Because of Your Love
You are engaged in casual conversation.
You are at home, having dinner with family and friends.
Then your eyes meet.
It's different than a normal gaze.
It's different than just general attention to the words and the path of conversation that has been following along.
It's very different.
For a moment, even a brief moment, you suddenly find a recognition in this person's face, this person's eyes.
A recognition that you have never seen before.
A realization that your friendship is not new.
It is not something that you've just discovered or stumbled across.
It is a sudden realization, a sudden revelation that you haven't just recently met.
You've known each other before.
You've known each other, a long time ago.
You've known each other forever.
The realization isn't like you were lovers or intimately involved.
This is a mortal function of this life here on earth.
It's a realization that you were friends, true friends, deeply in love with who the other is and who the other could become.
And you know you knew each other very well.
As if you'd spent a great deal of time together.
As if you'd known each other for an eternity.
You suddenly realize you did live before you came to this earth.
You did have another life before this one.
You did laugh and love and learn and grow with others who were to be your contemporaries here on earth.
And yes, you did love.
A pure and innocent, simple and honest love for others who are your true friends.
Your true bosom companions.
Your true soul mates.
As you both sit, transfixed in one another's gaze you realize in that moment, that brief moment, that you are eternal beings, eternal friends.
And you are in love with each other.
Not a romantic love, but a sibling and family love.
A love of mutual honor and respect for who they are and who they were before this life.
You find your heart both rejoicing and aching for one another.
Praying that you will both endure the trials and challenges of this short existence.
Praying that you may both survive, that you may both triumph, that you may both be blessed with the opportunity of sibling association and love in this life, and the next.
It is true.
We will discover that we have loved and that we will love many in this life.
We will love them for who they are, and for what they will help us to become..
..
Because of your love.
You are at home, having dinner with family and friends.
Then your eyes meet.
It's different than a normal gaze.
It's different than just general attention to the words and the path of conversation that has been following along.
It's very different.
For a moment, even a brief moment, you suddenly find a recognition in this person's face, this person's eyes.
A recognition that you have never seen before.
A realization that your friendship is not new.
It is not something that you've just discovered or stumbled across.
It is a sudden realization, a sudden revelation that you haven't just recently met.
You've known each other before.
You've known each other, a long time ago.
You've known each other forever.
The realization isn't like you were lovers or intimately involved.
This is a mortal function of this life here on earth.
It's a realization that you were friends, true friends, deeply in love with who the other is and who the other could become.
And you know you knew each other very well.
As if you'd spent a great deal of time together.
As if you'd known each other for an eternity.
You suddenly realize you did live before you came to this earth.
You did have another life before this one.
You did laugh and love and learn and grow with others who were to be your contemporaries here on earth.
And yes, you did love.
A pure and innocent, simple and honest love for others who are your true friends.
Your true bosom companions.
Your true soul mates.
As you both sit, transfixed in one another's gaze you realize in that moment, that brief moment, that you are eternal beings, eternal friends.
And you are in love with each other.
Not a romantic love, but a sibling and family love.
A love of mutual honor and respect for who they are and who they were before this life.
You find your heart both rejoicing and aching for one another.
Praying that you will both endure the trials and challenges of this short existence.
Praying that you may both survive, that you may both triumph, that you may both be blessed with the opportunity of sibling association and love in this life, and the next.
It is true.
We will discover that we have loved and that we will love many in this life.
We will love them for who they are, and for what they will help us to become..
..
Because of your love.
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