Love, and Love's Companions: Faith and Hope

Today I needed more Hope...the thing with feathers (Emily Dickinson!). I started thinking about hope; how is it different from faith? Then i thought of the 3 emotional/spiritual realities that will “remain”...and in a moment of Faith Imagination, I allowed myself to imagine a literal picture of these realities. I saw Faith as a sort of ground to stand on, and Hope as a kind of bubble or energy field around me that could vary, and finally-- Love as the texture and quality in the air that I breathe.

Faith and hope seem to be more in and about this world...Love spans this life and then whatever is beyond. They are all realities; bio-chemical states in our bodies, and we can see the effects of them in each other, as they manifest themselves in us and others. All of us. And when they are absent, we can see the effects and affects of those conditions also...we humans have so many ways to recognize and understand each other that go beyond speech, sight, hearing and touch.

We are born with “mirror neurons”, which help us connect with each other, and there is a phenomena called entrainment, which is a physics phenomenon involving connection, and the whole inner and intuitive process of sensing and hunches. These are not special senses just for some -- we all have them, and some of us are just more practiced and attuned to their presence.

May you have a full awareness and experience of these ​3 final realities and Rest in Love!

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