“When love beckons to you observe him, Although his methods are laborious and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Although the sword hidden amongst his pinions might wound you… For at the same time as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. At the same time as he’s in your development so is he in your pruning. At the same time as he ascends to your peak and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver within the solar, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them of their clinging to the earth…” ~ Kahlil Gibran
When my mentor and religious instructor, Dr. Wayne Dyer was alive, he used to speak loads about St. Francis of Assisi. How this stunning Saint impacted his life and religious journey, and the way he grew to become a very totally different individual due to him.
St. Francis performed an enormous function in Wayne’s life. And thru his nice love and timeless teachings, he led us alongside a path that helped us to expertise the transformative energy of that love… the love Wayne felt for St. Francis, and the love St. Francis felt for Wayne.
Love united them each into Oneness. And as they grew to become One with that love, all these in shut proximity—myself together with—started to fall deeper and deeper into that love, till there was not a sense of separation, solely Oneness.
How Love Adjustments Every thing
“The minute I heard my past love story, I began searching for you, not figuring out how blind that was. Lovers don’t lastly meet someplace. They’re in one another all alongside.” ~ Rumi
After being within the presence of that love for therefore lengthy, I felt how St. Francis grew to become part of me, simply as I’ve at all times been part of him. And as unusual as it could sound, I felt as if I knew him extra intimately and extra deeply than my very own household and associates.
He grow to be my Household!
His Gentle grew to become the sunshine that was guiding my steps to my very own Gentle—away from a world of the senses, to a world past the senses… Away from a self that was sure by house a time, to a Self past house and time.
His peace grew to become my peace and his love, my love. And this love… this nice, nice love started started to tear me aside—to not damage and hurt me, however to free me from every thing that was not Actual in me.
I used to be delivered to mu knees—over and again and again—to be reminded to not maintain onto issues which might be born solely to perish. To not cling onto the temporal, however to hunt that which is Everlasting.
Lose your self to this Love
“Lose your self, Lose your self. Escape from this earthly type, For this physique is a series and you’re its prisoner. Smash by means of the jail wall and stroll exterior with the kings and princes. Lose your self, Lose your self on the foot of the fantastic King. Whenever you lose your self earlier than the King you’ll grow to be the King. Lose your self, Lose your self. Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will notice your individual gentle as radiant as the total moon… What’s your life about, anyway?— Nothing however a battle to be somebody, Nothing however a working from your individual silence.” ~ Rumi
All of it occurred means earlier than I even started to understand that it was occurring. And as I look again in any respect these years of ache, battle and despair… These many moments once I felt abandoned, misplaced and on their own, I can’t assist however surprise: How come I couldn’t see it again then? How come I didn’t know what was really occurring?
However I suppose that’s how life is at instances.
Issues occur and we are able to’t appear to know the rationale why. Individuals, locations, issues and experiences we as soon as beloved and deeply cherished disappear as in the event that they by no means even existed. They stroll away, or they’re violently taken away from us. And we are able to’t assist however undergo deeply. We will’t assist however really feel mistreated and betrayed.
It occurs to all of us. None of us is ever excluded—though we desperately attempt to struggle it.
But when we maintain onto our religion... if we give up and launch our clinging… if we make an effort to maintain our hearts lifted and our minds centered on one thing far higher than our fears, we are going to quickly come out of our many pains and trials. And looking out again we are going to notice that none of it was meant to harm us. It was solely meant to free us from every thing that was not Actual.
Maintain again nothing of your self for yourself
“Maintain again nothing of yourselves for yourselves in order that He who offers Himself completely to you might obtain you completely.” ~ St. Francis of Assisi
That is what St. Francis taught me. That is what his love did to me. And though I didn’t notice it when it first started to occur, I now know that it was all for my finest and highest good.
I wasn’t being punished. I used to be being liberated from every thing that was not Me. And thru the love I felt for him, and the love he at all times feels for humanity as complete, I discovered power to hold on—though loads of instances I felt I couldn’t.
Maintain again nothing of your self for yourself
To assume you’re alone on this world is to assume wrongly. For we’re by no means alone!
Assist, love, and help is at all times being provided to us. However now we have to be open and receptive to this love. We’ve to give up our will to a higher will, and now we have to humble ourselves earlier than our divinity by making peace with this concept that possibly, simply possibly we don’t have all of the solutions. That possibly, simply possibly, we don’t know all of it.
And that’s okay. No disgrace in that.
As a result of a Energy far higher than ourselves is aware of every thing and is at all times prepared and prepared to guide the Manner—away from our worry and sufferings, again into a spot of affection, relaxation, security and peace. And all is requested of us is to give up, belief, and let go.