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:
Thank you, Yeka, for your loving, kind invitation to Guest Post on your blog. I am honored and humbled by the experience! Your tender heart is perfectly reflected in the words you post, and I feel so blessed to call you my friend. Your life-resilience is admirable beyond words…
I have many passions in my life:
• God
• Family
• Children and their laughter
• Writing whatever God puts on my heart
• Etc… (the list is long)
More than likely, many of you reading this have very similar passions. For this post, however, I will reflect on our most common – writing.
While I’ve always enjoyed making up stories or rhymes, especially when my children were young, I have only recently realized how much I love to write. We will call it a latent talent, although I believe it has always lived inside of me.
In my recently published book of poetry I feature 40 faith-based poems. It’s my belief that God allowed me to write these poems, and do so with little effort. I feel blessed for that, and I give credit where credit is due! (I wish formatting had been as easy! 😁)
I hope that my love of God, family and mankind in general is reflected in my posts out here on WordPress. It is what feeds my heart and my fingers when I write.
It is intentional when I write something out of sync with my other posts. A short story or song or whatever, as I am passionate about staying as broad as possible to include as many tastes for the readers who follow me.
Thank you for all those who follow my blog. You are my blessing every day!
I love all feedback too, as well as all the sweet and kind messages when words I’ve written touch the reader. That is what keeps me going!
WordPress is such a beautiful release for so many diverse thoughts for all the writers. I wish it could be duplicated and the heartfelt intent we feel for one another could spread around the world.
Maybe, just maybe, we can find tolerance, acceptance and love for our neighbor, regardless of who they are, and in doing so make this world a better place for our children. A dreamer is going to dream, and, sometimes, dreams do come true!
My wish for you all is for you to find your inner peace and see the good in others, so we can truly love our neighbors as ourselves!
Love is really the key!
Thanks so much for opening your door to us, dear Kevin! ❤️
Your immeasurable faith in God touches our hearts and minds with power and depth.
While your love for God, family, and mankind fuel your passion to write, your all-inclusive approach to your posts invites even more readers to your faith-filled blog.
As you live and breathe faith, you inspire us to look beyond ourselves. You encourage us to look with greater love towards our neighbors. You help us believe that we can truly make a difference in our world.
And we echo your wish of inner peace and goodness. For Love is really the key to open the doors of our hearts and minds. ❤️
I read the blog whose link I posted above – and it brought sunshine to me on this gloomy, gray Friday morning. I hope it brightens your day, too. It is so true… we can’t rely on outward circumstances to bring us our joy. The door opens inward!
When things look cloudy and gray
Just turn your focus away
From the things that are dark and gloomy
Let joy spring from your heart today.
Life IS an amazing journey
It DOES all begin and end with LOVE
So open the door to your heart’s love
And let JOY bring you strength from above.
You may be facing some darkness
Your skies may be cloudy and gray
But they don’t have to dampen your spirits
Let the Son shine in to brighten your day.
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. ❤️
“To express, to be loved, to be nurtured, and adored….” ❤️
This is what my heart has longed for all my life. For LOVE is the language that I speak. And I am so deeply humbled that this heart’s desire has been realized in this utterly precious poem. Richness of art and abundance of heart …… EMERGING FROM THE DARK NIGHT! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE 