To feel ourselves beloved

To feel ourselves beloved or blessed is a gift, one that is freely given by creation should we choose to accept it. This sense of being beloved means we feel we do count and matter, regardless of how we are treated and it encourages us to both feel and give love both to ourselves and others rather than restlessly seek it here there and everywhere outside..

For me the sense of being beloved arises within my heart, body and soul a lot in nature as I see how effortless nature is in being with itself. There seems no judgement in nature at all and the seasons just come and go. Nature is not fixed but it is eternally moving, growing, evolving, blossoming, dying, shedding, decaying and regenerating. It’s energy is grounded in an ultimate source, power and reality that is manifold.

I just came across the following quote and it moved me a lot. I have been drawn to the idea of being the Beloved and seeing others as Beloved after reading a lot of the poetry of Rumi as well as the writing of Henri Nouwen who was helped out of a massive depressive episode by the realization of being chosen or Beloved and shared hat sense with others, both through writing and ministry..

May you all feel Beloved today.

To me the concept of the “Beloved”

conveys not just a nice, cosy,

warm relationship with God,

but one that is joyous, uplifting

and exhilarating because

it is a recognition of who I am.

Nina Yetry