By Shanta Gabriel, www.shantagabriel.com
We live in an Ocean of God’s love. I was told that you can come to the Ocean of Abundance with a teaspoon, or a bucket or a tanker truck — the Ocean does not care. The Ocean of God’s Love is eternally available. You can take as much as you need.
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God’s Love is the Ocean in which we live, move and have our being. We swim in this Ocean like a little fish, so much a part of Divine Love that we forget that it is all around us. And yet if we only turn a small part of our attention toward this Infinite Source, our entire being is illuminated with the Light it radiates. What a gift!
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I spent years feeling alone, alienated and cut off from love. I tried to fill myself with many things that did not satisfy that deep need within me. I strived for all that I was brought up to believe would make me happy. I found out very early that all that the world considered to be successful proved to feel very empty to me.
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It then took a long time for me to find out how to live a spiritual life in a country that considered that to be less than important; in fact, too weird to even consider. And when I was trying to receive love and approval from outside myself, I experienced rejection and felt even more separate.
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The good news I discovered was that those experiences were my soul’s requirement for sending me within myself to find the love that I truly needed. In this way I was coerced into an ongoing focus on my spiritual practice, which then became a rich source of inspiration and deep abiding love.
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It seems as though many people are feeling bereft of the love they so want to experience in life. If sharing my process assists one person in opening to the Divine Nourishment available to all of us, the struggles that I experienced become more worthwhile.
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Receiving this message encouraged me and created a new deep awareness that even in those moments when I was not focusing on my spirit, God’s Love was continuously working to keep me nourished. I know I can trust that Divine Love is available for me always. All I need to do is open my heart and allow it to be filled to overflowing.
Divine Presence,
Thank you for supporting me and blessing me with your Love. May I become more aware that your Love is always with me, guiding me and protecting me, even when I am not paying attention.
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With every step I take may I, and all of humanity, know truly within our innocent hearts that we are not alone and that Divine Love always exists for us. And so it is.
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Shanta Gabriel, February 14, 2016