
February 2021
What does LOVE mean to you?

Donna Gohr
For two days now, I’ve been writing notes on some scrap mail. Doing laundry, thinking of love and heading for my little paper, covered in writing that goes in all directions – things squeezed in, written down the sides.. you know those papers.
When I was a girl, my uncle Dennis gave me John Denver’s Greatest hits. I loved that album, where I first heard Perhaps Love – one of the first things on my little paper. My next notes… Love’s THE universal driving force of creation, giving and receiving, smell and memory, showing our authentic selves...
Another song that’s always struck me: Massive Attack’s version of “Love Love is a verb. Love is a doing word.” ... being in service. “Sigh,” I’ll never pin this down. Great poets have attempted this.. but me? Doing dishes, I realized love was elusive, vast... more notes. It’s the middle of the night now and I wonder how to bring this back around to me. I think about my family and my grandchildren’s little faces. That’s love. I think about my dog, Daisy and the way she looks at me. That’s love. Sunlight on a flower. That’s love. I think about a friend’s smile. That’s love. A hug downtown. That’s love. Love is so many things. Love is everything.
I’ll leave you with John Denver’s last verse from his song: “Perhaps love is like the ocean - full of conflict, full of change; like a fire when it’s cold outside, or thunder when it rains. If I should live forever and all my dreams come true, my memories of love will be of you.” Love to you ALL.

Chelsea Braden
What does love mean to me?
Love, a bi-product of consciousness, is intrinsic in human nature. Love, and to function from a place of love, is a choice that must be made in each passing moment, in each interaction that we encounter. When one chooses to be conscious in each moment, they are choosing love and it is limitless and unconditional. The foundation of family and community must be built from love if it can withstand the pressures of a society built from fear. In my opinion, love is all we need to rebuild our society and our home (Earth). Choose love and welcome peace in all aspects of your life.
So what does love mean to me? Love means choosing to be conscious, to embrace all life with the attention of an open heart and an open mind and trusting in the great mystery of all things.

Sarah Trujillo
To me, love means an all-encompassing acceptance of people, friends, things, situations, and I think it's everywhere and it can be everywhere. And I always say, "you can't fight the light with the dark," because love's everywhere. You could put it there and there won't be darkness there.
I also always say “love is unconditional,” so if you're facing something, anything that's troubling you, if you step back and visit with a gaze of love, put it into context of how you'd give advice to someone you really loved, that always will illuminate the path that should be taken or the path that's going to be more winning than if you just think about it with your mind. So love is omnipresent and love is in so many things, it's hard to just nail it down. But it's acceptance. And it's self-love, too, so it's boundaries so that you can love from afar, but still you're protected and able to give. If you emanate love, you will never be seeking or without. We are love. We have only to remember and discover it within.

Tim Brenner
Love. One of the hardest to grasp of human experiences. We know love as a manifest feeling, as a motivation to do good, and as a romanticized feel-good concept that is difficult to hold onto. What love means to me is ever-changing, ever developing. I know when I'm in it, and sometimes know when I am not. It's a spiritual guide, and in our best understanding, firm and resolute.
The best guide for me is in the Bible, in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians:
1 Corinthians 13:1 “If I speak in the tongues of men, or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 13:5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 13:6 Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. 13:7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
When I read this passage, I know if I am acting or thinking in love. It is a beautiful guidepost.

Bill Peck
Many have forgotten that our natural state is to be loving and supportive of each other. I have watched love slowly removed from society over the past few decades, and in recent years noticed that this is orchestrated by a violent secretive cabal. How can I love these Satanic/Pedophiles and their slave monkeys who want to do away with humanity? Why love these tyrants who force us into psyops, double binds, and degrading rituals that chase love away? Simple. The other option is to fear them which helps no one, and leads to slavery.
Love is engaged, and requires showing up fully. Attend a public meeting. Speak your truth, meet your neighbors, find out what others are concerned with. Don’t run your errands until your mood is grounded. Avoid schedules and be available to others. Offer a kind word to those serving you and be sure to open doors and send smiles.
Love is our creative expression that is fierce like a lion and soft as a flower, depending on how we are serving others in the moment. To be in love, live your highest truth. In addition to prayer, I reserve a bit of personal energy to support others as a daily intention.

Aha By Arnold Hector Alba ©, all rights reserved.
Love is trusting in our heavenly father, our creator. Love is being faithful to your partner and families and friends. Love is being kind and patient with the world and everyone around you, remembering who we all are, how we got here and why we are here. A parent's self-sacrificing love for his/her child rejoicing in the truth and the light in the way taught to us by God's only begotten son Jesus is love. The act of giving without the thought of receiving, forgiveness and asking for forgiveness are acts of love. Sharing truth, food and abundance and being in honor at all times are acts of love. Expressing unconditional love, forgiveness and gratitude at all times on God's beautiful green earth while respecting and honoring all of Gods creations including ourselves and each other is what love is.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 15:12: This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
John 15:17: These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
Love is a man who wipes your tears away even after being left hanging on the cross to die for our sins in order to show us the truth and the light and the way to everlasting life in God’s kingdom of heaven on earth. Hey Yah!! HalleluYah! Praise YAH in the name of Yahua (Jesus), son of YAH! God bless all of God’s children and creations.