Where does love exist for you?

In preparation for my book talk with the ASU libraries this past week, I was researching some different things to further expand on my thoughts on some of the topics to be discussed. I ran across this quote from a French philospher Albert Camus that said, “The evil that is in the world always comes from ignorance”. It connected to something I feel pretty strongly about and that being that we try to control what we fear. The more we learn about different people the less we will fear them and the less we will try to hurt or control them. It rang true so I did a little more digging into this philosopher and found something that further facinated me about what he thought about love. Grace Whistler wrote she thought “Camus’ ideas on love was that it was a kind of human solidarity, not abstracting or some far off theory or something like we make up in our minds about it, but it is, rather, responding to the Other with love and compassion. Mind blown! We do this with love don’t we? We often give love this fairtale brushing and it can at times seem unreachable but it is not that at all! Human solidarity, responding in love and compassion to others. We can all practice love on a daily basis.

So my challenge to you today reader is to think about where love exists for you? Is it theorectical? Is it abstract? Is it like what Winston Churchill said,”… It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma;….” Or is it right here in real time and space sitting in front of you and waiting for you to act upon it?

I don’t know if you need to hear today, but I love you. You are worthy of it. You are not bad. You are good. You are unique. You are not what happened to you. You wonderfully made.