Love Is Your Job
By Rev. Kylie Renner, Senior Minister at the Albuquerque
Center for Spiritual Living
It
is easy to forget that our job is love. When I forget this, I’m always
drawn back to a quote from the Course in Miracles that says that
“absolutely everything is either an expression of love or a call to love.” Everything.
So either we are able to express the love that we are, the love that
we’ve come to be, or we are calling for the remembrance of that. I sometimes
forget that my calls for love will be answered, and I will sometimes get angry
with circumstances and situations designed to realign me with the truth of who
I’ve come here to be…calling me into the remembering of love is my job.
I actually tend to resist these things and in fact, I call them, “things that
have gone wrong,” “people I don’t like,” and “situations that I’d rather not
experience.”
I
picture the job offer coming about like this: the consciousness of all-good,
which is the divine knowing, put out a craigslist ad of a job opportunity that
was opening up here on earth. The position coming available was for love to
arrive on this planet in a way that only you could bring it. And so you saw
this job description listing that included all kinds of things, such as what
you would look like, what you were going to be insecure about, and all the
challenges you would need to overcome. And knowing all of this, having seen
this very honest job description, you decided, not in spite of it, but because
of it that you were going to accept the position.
You
recognized that you could be an expression of love in a unique way which had
never existed before and you were willing to be just that. And so you took the
job, and before you started, you got everyone you would ever know together
in consciousness and planned to meet up at your new job. You all knew that
you wanted to come together on this planet to support one another, to remind
each other that no matter what appearances looked like, that your job was love.
So you gathered together and agreed that through all of space and time, in all
of the amazing places that you could have incarnated, you were going to choose
here and now. So this job you have accepted is the opportunity to remember
that you came here because you have a unique way to express love that needs to
be present on this planet at this time.
There
are millions of ways for us to express our love. In fact, everything we do can
be an expression of love if we allow it to be. We must allow ourselves the
space to remember that love is our job no matter what we’re doing and see what
happens. Maybe we’ll be transformed just by creating the space. There is
room for this love to grow in all of us, and this is one of those jobs you
don’t retire from. It just keeps employing us as we become bigger and bolder
and more powerful expressions of that love. We are the only ones that can
do it; each of us uniquely. It’s high time we let go of all the excuses, our
sense of smallness, of all the ways we think we are broken, and become that
expression of love that we are and allow it to grow.
