{"id":111481,"date":"2023-05-31T16:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=111481"},"modified":"2023-06-02T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:02:26","slug":"communicating-living-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/111481-communicating-living-love","title":{"rendered":"Communicating Living Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness focuses very directly on loving as its purpose. If you are wondering what we\u2019re about, we are about living love, how to communicate that and make that a practical way of living in this world.<\/em> – John Morton<\/p>\n

This article by John Morton comes from John\u2019s sharing at a \u201cCommunicating Living Love\u201d workshop held in June 2015 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every once in a while, people ask me about my purpose. I consider it\u2019s very much involved with living love. John-Roger shared his affirmation, \u201cI communicate living love.\u201d I consider that affirmation something our soul would say. So every soul, when it\u2019s in its affirmation, when it\u2019s in its expression, would say \u201cI communicate living love.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness focuses very directly on loving as its purpose. \u00a0If you are wondering what we\u2019re about, we are about living love, how to communicate that and make that a practical way of living in this world. \u00a0Some of us have been at it most of our lives. \u00a0I find it takes great practice, dedication, and a lot of humility. \u00a0Some days it can be quite challenging and mystifying.<\/p>\n

Consider that you\u2019re here for\u00a0living\u00a0love. You\u2019re invited to make it a practical focus in your life. If you\u2019re going to dedicate your life to\u00a0love,\u00a0you might want to know what we consider that to be. Here\u2019s a way John-Roger expressed it, from his book \u201cLiving Love from the Spiritual Heart<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Love\u00a0is the essence of all creation, the glue that holds everything in its place in relation to all other parts and that allows it all to function. Everything is a manifestation of love, and loving is about the closest term I\u2019ve come up with for the energy of spirit.
\n(John-Roger)
\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We are in a movement of spiritual inner awareness. We could also say we are in a movement of loving inner awareness. Those terms are very much synonymous with one another. We look at spirit as a loving consciousness, an entirely loving consciousness.\u00a0What\u2019s the difference between what is\u00a0love\u00a0and what is loving? John-Roger wrote:<\/p>\n

Loving is a process that happens inside you through the grace of spirit by your own ability to be in touch with the God within. The loving that you have for yourself, for one another, is God\u2019s love. There isn\u2019t any other love. Your loving heart is God\u2019s loving heart. Your body is God\u2019s body. The God that you are is all of the other\u00a0<\/em>g<\/em>ods. In God, y<\/em>ou have your\u00a0living\u00a0and breathing, your coming in and your going out, your death and your resurrection. The whole spectrum of your life takes place within God. And anyone who is residing in the power of\u00a0love\u00a0is never destroyed, never separated, always free, always up, always growing.
\n(John-Roger)
\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Take that in. You don\u2019t need to believe it. You don\u2019t need to already know this in some personal way. This may become something you want to experience. You can experience living love as a realization of who you are as an intention. It can be a discovering of who you are. This is a way of relating to living love.<\/p>\n

Living love is not just loving from some place deep within you but living love with every breath. When you breathe in, love breathes in. When you breathe out, love breathes out. Living love also means that your love extends unconditionally to all things. You love everything present, no exceptions. Living love doesn\u2019t care whether you\u2019re black or white, female or male, drunk or sober, this or that. It is the expression of the loving heart which knows no limitations, conditions, or restrictions. It just is, equally.
\n(John-Roger)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is loving consciousness?<\/p>\n

When you bring yourself into loving consciousness with all things and with the one consciousness that is everywhere, peace and harmony will enfold your heart and you will recognize within every level of your beingness that there is only love. Let love be your guide, your breath, your life, then you live in the heart of God and are renewed every moment through His love.
\n(John-Roger)
\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m going to share with you what we found as \u201cSeven Keys to Living Love.\u201d The first key is to look at everything through love, to see through the eyes of love. In our teachings, in our classes, in our focus, we are always looking at how to make living love something we are conscious of doing.<\/p>\n

The next key is to give up every reason not to be loving. That\u2019s easy! Ha! Can you imagine a loving drill sergeant, making you drop fifty more so you\u2019ll give up every reason not to be loving? \u201cDrop now! Give me fifty loving pushups!\u201d<\/p>\n

The next key is love yourself first so that you can love others. I hope you understand how practical that is. In our teachings, we have a guideline to \u201cTake care of yourself so you can help take care of others.\u201d We could change that to \u201cLove yourself so you can help love others.\u201d It’s important to find the loving within you, so you know you are a source of loving. If you\u2019re not loving yourself and then think you\u2019re loving others, watch out. Be careful. Often what we think is loving isn\u2019t necessarily loving. It\u2019s something conditional.<\/p>\n

The next key is to love yourself anyway.<\/p>\n

When things are going badly, sit down and say, I love me anyway.
\n(John-Roger)
\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You may have some resistance to\u00a0loving\u00a0yourself. You may find some reason why you won\u2019t love yourself. The key is to just\u00a0love\u00a0yourself anyway.<\/p>\n

Keep loving yourself.\u00a0 Keep\u00a0on keeping on,\u00a0keep\u00a0loving yourself and keep on keeping on<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Even<\/em> your negative experiences are gifts from spirit to build your strength, your awareness, your empathy and your loving. So thank God for them. When you are secure in your knowledge of God\u2019s love for you, you know that everything that happens is to lift you and move you closer to your own divinity. I found out a long time ago that what the Lord does is perfect and there\u2019s nothing designed to hurt or harm us.
\n(John-Roger)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That may take a while to understand. Stay open to the loving so you have the opportunity to understand there\u2019s nothing designed to hurt or harm you.<\/p>\n

The next key is to let divine loving flow through you. Letting divine love flow through you is very easy. I\u2019m going to leave it at that.<\/p>\n

The next key is to listen with loving. That\u2019s about how we hear, so we would hear with loving, that loving would be the receptacle. It can also be how you receive all experiences. Those experiences could be mental, emotional, through the physical senses, in every way. Allow yourself to receive it in loving and take it to the loving. One of the great teachings John-Roger expressed and demonstrated is this amazing ability to take any experience to the loving, to source it within his consciousness in the loving, and then demonstrate how that works.<\/p>\n

Always speak kind words and speak from loving.
\n(John-Roger)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s the seventh key \u2013 to speak with loving. Another easy thing to do! This may be one of those experiences where it humbles you at times to listen and speak in loving. To speak with loving takes great awareness, a master level of awareness to communicate living love.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

Invocation of Living Love<\/h4>\n

Let\u2019s consider what we\u2019re about to do together is an invocation of living love.
\nI encourage you to be open to that.<\/p>\n

There is a\u00a0Light that is with this consciousness we call the Christ, the Holy Spirit.
\nThere is also a consciousness working with us that we refer to as the Traveler.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re being attuned to your living love, to the power of this love.<\/p>\n

This living love can solve whatever needs solving, heal whatever needs healing,
\nbring clarity to you, bring joy and peace and understanding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s consider we\u2019re in a process now where we open up to letting go.
\nWe are trusting in this Light.
\nWe are trusting that we are surrounded, protected, and filled in a way that allows us
\nto see the good and to let go of whatever is not serving any longer as any form of
\nnegativity, hurt, fear, whatever would restrict us from living love.<\/p>\n

You are opening up so that can be released, that it is all being done for the highest good.<\/p>\n

We can also relax.
\nWe can breathe in this blessing.
\nWe can be aware that this radiant Light, this presence, is completely filling us,
\nsurrounding us, and bringing forward greater experiences of living love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan. That just means these blessings are present.<\/p>\n

\n

Note: \u201cLiving Love from the Spiritual Heart<\/em><\/a>\u201d by John-Roger is available free of charge as a gift to you at msia.org\/shop<\/a>.\u00a0 John\u2019s Morton\u2019s series of three blessings books are also available at msia.org\/shop<\/a> as is \u201cBlessings This Day<\/em><\/a>\u201d, a collection of ten blessings by John, compiled into one video, that is available in MP4 or DVD formats with English and Spanish subtitle options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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