i am love

emmanuel dahger

i am love

the title came to me last night in my prayers. each morning before i arise and each night before i sleep, i send thanks and 'i am' statements to the divine intelligence which is source. my own i am centers around my own ability to create my own life.

last night, my final 'i am' statement was 'i am love.' it was interesting because it was not contrived. i had others in mind, but when this one presented, i knew its purpose.

it struck me because this was the first time this particular 'i am' had made its way into my imagination, and of course, i knew its truth the moment it came. being a person who prioritizes keeping my own countenance toward my chosen trajectory (awareness), i imagined the possibility of 'i am love.' i realized that (seemingly) the world's idea of love is actually more the idea of 'agreement,' and if two people agree this lends itself to the ability (will) to love.

being pure emotion, love itself is a natural outcome of allowing feelings of uplift, of good, to live and thrive in our hearts. love itself is not influenced by will, but when emotions lean toward malice (ill), love is often abandoned and finds itself overtaken by its only opposite, fear.

in the presence of love, fear may not know itself : 

in the presence of fear, only love may assuage.

of course, mind being mind (with ego in the mix), implications of this particular i am statement began popping in, questioning my ability around the possibility : but (mind said), what about the current political landscape! can you really 'love' that there is an oafish boor (and his facilitators and followers) in the oval office? and what about racists, panhandlers, thieves? what about drug dealers and abusers, and what about rapists, murderers, worldwide zealotry and corruption and perpetrators of war? ...and what about ... and what about ... and what about ... etc...


as each one would creep in to challenge my statement of love, i understood that i am (also) free. it is my choice to love, unconditionally, as i am, where i stand. i may choose to love while disagreeing. i may choose to love while protesting. i may choose to find a way to love, even in the face of atrocity. i may choose to love while also understanding that there will always be opposition, or that love may not always be wonderful. if history has any bearing, there will also always be atrocity : this does not mean i am not able to love : quite the opposite : my love, your love, our love is needed more than ever to heal the ills! sometimes love takes the face of a child, sometimes the face of a pet, sometimes the face of a new romance, or maybe a relative. LOVE IS NEEDED in this world!

what i most understood about love in that moment is that my responsibility is to be love, as it is who i am, and in fact, who we all are. others must find their own way into who we all are, but my responsibility is to send love into the world, whenever and wherever i am given or create opportunity to do so.

because i don't love actions of others doesn't translate (by my own choice) to fear (or hate or violence or any of the ilk of fear), and therefore loathing of their place in divine intelligence.

i am accountable to myself for keeping my own countenance, 

and for sending love into the world.

dr. king said it beautifully:

darkness cannot drive out darkness : 

only light can do that.

hate cannot drive out hate : 

only love can do that.

dr. martin luther king, jr.

it is my divine right to love : to be love in this world ... and today, in my waking, i know that because love decided to drop in on me last night and create itself a clearing in my consciousness, 

i am love.

... and i am blessed.

... and one more cell in the body of the soul of creation gives itself into love.

namaste. thanks for being here!