Brother Richard

We persist in the truth always of how we are.

But we can at least love the part of us that has been hurt.

We can choose to love back into fullness and wholeness the part of us that has been hurt.

We do not have to wait to deserve love.

Love is our fundamental nature.

And dwelling in that fundamental nature, we can at least hope and invite the intention that even those who have hurt us may grow themselves in love so much that they would understand what they have done

and so far as they can, make amends.

This is an intention we can carry when we find it difficult to generate love.

For now, though, we gently allow the two circles

of those we are in loving relationship with, and of those who are in our wider circle to fade.

And we return to the immense grace of knowing ourselves as fundamentally beloved.

Beloved.

And we can say inwardly, I am loved infinitely, eternally, and unconditionally.

And I choose to live from love towards all others insofar as I can.

Gently then breathing in and breathing out.

Gently beginning to move fingers and toes.

Taking a great stretch if need be.

And then allow the sound of the bell to draw you back to the activity of the day.

Welcome back.

One of the ways in which our interior reality is often described within the world of meditation is as weather.