Most Important

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 I have no special gifts from my Spirit Guides except maybe one—the capacity to love.  That is it.  Before my experience with the divine, I struggled with love.  Sure it’s easy to love family, but I’m not even sure I had love for myself.  In some ways I hated myself.  But after my experience with the Divine all that hatred went away.  I was left with one gift only—love.

I was transformed.  And I have been transformed ever since.  I wish I could explain it, but this is the best I can do.  I was transformed.  I’m not talking about romantic love, but a genuine love for others.  But maybe most all a love and thankfulness to my Creator.  It took years for a complete transformation and I won’t say that I love perfectly.  But any hatred I harbored was completely gone.

I never hated to the extent some people hate, but I had a dark side that totally disappeared.  And it was replaced with a feeling of love including love for myself.  And even today my heart is protected from any ill feelings by others.  My Spirit Guides watch over my heart.  I would say this is the only gift my Guides left me.  

But is it enough I can’t heal or raise the dead or walk on water?  It is enough.  In fact, I would go so far to say that love is enough.   My thoughts today are never thoughts of hatred.  I do not have the capacity for any hatred.  I still have feelings that can be hurt, for love has its pain.  But love is always better than hate.  Always!  

Hate tears down while love builds.  THAT is the difference.  I am now a builder.  This ishow I see myself.  I am even a builder of the self.  I am constantly growing and I am learning.  I have not yet arrived.  But the hatred is gone.  What is left in its place are positive feelings and the negative is gone.  It tries to creep in for the old me isn’t dead, but dormant.

So, these are my thoughts this morning as I smoke my Angel pipe with my Carter Hall and my coffee is BKG.  Thank you for your time and Peace and Love to each one of you.

Dave

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