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Love is indeed heaven upon earth;
since heaven above would not be heaven without it;
for where there is not love, there is fear;
but, “Perfect love casteth out fear.”    ~Penn

How shall I do to love? Believe.
How shall I do to believe? Love. ~Lord Leighton

Perfect love and perfect trust…we have all heard those words many times and yet we all still ponder and wonder at what they may mean. They are simple words, love and trust, but how simple is it really to feel them in anything approaching a perfection of grace. Though, when it comes right down to it, what do we really know about love or trust.

Countless movies have been made about love, numberless books, articles, essays, plays, songs, both secular and spiritual. But, despite all that, love itself remains a mystery. This should be clue number one—that Love, capital letter “L” Love—is not something that can truly be understood, because it is something that in its totality is beyond mere human comprehension.

All that we see and call love, is not truly Love, but an extension into our world of a more than physical power. Not that it can’t be a beautiful, even joyful thing to know here in the material world, and not that it cannot lead to opening yourself up to an experience of the greater Power that all physical expressions of it but represent, but it is fundamentally so much more than that. Like the Divine, Love wears many masks in our world and though it is all around us, we cannot experience it fully while yet in the flesh. Though, we may at times come close, or glimpse it for but the briefest of moments.

The same holds true for Trust. For a perfect form of Trust is also a great power, one that we may only hold shades of in our normal everyday life. For a perfection of anything means that it is pure, complete, and utter—and who may claim to have an utter trust in anything, one where not a single doubt creeps in ever. We live and so we doubt, for that is part of being in a physical body which ages and will eventually die.

But Love, perfect Love, may be felt within the spirit. And when one feels that perfection of Love, then one also knows perfect Trust, for the two go hand in hand. Read the rest of this entry »