Let Love In

The biggest challenge we face every day is to let love in. Letting love in means we have to make room.  Letting love in means we have to dole out grace.  Letting love in requires margin.  And it doesn’t get easier with time.  There is just so much love waiting to make its way into our hearts; not necessarily being given to us by others but just the energy of it dancing between our souls and begging for the chance to transform one of us.

This week I’m returning from a client trip to Cabo San Lucas where we stayed at the luxury Capella Pedrgal.  Exquisite resort with fabulous amenities and one of the best spas in the world.  I didn’t go expecting to let love in.  I went to work. I went to coordinate logistics.   I went to manage itineraries.  I went to keep lists straight and manage to budgets and to create an environment for others to unwind.

But somewhere overlooking the Pacific, in between cooking steak and mushroom quesadillas and toasting the trip with a shot of Don Julio, I let love in.  These aren’t my clients I thought. Each one is a special gift to me, a chance to let love in if only I would.   And then suddenly, they weren’t a name on my list but a wife with an amazing history and mother with a heartfelt devotion to her babes and a husband who announced he’s a father-to-be and a couple embarking on a new chapter which will demand several extra helpings of grace.

They are true and they are real and they are alive and they are wounded and they are beautiful. They are funny and brilliant and ambitious and bold.  And they have captured my heart and given me the chance to let love in.  I feel like my heart is bursting open with my love for them.

I can’t fully explain the mystery of how our exchanges, six years worth of exchanges, suddenly blossomed in front of me.  It was like watching a time-laps video of a peony blooming; knowing it had happened slowly but seeing the beauty of its growth all within a few seconds.

I just know there is some love out there, dancing in the universe, gently trying to get your attention.  Maybe it's between you and someone in your office, a parent in your child’s class, an elderly woman on your street, perhaps even a sibling of yours.  You can feel the throbbing energy of love bouncing around you.  You know it will require something of you to let love in.  And it will feel like you are taking a great risk.  That is all true.  No one promises happy endings.  But go ahead, and let love in.