Love Moved In- Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I stepped out of the cave and into the sunlight and was dazed. My body was stiff from sitting cross-legged for so long but I'd never felt so alive. 

Everything seemed new, like the Earth after a big storm. Washed clean of my over-extending mind, I didn't wonder how long it would last. 

My breath was deep and steady, my eyes, now adjusted to the daylight, darted about as if for the first time. I drank in the colors, the bird song and the earthy composted leaf smell, that were all competing for my attention. I felt the energy around me talking to the energy within me.   

I felt so much love coursing through me. Like a river, it swept through me. 

I'd had these feelings before, but not as strong as this or for as long. I didn't own it but I knew I belonged to it and I felt at one with it. 

I felt so comfortable, so at peace, I didn't feel I had to go anywhere or be anything. 

I wasn't thinking this, that or the other and worrying about the results or deadlines, I just was. 

A clear and gentle voice spoke silently to my soul. " The time has come for your heart to sing, your heart has fully opened and there is no closing it. There is no going back, even the thought to return has gone. You are free in eternal peace and oneness. The journey has ended, the striving has ended, now there is just, breathing and flowing."

"Everyday I will have a task for you, there is a lot to do in your new beingness. Fear has left you, anxiety has moved out and loves moved in. Treat her well and she will serve you well, serve her well and in return your life will be blessed with more than you have ever desired."

"Listen carefully, follow directions to the letter,  don't procrastinate, don't hesitate, don't deviate. 

Be the love that you are, be the truth that you are, be the change that you want. 

If you are struggling with something, go within, sit silently and listen to the wind. Be in the world but not of the world.... go!"

I sat and put my hiking boots back on, picked up my bag and made my way back to the path, that meandered slowly, back down the mountain to where I'd parked the 4WD.