Love Stories

"...and love your neighbor AS yourself..."

Jesus's (Yeshua's) second part of his statement about the two most important commandments pretty much assumes that we love ourselves first--so we can then love our neighbors as much. For a good portion of my life, I'd been trying to love everyone else first--and ended up tripping over myself. I'd find myself frustrated and resentful when the ones I'd tried so hard to love seemed to take me for granted.

My big ah-ha! moment was when I had a conversation with my "I am that I am" self, whom I perceived as God at the time. It was that warm and tingling inner knowingness that flooded my senses, my awareness of me--and through it, I discovered the importance of learning to love myself first, so I could then easily love everyone else unconditionally, too. This whole blog is actually a love story--simply the story of me learning to love all of me--and discovering that my friend, Yeshua, knew what he was teaching.

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  1. UnknownAugust 21, 2013 at 9:28 PM

    Your experiences -- and the words you've allowed here to describe them -- are so very, very beautiful, Penny. Wow. It just makes me feel good reading. (Truly, I've bookmarked when I need a quick pick me up. :) ) It is so real, so honest, so POWERFUL. Especially the parts where you acknowledge the proverbial mustard on your chin :) You absolutely rock. ((((((((((Penny))))))))) (that's an e-hug, of course.)

    MC

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    1. Penny BinekAugust 22, 2013 at 6:31 AM

      I'm rocking this e-hug thing! You have a gift with words, MC--and I appreciate how you use them with me. Are you a writer?

      I've noticed that, after writing the stories out, the mustard just doesn't matter anymore. It makes it easy to step out of the story and see how melodramatic and funny I can actually be. And it's fun to have someone like you to laugh with me about those moments. What a world of class acts, aye?

      I seem to be just on the verge of fully grasping how mentally complex I made EVERYTHING. The human mind is constantly chattering, telling me everything that's wrong (that I need to brace for and erect protective guards for). I've been telling it to shut up quite a bit lately. Ha! I've been walking through life as a warrior and a victim most of the time--I can finally now discern that clearly.

      So I'm walking and reminding myself with EACH BREATH that it's all just illusion, that all is well in all of creation, and that there's NO-THING I have to do. I close my eyes and feel myself drop the guards and the weapons, and I feel my energies open and expand out to harmonically resonate and mingle with my world. It seems important to keep it as simple as that.

      So many years spent just trying to grasp and run with that concept. I'll let you know how it turns out, and I hope you'll let me know how things go for you.

      Again--thanks SO MUCH for reaching out to connect and harmonize and touch my life this way. It's truly an honor, and it feels like we're finally really getting into the fun part.

      ((((((((((MC)))))))))!

      Penny

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