It took me a little over 24 hours before I was able to answer the question, why do I care? My initial answer was “because I do”.  Then it came to me at the end of an exhausting day, that I care and do what I do, out of love.

You may be familiar with love, peace, freedom and justice or love peace and soul. Those have been my taglines for years.  Love has always been first, my tip top priority, because I believed for all of my days until recently that love of the Eros kind was the best love one could ever have.  Many lovers, one husband and many failures forced me to change my focus. The new tagline became justice, freedom, peace and love about two months ago.  As far as I was concerned Eros love was dead, as I’d failed at it too many times.  In my mind (as I am more logical and less emotional now ha ha ha!), I believed that fairness and justice for others and for myself trumped everything else. Freedom cannot exist with injustice. Living in a state of entanglement of any kind certainly doesn’t give one a peaceful frame of mind and as we’ve seen throughout history, injustice, more oft than not leads to unrest or even worse complacency.

I had arrived at a state of unrest; I could not have any peace within my own spirit because I’d been complacent in my duty to God, to others and to myself.  I’d been shackled by anger, fear, lack, doubt and a host of other negative emotions for far too long.  The only way that I could be free was to lose all of that negativity and walk on the path that was meant for me. I was on the road to Damascus and didn’t even know it and on that road a funny thing happened – I found love.

The one thing that I had put down came back to me in a way in which I didn’t expect and it was beautiful, it is beautiful. This new love of self and of people and of God was good, is good.  Appreciation for all that I have instead of what I have not, expressing love to others through action, with no expectation of anything in return and REALLY understanding that when all else fails, God’s love never fails has been nothing short of a revelation.

I’ve been told that I love hard and I do, and alas I am just fine with that. I do the things that I do, go the places that I go and say the things that I say, out of love.  No matter the position it has in the tagline I want people to be treated justly and fairly out of love, I want people to be free, out of love. I want people to have peace, out of love and I want all to live and to give from a place of love.

Have you felt love today? If you haven’t felt love try giving some love today.

Let love be your motivation in all that you do, it is the one thing that ties us all together.