A Time for Love

From the Desk of Ronelle Roode, a Featured Partner of The SWAT Institute:

It’s February, ah yes, the month of celebrating love and romance. Hearts, chocolate, bundles of roses – this is the month where reminders for the idea of lasting relationships abound.

What is this thing? This often elusive thing called love? And why is it so intoxicating and such a desired state of being?

These are comments borrowed from Wikipedia, about the topic of love:

Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection; and “the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”.

In English, love refers to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure (“I loved that meal”) to interpersonal attraction (“I love my partner”).

I just love these descriptions about love – hmmm – did I really just say that? I did, in my effort to demonstrate how easily we use the word love. I love my car……I love this ice cream……..I love that house – ah yes, love is freely tossed into conversation – and that’s okay.  At least to me…..I’d rather hear positives than negatives in any conversational phrases.

I can only surmise that those who are embedded in hate and anger, are likely those who desperately long, somewhere deep within, for love – to feel that they too, matter.

But when I look at the idea of love – the quest for love can be both a conscious effort and a subconscious desire.

Look back – to a time when we’re infants, toddlers – tiny beings filled with delight at the seemingly endless offering of unconditional love.  In our newborn state, we radiate love in all its beauty – and if blessed and fortunate, are borne into a household where those around us coo and cuddle us, in a mystical environment…… of joyous love. In that precious, fleeting age in our lives – do we completely navigate the brain and comprehend that what we are feeling is love?

And what is it? This magical energetic force that can bring us to feel a rich fullness of warmth and happiness…this emotion that hundreds of composers and writers have created an ode to……..love – it truly is an amazing emotion.

I feel beyond blessed to know this feeling with my husband.  But I also feel equally blessed in the moments where this emotion overcomes my being from other sources.

Like when my niece arrives from overseas for the holidays, or my friends and I hug just to say hello.  When I feel this genuine expression from the letters my aunts and uncles send me. I feel that deep, magical energy. And what of the joy that becomes ten-fold for me when I express my love to those in my world.  I even feel this same wave of emotion when I recall the most treasured memories of my parents – my only way to relive those moments of love, now that they’ve passed on.

Here is one of the most heartfelt movie moments encompassing love for me – think back to the end of The Blindside, when Michael is heading to college. As the family gathers to say their goodbyes to him, his adopted mom, Leigh Anne, says a cordial goodbye and walks off and gets into their vehicle.  Michael then states to her that he’d like a “real hug.”  That moment really sets the heartstrings in motion for me.  Here is a young man embarking on the excitement of college-life, yet in this moment, it’s his gentleness that radiates – the essential component that makes us human – that makes us thinking and feeling beings. It’s the idea that in that moment, a tender hug from his mom is all this gentle-giant needs – a moment to feel cared about, special, thought of………..a moment to feel loved – and to offer love.

And in the movie of my own life – of the many moments that touch me deeply are those individual moments where I said my final goodbyes and words of love to my parents. My entire being fills with melancholy chills when I remember telling my mother, and my father, one last time, how much I loved them.

When I think of my own perception of love – it isn’t necessarily the elements of conquering love in the romantic sense.  Rather, it’s the knowing that whether love comes from a significant, a friend, a relative – from someone here with us on earth – or from the memories or from spirit, on the wings of angels – it’s the knowing we mattered…to someone – we are thought of, we are cared about – we’re cherished………..and we’ve been loved.

Ronelle Roode
Featured Partner of The SWAT Institute
Website – www.ronelleroode.com
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/ronelle.roode

BIO:
Dance Educator (Master Teacher/Adjudicator), SWAT Institute Ambassador, Luminary/Angelic Oracle Card Reader, Zumba® Instructor, Published Writer, Artisan.

Ronelle Roode has led a life of following her dreams and also her intuition. Ronelle continues to inspire women through her Zumba® fitness classes, continues to sell her “earth angel creations” line of Swarovski Crystal keepsake gifts & jewellery, and is currently working at completing her book about the heart-felt lessons & their impact she experienced when caring for her beloved mother who succumbed to breast cancer.

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