Thoughts & Experiences - June 16, 2008 (Fatherly Love)

Every night when I speak with my father he always concludes our conversation by telling me that he loves me. These are not unfamiliar words amongst my father and me, they are words that have been and continue to be exchanged quite a bit. As father’s day was approaching this weekend I thought of the love my father so openly and willingly shares with all of us and everyone he knows. It is this love that lives within in all of us, we just don't realize it! When I think of father’s day I don’t think of it as a day just for fathers I think of it as a day for love. A day too share a ‘father’s love’, a love so strong so protective and so giving. It is truly about love, loving unconditionally. It is a love that is forgiving and ever so patient never judging. Father’s day is an opportunity for everyone to find that love and to release it and to enjoy it with everyone. I admire my father because he is not only a father to his family but a father to everyone that he knows. I remember as child always knowing that if something happened to a friend I could bring them home because my mother and father would take care of them just like their own children. Still to this day I will ask them for assistance with friends and not once have they ever turned someone away. This love is the love that we need and crave so much. We need ‘father’s love’ and ‘mother’s love’ to be ever so present. A love that is not restricted or calculated but unlimited and free flowing!

So as I sat with my dear family during barbeque this weekend I was struck with an overwhelming feeling of ‘fatherly love’. Not only a fatherly love for my own children but for everyone. I saw everyone in a different light this weekend, they were all children. They were all children that needed unconditional love, forgiving love and compassionate love. A ‘father’s love’ rang in my ears as I watched them with so much love in my eyes. My parents, brother and sisters were children and they all wanted and deserved to be loved. Their children were my children and it felt so good to hold them in my heart. This love extended to everyone, neighbors and friends were all children. No matter who I thought of I felt ‘fatherly love’ for them. The earth was a child and the earth was no different, a child wanting to be held and loved. Light beamed out of everyone, it was such a spectacular feeling. It didn’t matter whether I was their father it only mattered that I loved everyone with ‘fatherly love’! I closed my eyes and screamed out into the vibration, we are all fathers and we are all loved so much. In that instance I knew that it did not matter whether you were a father because what really mattered was ‘fatherly love’. We are all children and we are all loved with so much fatherly love, we have been truly blessed to have each other. It is such a blessing to love and a wonderful gift to be able to express ‘fatherly love’. To know that we are all so connected that we are all just one big family is to truly grasp the beauty of this life.

To my dear father I bow down to the divinity in you, and I thank you for truly being love, ‘fatherly love’. I honor you dear father not just because you are my father but because you are a father to everyone. To all of you my brothers and sisters I love you all with so much fatherly love!

Namaste, Peace and Love!