ROAR!!!

Sometimes the love I feel – for someone, or even less specifically than for a particular someone, feels so fierce, so strong, so invincible.

I lreally like the force of the line “my undying death defying love for you” in The Power of Love. One time when I feel something lakin to this is when someone has criticised my children and I feel a swelling of determination to protect them from any doubt as to their worth in acknowledging their fallibility. The image that comes to mind is of a lioness with her cubs. But it's not just about wanting to defend them as such. It's something to do with wanting the person to know that I'm immutably on their side, that there's nothing they can do or say that would stop me from loving them. I get this kind of feeling for other people too, and perhaps most interestingly of all, can get in in times of conflict between others when I feel it for all those involved. Does that sound impossible, to feel wholeheartedly on a person's side and simultaneously wholeheartedly on someone else's side? I realise it sounds contrary but in part it's because I don't believe in “sides” in the first place – I firmly believe we're all on the same side, so that's a start. But I also think it's to do with compassion, and the power that love actually has. I used to think of the word compassion as a wishy washy kind of thing. Increasingly I am feeling and witnessing its strength. So I have experienced compassion as an all embracing, understanding acceptance of who each of us are, with our struggles, our flaws. And that we can be totally loved in that – as can everyone else. I hope you get to feel the power too!