Emissaries of Divine Light International

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The True Renewable Resource

There's a renewable resource that humankind as a whole has yet to wake up to, and that renewable resource is love. As I'm fond of saying, it's not love as some kind of fluffy emotion. I'm talking about love as a power. We also talk about our fuel sources as powers, and we're depleting those rapidly. But, no matter how we try, we're not going to deplete love. We can't stand in the way of it. Love will have its way.

I'm not too interested in engaging in what's falling apart. I have other things to do with my time and my energy. I have an abiding interest in maintaining my true fuel levels. And this is not some kind of abstraction. It could be and has been in the past. But, for me, the only value is in where the rubber hits the road, as we say: "How does this play out in my life?"

How it plays out in my life is that I am refusing to accept judgments of my own human capacities, as a prelude to refusing to engage in judgments of other people's capacities. What am I doing if I'm sitting in judgment of my own every move? That's a form of paralysis.

I'm more interested in being on the leading edge of my own experience, to find out what it is to be looking into the unknown in a very real way. Because when it comes right down to it, the only place that I can know anything is on that leading edge. And the "leading edge," for me, is another term for the present moment. All I need to do is use the lamp of my own consciousness to see what the next step is—not way down the road but just the next step.

Life, Love, God, has done that for me every step of the way, as I've paid attention. I haven't realized it all the time, but in retrospect I know that's true. Here I am, in position to be of service to my own capacities, first of all, and then to anybody with whom I come in contact. That, to me, is a life of service.

Maureen Waller, 2008