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My 8 year old daughter performed a lyrical solo in competitions this year for the first time. She practiced over and over almost daily at home, which meant the song she danced to played on repeat for us all to hear. What was the song you ask? - "What the World Needs Now" by Will Young
As this song echoed through the house, I watched my sweet girl, with her soft smile, and gentle movement connecting to the words and message of this song. She got it. She felt it.
"What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No not just for some but for everyone."
All of the greatest poets, songwriters, philosophers, mystics, and artist who have stood the test of time have shared a similar message: the greatest power in the world is love. It is the answer.
That is a big statement, and a confusing one if the understanding and experience of love is narrow and attached only to human, physical love. However, the love we are talking about here is so much bigger than that.
Love is an energy force that moves us beyond ourselves and into our truest expression of creation and unity. Love moves us into action that delivers grace, compassion, humility, healing, peace, truth, and abundance. In the human and holy experience of life, love can often feel like one big confusing mystery that none of us really know how to access or use to its fullest capacity. Yet, I believe our whole purpose for being here is to know this love.
Going back to the song, I disagree with this one line, “It's the only thing that there's just too little of”. On the contrary, love is the one thing there is NEVER too little of. It is available to us infinitely and in abundance. Love is everywhere, and to activate it we must open to it, receive it and use it as the source of our thoughts, words and actions.
The Invitation for today is about becoming masterful in Love; I offer this question as place to start and come back to:
In this moment or situation, what would love do?
Sit in the stillness and listen and observe the answers you receive. This small practice teaches and grows our capacity to act through love.
I ask myself this question daily and in many situations throughout a day. It always teaches me and supports me to learn a little more about love.
'The salvation of man is through love and in love'.
- Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
What the World Needs Now by Will Young
Journal Prompts
In this moment or situation, what would love do?
How did I know/witness love today in myself and the world around me?
Love, what do you want me to know? (play with letting love speak to you through your writing)
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