Hi friends!I’ve
always loved doors! In my life, they represent
fresh opportunities, adventures, pointers, lessons, revelations, celebrations,
and more.
In our WP community, opening doors translates into a renewed appreciation for our beloved fellow bloggers and their deeply cherished blogs.
Through my Doors Series, I aim to give our fellow bloggers the gift of sharing a piece of their world. I invite them to guest post on my blog and share their message, their story, their heart. I also encourage them to show how our blogs and worlds link together in love.
After
all, IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE. ❤️
Today, we happily knock on the door of a dear fellow blogger:
Dear Yeka, thanks for this opportunity, bless you 🙂
PASSIONATE LOVE
Love by definition is passionate. A half-hearted love isn’t much of a love at all!
I want to share a passion of mine, which is writing. That might seem a bit obvious — of course I like writing — I’m a blogger! But my passion isn’t just writing for writing’s sake, but to share the love of God in Jesus, the Savior of the world. I wrote during my full time education. I had to! But I enjoyed it. After Uni, I got mentally ill. Most of the writing I would do would be to scribe Scripture, which was a comfort to me in my mental distress.
Then an old Uni friend, Eric Mwathi, himself an excellent poet, encouraged me to get into poetry. I’m not very good at it, but it’s a great way of expressing yourself, very therapeutic.
I’ve actually written and self-published a book of animal themed children’s poetry that you can check out on Amazon if you want- “Menagerical Animalariumisterious Ponderosaeticalioness”— something like that — I might have forgotten how to spell it properly!
Then a friend and mentor told me I should start writing in earnest. I don’t know why, because she’d never seen my writing. But I started writing daily devotionals based on a daily reading Bible a friend gave me. Initially I emailed them out to a few friends, but now I mostly just stick them on the blog and the YouVersion Bible app.
When studying Proverbs with an old pastor, we stumbled across a phrase: “Watching Daily At Wisdom’s Gates”. He joked that it would make a good name for my writing ministry, and the name’s stuck!
People tend to assume that the meaning of life is the pursuit of happiness. I think the Beatles were closer to the truth when they sang, “All you need is love”. But I would suggest that all we need is God’s love, not necessarily romantic love.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and gave His beloved Son for us, to cover our sins in His blood.
The meaning of life is to wholeheartedly love the God who passionately loves us, and to love one another as He has loved us.
If you know that love, tell it to the world! If you don’t, come and receive God’s love for you. It doesn’t matter who you are and what you’ve done- He doesn’t want you to perish but to have eternal life.
All you need to do is turn from selfish sin and enter into His boundless love.
God bless, and lots of love,
Robert
P.S. I’ve also written a book of devotionals available on Amazon called Watching Daily At Wisdom’s Gates.
Thanks so much for opening your door to us, dear Robert!️❤️
You have a very powerful story to tell. And yet, you help us refocus on THE ULTIMATE POWER STORY. GOD’S LOVE.
Through your journey, you give us a peek into renewed hope, comforting steadiness, and unshakable assurance.
But above all, you give us your gift of LOVE. Your precious gift of
inviting us to receive GOD’S LOVE.
A love that know no bounds. A love that gives everything without a price
tag. A love that says, “I love you exactly for who you are ….. just as you are
right now.” After all, a half-hearted love isn’t
much of a love at all!
May we all be warmed by the embrace of God and His whole-hearted, priceless, unconditional love for us all! ❤️
Hi friends!I’ve always loved doors! In my life, they represent fresh opportunities, adventures, pointers, lessons, revelations, celebrations, and more.
In our WP community, opening doors translates into a renewed appreciation for our beloved fellow bloggers and their deeply cherished blogs.
Through my Doors Series, I aim to give our fellow bloggers the gift of sharing a piece of their world. I invite them to guest post on my blog and share their message, their story, their heart. I also encourage them to show how our blogs and worlds link together in love.
After all, IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE.️❤️
Today, we happily knock on the door of a dear friend and fellow blogger:
It is an honor and such a pleasant surprise to be asked to write a Guest Post by Yeka. I have been very busy with some personal work and have not been blogging. But there was no way I could say no to this immensely loving friend and fellow blogger. I would gladly fly thousands of miles to have one hug from her.
She has gone through
extremely challenging times and has come out of these stronger, more resilient and
more filled with love. And she keeps sharing her love and her light with all️.
I share her belief and
faith: Only Love!
For me too, love is all there is.
God is Love and Love is God!
Love heals.
Love redeems.
Let us all join together in this divine circle of eternal love.
WHAT IS MY
RELIGION
I am a Hindu by birth. But if someone asks me what is my religion, I would say:
• It is compassion
• It is kindness
• It is being humane
And my God is: LOVE
My God is not sitting in a temple or a church or a mosque or any other place of worship. There is no god sitting on any mount or in any heaven!!
The love in our hearts is God! If you are kind, if you are compassionate, you are godly, you are spiritual!
There is no God outside of you. There is no God outside of me. There is no God who can ever be explained or defined!
Love doesn’t need any language. Love is a feeling and it can only be experienced. Love only needs loving! And God Being Love needs only loving. And God can only be experienced.
Hindu scriptures describe God as: Satchitananda — Sat Chit Ananda
Sat: Ever Existent
Chit: Ever Conscious
Ananda: Ever new Bliss
That is my God. That is the God I worship. That is the God I love. And that is the God I see and feel in the places of worship of all faiths and religions. Once we are filled with love we shall always be blissful.
And ultimately my Father and I are One. Indian rishis and scriptures had said that too, millenniums ago: I am He. My soul, my love is a vital and inseparable part of the Great Spirit, of Divine Love.
The Holy Geeta, Bible and Quran sit side by side on the shelves of the bookstores and they never fight! Those who fight are the ones who have never read them or have not imbibed their message of love, universal peace and brotherhood!
There is not and there can’t be any difference in: Christ Consciousness or Krishna Consciousness or the Consciousness of Prophet Muhammad and Buddha; or any self-realized being.
There is no God of vengeance and there is no God we should be fearful of.
God is Love
God is Peace
God is Joy
God is Bliss
God is Patience
God is Compassion
God is Light
God is Purity
God is Beauty
Unselfishness is God
Nature is God
God is in the fragrance of the flowers.
God is manifest in every sunrise and every sunset.
God is manifest in the smile of the child and in the hug of a friend.
God is there in every pure emotion and thought.
We are going through very turbulent times. There is so much unrest and uncertainty in the young as well as old. The only way we can help the world is by changing our consciousness; and by not getting sucked into the negativity being spewed by media, the politicians and their allies. Once we raise our consciousness, once we become love, once we tear the veil of separation, we help whole of humanity.
I will love till my last breath.
In Divine Friendship,
Ashok
Thanks so much for opening your door to us, dear Ashok!❤️
You have shared your freedom that comes with going beyond religion. Your liberation from the polarizing and divisive stands that institutions take. Your emancipation from biases, labels, and judgments.
And in your life, faith is a way of life. You have inspired us to be more tolerant with healthy respect and acceptance, with open minds and loving hearts. Instead of focusing on differences, we can acknowledge our similarities in goodness of soul and spirit. We can press ever so passionately into all that is True Love. For God is Love and Love is God. ❤️
IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE 