on the cake came today when the true healing power of love became apparent in another client session. It was an incredibly moving experience that I cried throughout, just from the sheer power and majesty of it! It wasn’t how I expected that session to go at all, but I was so humbled and grateful that it did.
It’s not as though I am going to stop speaking up about things that I believe need to be said, but it reminded me that often the greatest weapon we have is the one where we put down our defenses and really open up to each other. The more that we cultivate the flow of love and focus on that, the more pleasant a world it is to live in. I decided I am going to continue to make a conscious effort to do just that! Then I got in the car and this was playing on the radio — You Gotta Let Love Rule❣️ And so I’m going to……….. I hope you will join me.
