| You and I are on an incredible journey at | | | | retrieve the love from its hidden place and |
| this very moment, dancing in an exciting | | | | remember from whence one came, is not an |
| adventure that takes us into a new | | | | instant realization. It involves steps to |
| expansiveness beyond our imagination. It is a | | | | allow it to be revealed, like peeling away |
| journey of love, one that knows no limits, | | | | layer upon layer of encrusted negative |
| has no fear, is authentically powerful and | | | | patterns. I had to unconditionally love |
| reaches for all possibilities. Is this your | | | | myself - not an easy assignment after a |
| experience right now? Is your heart smiling | | | | lifetime of self-incrimination - and to |
| with loving endless energy that you are | | | | accept that we are all perfectly created from |
| radiating throughout the world, or are you | | | | nothing but love. We've never been anything |
| lost in your own fearful limiting patterns, | | | | else but love as part of the universal, |
| stuck in a box of your making, stagnant in | | | | perfect love of our Creator; we just |
| movement?I invite you to walk this journey | | | | forgot.So there it was - the secret to |
| with me for a while. I have been on a | | | | finding love - be the love you are seeking |
| journey most of my life searching for love, | | | | and it will find you. I replaced the fear and |
| wanting to know and understand this love, and | | | | all its derivatives with loving energies - |
| only recently found it in the most unexpected | | | | forgiveness, gratitude, compassion, |
| place. Through my journey I often asked other | | | | appreciation, kindness - and the love grew |
| people about love. Many responses were given | | | | and grew. I glided down the path now without |
| about what it meant according to their | | | | the weight of the past. I forgave the people |
| perception - companionship, security, someone | | | | who according to my perception had hurt me, |
| to come home to, sexual intimacy, | | | | going beyond the dimension of human |
| procreation, sharing space, good feelings, | | | | comprehension, and there I found love, real |
| belonging, feeling of family - but it wasn't | | | | love, that moves above the externals of the |
| enough. I knew there was more to real love | | | | physical realm and sees the divine light in |
| than was being revealed. So I kept searching. | | | | every soul. I claimed my birthright power in |
| Perhaps you too are searching. You see, | | | | this process and felt the most healing |
| finding love is the innate desire of all | | | | expansiveness I had ever experienced, way |
| beings on this planet.Most people search for | | | | beyond the realm of my past |
| love in the physical realm. You know, that | | | | knowingness.Knowing this unconditional love |
| zap of "chemistry," candlelight dinners, warm | | | | shifts everything in your mindfulness. I |
| fuzzy feelings, making love, being together | | | | looked at the world - all these people |
| and sharing it all. This is love in the | | | | screaming out for love - feeling such depth |
| physical realm. Although wonderful and | | | | of sadness that it was eluding them as it had |
| exciting, it does not begin to comprehend the | | | | me for so long. I wanted to shout from the |
| vastness of real love. We all know that | | | | rooftops that they already had it within |
| physical love can change rather rapidly - our | | | | them, but I knew they wouldn't listen. The |
| divorce statistics certainly equate this - | | | | world looks with different glasses so love |
| for physical intimacy provides only | | | | seen by their misguided eyes is simply need. |
| short-term gratification with connection that | | | | This is why love fades away for many - they |
| lacks depth. So if physical connections - | | | | are trying so hard to use this interpretation |
| whether partner/partner, friend/friend or | | | | of love to validate themselves, to fill up |
| parent/child - do not provide the filled up, | | | | the empty caverns within them, to feel |
| satisfying, overflowing love, well then, what | | | | secure, approved of, connected, complete, |
| does?The search continued. First was a long | | | | desired - all of ego.Most amazing of all is |
| marriage, but the love faded away until it | | | | that love doesn't need to be achieved, it |
| was gone. There were five children - they | | | | simply is. It's always there for us and in us |
| kept me busy and fulfilled and happy for a | | | | just as air is always present to allow us to |
| while it seemed. I was too busy to look | | | | breathe. Such is real love, divine love, our |
| further so just accepted this was it, even | | | | life-force breathing out to all people on |
| though I longed to know more. Funny thing | | | | this planet. It has no judgment or |
| though, the kids grew up and moved onto their | | | | expectations. It allows for you to be |
| own path, leaving me behind. I tried one | | | | yourself, standing in your own magnificence, |
| business after another, did well in all of | | | | complete as you are. Real love doesn't |
| them, but something was always missing. I was | | | | require approval, does not judge, and isn't a |
| empty and my soul cried out for that love. My | | | | manipulative force.Again my divine guidance |
| face told the story of my heart's condition, | | | | came with urgency to put aside the book I was |
| for what one is on the inside is mirrored to | | | | working on and write The Realness of a Woman, |
| the outside for all to see. I kept looking.I | | | | A Journey for Seeking, Remembering and Being |
| continued my journey and some revealing | | | | Who You Are. As the words poured through me I |
| insights came to me. I looked at other people | | | | realized the powerful effect of this Divine |
| walking past me or even beside me, and saw | | | | Consciousness for a world that needs to |
| the same emptiness in many of them. I was | | | | remember.The journey to love begins and ends |
| puzzled, but also relieved that I wasn't the | | | | within our hearts and souls. The mirror of |
| only one searching. Most were doing what I | | | | life reflects only what it sees. Does your |
| was doing, hurrying here and there thus | | | | mirror reflect the divine eternal love of |
| avoiding time to think about the emptiness, | | | | your Creator so that your heartspace radiates |
| filling their lives with busyness. Sadly, the | | | | love to those who walk the path of life with |
| more I accomplished, the more accolades I | | | | you? Or is your love obscured by the shadows |
| received, the busier I became, the emptier I | | | | of doubt and fear and hidden from the view of |
| was. What a mystery. It surely wasn't turning | | | | the world as you hide in the "box" you |
| out as I had been taught - get married, raise | | | | created for your life? Our journey is for our |
| a family, take care of everyone's needs, work | | | | spiritual awakening to the glorious awareness |
| a job perhaps, go to church, live by the | | | | of a life of love. The love you are seeking |
| "Golden Rule," give and give, and you will | | | | begins as you!Written by Rev. Dr. Carolyn |
| know love.Oftentimes I'd look back and try to | | | | Porter, speaker, trainer, energy healer, |
| figure out where I went wrong according to my | | | | publisher, minister and author of A Woman's |
| perception. I must have done something wrong | | | | Path to Wholeness, The Realness of a Woman |
| or taken a wrong turn. Of course, I thought, | | | | and Put the Dynamo in Your Communication. The |
| the problem is with the marriage; I must have | | | | following excerpt is taken from her book, The |
| married the "wrong" person. No wonder I | | | | Realness of a Woman, A Journey for Seeking, |
| couldn't find love. So perhaps I'll find | | | | Remembering & Being Who You Are."Real love |
| another partner who is the "right" one. Ever | | | | doesn't need to be achieved, it simply is. |
| traveled this path?Years had gone by, illness | | | | Once you have obtained the knowingness |
| overtook me, recovery was slow because of the | | | | |
| internal pain. It was during that time that I | | | | of love as the Universe intended us to feel, |
| understood another dimension of illness - | | | | nothing in your life will ever be the same |
| emotional pain. As I journeyed this path and | | | | again, |
| explored every nook and cranny for answers, I | | | | |
| discovered some wondrous insights and was | | | | and you will see that the love of the world |
| divinely prompted to write my first book - A | | | | is not really love, it is need. This |
| Woman's Path to Wholeness: the Gift is in the | | | | awareness can |
| Process. My intention had been to write a | | | | |
| different book, but I was led down this path. | | | | transform your life and create a passion |
| I realized the core of most physical illness | | | | that grows and grows, a passion for life |
| is found in the emotional and spiritual | | | | itself as you |
| realms and many needed to hear these | | | | |
| insights. Then one day I came to a crossroad | | | | realize the greatness already within your |
| that offered several possibilities. Which one | | | | being. It is recognizing this greatness that |
| was the right path? How could I know? God | | | | already |
| intervened and a cosmic two-by-four, | | | | |
| strategically placed, got my attention so | | | | lies within you that gives you realness in |
| that I realized I needed to step out of my | | | | being the wonderful woman you really are, one |
| comfort zone and grow. My entire life began | | | | who |
| to transform and new doors opened in | | | | |
| miraculous ways. My intuition literally | | | | is genuinely in love with herself!This book |
| exploded with massive force as realms of | | | | is written for those women who seek more from |
| enlightenment overtook my beingness. Perhaps | | | | life, who know they are more and |
| you've experienced this process.One day, as I | | | | |
| rounded a bend, there it was, staring me | | | | are searching to be revealed. Your journey |
| right in the face, the love I had been | | | | through these pages is solely to substantiate |
| searching for all my life. How could I have | | | | |
| missed it all this time I wondered? For the | | | | |
| love I had longed for, cried for, dreamed of, | | | | enlightenment of your soul, the place where |
| prayed for and searched for was with me all | | | | you are real. As you read this book, yearn to |
| the time. It was inside of me, right there in | | | | |
| my soul and heart, and I couldn't see it. It | | | | |
| was on the other side of the fears - the | | | | understand the relevance of knowing the |
| anger, hurt, shame, guilt, defectiveness, | | | | depth and breath of divine love, for the love |
| bitterness, blame, manipulation, control, | | | | you are |
| jealousy, pain, and revenge - completely | | | | |
| shadowed by them. And the love inside of me | | | | knowing is you. Love is all there |
| was reflecting the love of God from whence I | | | | is."Carolyn Porter, D. Div., is an |
| came. I am a child of God! At that moment I | | | | Inspirational Speaker, Author of multiple |
| realized how magnificent I am, a woman of | | | | books, ebooks and audios, Trainer, Spiritual |
| worth, the embodiment of divine, | | | | Wholeness Coach and Energy Facilitator who |
| unconditional, boundless love.I had work to | | | | has experienced the thrill of knowing and |
| do to uncover this love. Release, let go, | | | | feeling love, first for herself, and then for |
| surrender became words to live by. I quit | | | | others. As a result, love pours into her |
| resisting the love and it spilled out to heal | | | | life, being the magnet for attracting that |
| the multidimensional wounds of my life | | | | love. |
| experience and let them go. Learning to | | | | |