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