Love and the Gods
We all have our own bent on what we think love is. I am going to tell you some
of the ways I have seen love. Love is a mother lying on her deathbed,
desperately seeking homes for her three youngest daughters. She and her
husband know that he and her other children will never be able to care for
those little girls the way little girls need to be cared for. Rather than let
those children be raised without a mothers love, homes with mothers were found
for those little girls. Love is that same father a year later looking for
homes for the remainder of his children. His children were running wild in the
streets and had no direction in their lives. He found foster homes for all but
three of them. He did not give his children up because he did not love them,
but because he did love them. Love is childless couples wanting, needing
children, taking those children into their own homes, taking them into their
hearts, making them part of their families, providing them with comfort, food
and most of all with love.
Love is taking the time, even in difficult situations to meet each other's
needs. It is taking time to be tender and healing in our dealings with others.
It is rejoicing when only one of us prospers. Love is being careful with our
words and deeds to avoid embarrassing each other, or to avoid putting each
other in awkward situations. It is forgiving and forgetting past offenses so
that we don't hold them against each other.
Now I want to tell you what love is not. It is not that fuzzy feeling that
happens when a boy meets a girl; that is infatuation. It is not the hormonal
rush that makes a person want the body of someone else; that is lust. It is
not some super-spiritual quality that makes you want to do good things
for other people; that is altruism. Real love is not sensual nor is it
sentimental and it is not theatrical.
The ancient Greeks used three different words for love. Philia was used to
express the affection of brotherly love. Eros was used to denote romantic
love. Then there is Sacri, That is sacrificial love. This sacrificial love
can only be known from the actions it prompts. The Gods are the source
of this sacrificial love. They give much asking little in return. That we
express our feelings openly to Them and to our brothers and sister. That
we honor the gifts that is nature. That we honor Their love and caring for
us, Their children. Yes, a great sacrifice. I don't think so.
There are two sides to love: positive and negative. Seven positive and
six negative. In the following are points defining what it is to be a Pagan
with your love and trust in the hands of the Gods:.
1. The love of the Gods is patient. Love is long-suffering; it controls the mind
before it gives freedom of expression to action or passion. A man or woman of
the Gods have a lifestyle of having a long fuse, of being patient toward others
within the Pagan community as well as those of other callings. The Great Gods
continue to show us patience and also patience to all mankind even as they
are mocked by those of different callings.
2. The love of the Gods is expressed in kindness. Our lifestyle on earth
filled with acts of kindness to men, women, and children. The Gods continue today
to express that kindness to us, Their children and to the world. All we have to do is
look around us to see Their kindness in everything.
3. The love of the Gods rejoice in openness. There is nothing hidden or secret;
all is out in the open. They speak to us in the light of the spirits before. They are
alive in reality as the Gods define reality. They were, are, and will always be the
our Parents.
4. The love of the Gods always protects; it bears all things. They did and still
do endure, support, and cover all things. They provide the power necessary to
help us grow in our love for all Them and for each other. Never looking to
something as failure.
5. The love of the Gods always trusts; it believes all things. They put the best
possible interpretation on people's actions. Love is ready to start all
relationships on a positive foundation. Love trusts the heart, words, and
actions of others, and when they fail, love moves in alongside and works with
the person to help them find their way back to love with the Gods.
6. The love of the Gods hopes all things. They eagerly desire and continue to
desire good for all those who come in contact with Them. They see the heart of
Their beloved children.
7. The love of the Gods always perseveres; it endures all things. When their children
refused to strike back in times of stress, prosecution, and ill treatment. When
others hurl their insults at them, remember that the Gods are always there to aide
you in your perseverance. You have the strength through Them not retaliate
or make threats. Instead, entrusted yourself to Them that walk among us in love.
Their presence felt in the sun and moon, the trees and grass the sky and earth and all
that is in between. They are here, They have always been here.
8. The Gods are not envious or jealous when Their spiritual children are honored or
exalted as godly men and women on earth. They rejoice as we rejoice.
9. They are not prideful, nor do They boast about Themselves nor expect us to extol
Their virtues to other than the true seeker to Paganism.
10. The Gods do not act rudely toward others. They do not embarrass Their children,
but show through tender guidance that love and peace is the way to the Eternal Vault.
And Paradise.
12. The Gods are not self-seeking, and are not of such a mind as to set Themselves
above the individual lessons of Their children
13. The Gods are not easily angered. They do not ware their feelings on Their sleeves.
They are alive in the personal power of Their children. And praise and reward them
as they grow and learn each new lesson.
14. The Gods do not keep a record of wrongs. Each life is divine and only when we
have learn each lesson set before us do we move on to Eternity with Them.
Remembering that failing to do so would result in eternity without the presence of
the Gods.
There we have the points of love from the Gods. Our Mother and Father who love
us and wish us to love each other. Society coming together regardless of the
manner we practice our love for Them (Christian, Jewish Muslim etc…).
Finding peace through tolerance and love for our fellow man.
Written by: Thors Hammer
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