Love from the Heart, of the Heart, the Heart

Relationships are lovely, they are our blessings.

Past, Present, Future- whether flourishing, withering or yet to be discovered, they are the path within which we deepen and grow in ourselves and in life.

The bud

stands for all things,

even for those things that don't flower,

for everything flowers, from within of self-blessing;

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on its brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

-Galway Kinnell, from Saint Francis and the Sow

The bud of a relationship is fed with mindfulness, with attention. There is a deepening of a relationship with the quality of presence. Through attending to your loved ones, to relationships, seeing and touching the beauty that lies within, there is beauty that begins to shine within the self. A deep recognition of not being separate. An opening of the heart and a knowing that LOVE is eternally present.

Happy Valentines Day,

Christine, Eric and Tessa