If Love is the Answer, What is the Question?

If Love is the Answer, What is the Question?

by Linda Heron Wind, Ph.D.

If we believe that love is the answer to all of life's questions, what exactly are those questions? Some of the more obvious questions seem to be the big ones, like, "How can we create a more peaceful world?" or "What is the most powerful thing in the universe?" We all could easily answer those questions with "love." But what about the smaller questions that are more personal and connected with our daily lives?

A question that came up for me the other day was, "How can I actualize a vision of children learning life skills and values in school?" I realized that love is the answer, that is, I must infuse the vision with love and it would materialize. Another question was, "How can I feel less tired?" When I contemplated how love could be the answer to that question, I could see that every time I have been in the vibration of love I have had a lot of energy. Then there was the people question, "What would be the best way to handle a child that is acting out?" Again, love seems to be what is needed even when boundaries are being set. Or "How can we best handle a disagreement at a meeting about how an issue should be handled?" Love seems to be the foundation for any harmonious action. We become disharmonious when we feel separated not when we feel loved.

My seven year old grandson asked me what seemed like a simple question the last time I visited. "Grandma," he said, "Is God in a snail?" My answer was quick, "Of course! God is in a snail, a flower, a rock, a tree, a dog, the grass, you, me. God is in everything." Feeling good that I had answered this profound question so easily, I was unprepared for the next question, "Why?" As I thought about how to answer this question, I was aware that I have always defined God as love. Even when they showed pictures of the gray-haired bearded man sitting on a throne in the clouds in Sunday School, I knew that wasn't God. And I still know that what we call God is a vibrating force within everything, perhaps the cosmic glue that holds the atoms together. So I answered, "Because God is what everything is made of." I was grateful when she said, "Oh" rather than another, "Why."

All of the holy books teach us that we must see God wherever we look, so if we substitute the word love for God and see love wherever we look, would that change our daily lives? It certainly has changed my life. I can see love working in my life everyday. To give a few examples, I was driving in the driveway the other day thinking about the salmon that I had watched last year as it tried to make it over the falls in the creek that runs through the yard. About ten minutes later, I happened to glance at the falls while on my way to let the dogs out of their pen. Just at the moment of my glance, a two and a half foot salmon leaped over the falls. If I try to find the salmon by going and looking for them, I never see them. It is only when I think of them and the feeling of loving their beauty rushes over me that they hear me and show themselves.

I was drawing a card from the Mayan Oracle deck on my birthday. As I shuffled, I wondered what card would come up. I thought of my favorite card, Ix, and how I love the colors of that card. I drew Ix. After meditating and moving into a loving vibration, I stepped outside admiring the beauty of a cloudy dawn. Just as I looked to the East the morning star peeked out from behind a cloud, and then was gone the next instant. We all have these experiences when we enter into communion with love.

Likewise, the trees catch me at a moment when I am loving them, offering me a poem. If I go out with the intention of getting a poem from the trees, they are silent. It is as if when in the state of love, I enter a magical world where I am connected with everything and we are in a constant dialog or playing in the same symphony. This world is inaccessible to me when I am not in that state. So when we say that love is the answer, perhaps in this magical world of love, questions cease to exist. When we come face to face with what is real, there is nothing but love.

Questions are usually answered with stories, and stories create interesting dramas in our lives, but if you are looking for real answers to your questions, take them into the vibration of love and watch the world of harmony and connection appear.

Love is the answer
Because only love is real
There is no question

If you have comments on these articles or ideas for future topics, call Linda Heron Wind at (585) 924-5620 or send e-mail to LHWind@aol.com.

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