Journey with Love

The truth of the matter is that love still makes the world go round. I thought love was for fools, but then it visited me, touched me by the hands and asked me to follow her and when I asked why, all She could tell me as that ‘you will know when the time comes’ and I decided to comply. It couldn’t hurt to find out more about her.
She told me we were going on a journey. We started the journey, making good distance. The journey seemed endless, yet I was curious as to our final destination. The road was not easy; it was full of obstacles and ditches. I struggled to keep up with love because I fell at almost every step. I started running in order to catch up with her for the many times I fell, yet she never changed her pace, was never in a hurry and was unfailingly patient with me.
I kept falling and before long my whole body was covered with different magnitudes of scratches, cuts and bruises. It got to the point when I could no longer walk and I didn’t care anymore about the end of such arduous journey. I was falling into despair and when I turned my back to go home, all I saw was darkness and I cried out to love in my anguish and pain: “love do not leave me, hold me by the hands, the road is not easy one and the journey is too tough.” And love took me by the hands and said to me: “courage my child, love fears nothing.”
She held me by the hands and the onward journey continued. The road was filled with thorns and spikes but love trampled them all. I got tired on the way, fell down and when I got up I could not see love again and I didn’t even have the tiniest strength o stand up. Then I heard a voice deep from within saying: “love will give you strength” and I stood up and started looking for love, yet I could not find her and the voice came again: “love will always find a way.”
I looked ahead and I saw love calling my name saying: “child, am with you, fear no more.” Once more I surged on and we kept moving forward. The journey seemed endless yet, but love kept me going and when I thought I couldn’t possibly go on any longer; love said: “look ahead our final destination is here.” I looked but I could not see anything out of the ordinary just the spikes, pits and thorns that had characterized our whole journey. Love said to me again: ‘love doesn’t see through the ordinary eyes, it sees through the eyes of faith and hope and for you to see, you must first believe.” I told love that I believed and that I would look through the eyes of faith and hope and then I remembered a say
ing I had read somewhere and it went like this: “Faith is believing the incredible, or its no virtue at all; Hope is hoping when it is hopeless or its no virtue at all; Charity is pardoning what is unpardonable or it is no virtue at all.”
She said to me: “look again, look through the eyes of faith and see it as love would see it.” I looked and I saw a bright light that almost blinded my eyes; I heard music so sweet and I saw the stars in their entire splendor, the streams gushed forth water and everywhere the signs of life were evident. It was really a sight to behold and I wish I could remain there forever. I felt a calm come over me. The same voice that had accompanied me all through the journey came again and said to me: “love will give you peace only if you believe” and I replied: “why won’t I believe when I have seen love in all majesty and glory.”
I thought that was the end of our journey and I would have been glad to stay there and enjoy the sights before me but love called out to me saying there was more to come and I wondered what else was this more and what could compare to all I had seen and witnessed so far. Love said: “be patient my child and learn from me.” I said: “ok, teach me; I am willing and ready to learn.” When I looked for my guide and companion on this journey, I could not find her but then I heard her voice speak to me from within and it said to me: “listen and hear what I have to say.” I continued searching for love to see if I could find her but to no avail and her voice came again: “put your hands on your chest; I am in there, I abide in you, I am always in you and would be there whenever you need me.”
I was overjoyed that now love would always be with me and I began to imagine all the wonderful things we would do and all the things she would teach me and in my happiness I exclaimed: “oh, love what a wonder you are!!!.” Love said to me: “you can go back now but remember everything I have taught you and everything you have seen, that love will not spare you from pain but in the midst of your pain, you will find a joy and peace like never before.”
I got up and started the journey home; it was much easier and faster because even though love didn’t hold my hands, love was where I could always find her, right inside my Heart.