Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

*Madeleine L'Engle, Writer, Episcopalian Christian

We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans.... In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us.

*Kallistos Ware, Theologian and Writer, Greek Orthodox Christian

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

*Rumi, Mystical Theologian and Poet, Sufi

BIG HUG

We awakened, Dear,
the moment of realizing
we never met.

Every meeting, here,
is a reminder
of Love.

Seeing present shadows,
recall the
Real.

Follow
the signs of time
to Eternity.

We, my Love,
have never been
apart.

How could Love
ever forget
itself?

Did you
not see God
in that stranger's smile, yesterday?

All awaken, my Dear,
seeing Grace
everywhere.

The world is
the arms of the Beloved -
Go, get a big hug.

*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi, Aug 17, 2004, Rev. Dec 21, 2015