Letting love find you today just as you are Welcoming love to meet you in this here and now moment To envelop you in its goodness,
Its grace,
Its mercy and kindness Arriving here and spending time settling,
Coming into a comfortable position Allowing the weight of your body to sink into the chair or the floor As you begin to arrive into this space,
Into your body,
Let yourself release Noticing any places of tension and letting go Letting the day so far fall away as if being unburdened,
Dropping and releasing any heavy weights As you're ready,
Bring your attention to your inhale and your exhale Follow a deep,
Wide breath in,
Expanding the lungs Follow a slow,
Steady exhale until the lungs are fully empty Take a few more deep,
Wide breaths and notice your body and your being come to a deeper place of stillness and rest As you let your breathing return to normal,
Become aware of how this breath sustains you The oxygen it brings to your body and how that oxygen miraculously moves to the cells Bringing sustaining life,
How that oxygen moves through the bloodstream to every organ,
To every limb,
To every atom and keeps you alive How it causes your heart to beat in every day and every night This sustaining life force is love,
Powerful,
Pure,
Abundant and hugely generous It is love that keeps you alive in every breath It is love that sustains every moment If love were to leave,
We would be no more Be truly attentive to love's sustaining power,
To the gift of love that keeps you alive Love is here in this moment,
Tending to you with kindness and compassion You are enveloped in it,
Even the silence fills to overflowing with love Remember the ways that love shows up In the smile of a stranger In the eyes of a friend or a lover In the sound of a bird singing In a tree as you place your hands on her bark In the faithfulness of pets In family In solitude and silence In tears and in laughter,
Love is present Love is wrapped around every joy and every gift Love is threaded through every suffering,
Grief and loss Love keeps the sun rising every day and the moon and stars coming out at night Consider all the ways in which you experience and receive love Perhaps you have chosen to listen to this meditation because right now you need to know you're loved In the situation that you find yourself,
In this very moment of your life,
You need to know you're loved So begin to welcome love to meet you right here,
Just as you are Allow yourself to open as a flower to the sun,
To receive love,
To welcome love To let love bring you what you need Notice how she comes to you Notice how love arrives As a divine presence,
As a light,
As a person,
As a sense,
As a colour Let love come and wrap her embrace around you and pull you to herself Let love soothe your aching heart Let love comfort,
Restore and offer hope Let love offer you her gifts of joy Love is here for you Receive what you need,
Know yourself loved and seen and known Receive the gaze of love that welcomes and celebrates and champions you Welcome the love that says you will get through this The love that says you're going to be okay The love that will enter into your suffering and your pain and sit with you and be a presence to you Let love come as rain and sunshine Let love wrap herself around your heart and bring you peace To end I offer this poem Notice any words or phrases that capture your attention It's easier to notice pain than love Love is the silence in the robin's throat that inspires it to sing Love is the silent mantra of the universe that keeps things spinning Pain is the tree that crashes in the forest Love is what grows from the fallen Love is the silence cupped in the perfect folds of an autumn leaf The beauty that dances through everything when your worried mind has finally stilled We forget to notice love because of its perfect loyalty Morning dew diamonding the grass,
The extra sparkle in snow For what other reason need it be there?
The unconditional warmth arising daily to fill your sky The ongoingness of flowers Pause dear one,
Love awaits you there
