Question: What will make love tangible in your life?
I have a goal I gleaned from my "Autumn Bucket List”. Since this is our last full week of Autumn, I felt it was important to honor the work I did back in October when I claimed “Make love tangible” as something important, that deserved my focused presence and attention.
Yes, “Make Love Tangible” is what the goal proclaims.
It is homage to Kahlil Gibran in The Prophet when he wrote, “Work is love made visible.” My work is also loving the world, as poet Mary Oliver says in “The Messenger” in her collection titled Thirst.
How do we make love tangible?
I started my day making love for myself tangible.
Self-love is the foundation for all other love, so this makes sense, doesn't it?
I sat at the kitchen table for my morning writing practice. Daily writing practice is simply the most powerful method I have found to move myself forward in all aspects of my life. On cue, Alice-the-Cat joined me.
She loves “keeping me company” as I write, which I have also noticed is remarkably similar to sibling rivalry. I give my notebook attention and she decides she wants to sit on my notebook. She wants to be a part of the daily scratching. She wants to see what I am doing, smell the pen or pencil. She wants to maneuver her way across my page.
After putting her on the floor for the third time, I held her an extra moment and said, “Alice, if you do that again, I will need to put you in my bedroom until I am done.”
I put her on the floor and she climbed back to the table and my notebook. I scooped her up, held her close, accepted her purrs as love and put her in my room and quietly shut the door.
Alice got sequestered, my morning pages got written, I gained clarity and I have taken ground on several long procrastinated upon goals.
This is how we make love tangible.
We love ourselves and we act in alignment with that love.
My work is about loving the world, making love tangible - and you are in that world. I got my writing done so that I could share my insights with you and YOU may then have your OWN insights to act upon.
Did you hear that?
My morning writing practice was done so that I could share my insights with you and YOU may then have your OWN insights to act upon.
I got content to my website designer.
The same item had been on my to-do list (creating that specific content) only slightly touched – for days. This morning, the morning I loved myself first, I had a breakthrough.
This small, easy-to-do task got marked off the to-do list and got put squarely on my TA-DA! List.
I got closer to finishing my website, finishing a book project all put my heart and my life work out in a bigger, more expansive way. The more people who know what I am up to, the more lives are touched, the more the planet will shift into the direction of all that is positive, all that is sacred, all that expresses what is in our hearts.
Even the “tasky-y tedium” I abhor most of the time becomes bearable and in fact, celebration worthy when we recognize it as Love Made Tangible: cleaning my son’s bathroom. Putting laundry away. Running errands.
All of this brings love to life in a direct way and multiplies our efforts.
Are you with me?
Do you see this?
Can you feel it?
I did this with you in mind. I wrote freely on my notebook pages so that I could communicate more clearly with you. I filled images in my art journal so that I could communicate with you clearly.
Let’s start (or continue) the week making love REALLY tangible. Not faking it, not doing things half way and especially not succumbing to the destructive habits of snarky or judgment or whining.
You have the power to make love tangible.
Let’s make it into a game.
What will you do today to make love tangible?
Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Fall, 2015 and beyond.
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