Eternal love

P - Good morning Lord.

L - Good morning Son.

P - What would you like to tell me this morning?

L - I am in the mood to hear what you have to say to me.

P - Ok, Mr. Contrary. I enjoy You so much. Your love is the best thing I have ever experienced. It is the most refreshing drink I have ever had, and it is interesting how happy I am now, compared to where I was not too long ago. I remember laying in my bed several nights crying in agony, feeling as if you were such a far off idea, and now, You are here, you are now. I talk to you, I listen to You, you teach me things I never imagined and I am peaceful.

L - Is that it?

P - What do you mean is that it? I think that is a lot, considering where I have been. Isn’t it all about enjoying You anyway?

L - Yes, that’s what it is about, and My enjoyment of you. Consider your dog, and stay with me, here, because I don’t think of you like a dog. But why do you have a pet?

P - Because pets are funny, they can be good company, they can be good companions, things like that.

L - So are people. Why an animal?

P - I am not sure, really. Probably because they can’t talk back.

L - Ha! Well, I created you for the same reasons you gave, but I enjoy talking to you. Do you want to have children?

P - Of course. You know I do, I have always loved kids, and always wanted them.

L - Children are different though, aren’t they?

P - Yes, they are. I think kids have more to do with passing on a legacy, loving them and seeing them become unique expressions of yourself and seeing their identities take on their own uniqueness and that identity becoming a part of who you are as a parent.

L - Ah, that’s it right there. And you don’t even have children yet. Pets are mere companions. You contribute to the world with your children and they contribute to your world, your life is in them, and they in yours. That is the real deal.

P - Yes, I see the difference. But why?

L - Patrick, if love is creative, it must always be fresh and new. How else could this happen without engendering new expressions of itself? Children are that expression. That is why it is important that children grow well and into the image of the love that their parents have for one another and for their children, so that they can produce likewise. Go read Genesis about how I created all things again...I will wait for you.

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P - What is all the “after its kind” business?

L - I am just reiterating to you the nature of creative love. I created things to reproduce and fill the earth, fill the waters. They reproduced things like themselves, in their own nature, they did not stray from their nature. Likewise, I made you in my image, in my nature. What you reproduce will be like me also, because that is the way I create and express my love, time upon time again, until I fill the earth.

P - Why are you telling me this? I understand this.

L - How does this apply to what you do with your time? Listen, time is not the important question, because I don’t have a deadline. But what about you and your expression? What story are you writing with your life and what is the expression that you are reproducing? That is the important question.

P - Well, I think I am doing what you are talking about. But it isn’t always easy.

L - Easy? That isn’t the question either. Why is this important?

P - I think, because it is not just my own expression, but Yours, or at least it should be.

L - Of course, but why is that important?

P - I would have to say, although I may be wrong, that because of the joy it brings to you, to me and to anyone who has an encounter with my life’s expression.

L - That is good. That is true. That is what life is about. Abounding joy, but eternally exponential love is the road to that. You have successfully described paradise.

P - That is cool. Now, how does that apply to me today. I mean, not to belittle what you have just shown me, but why are you showing me this?

L - Patrick, what you do with your writing is not just for you to make money, it isn’t just something for you to do. It is a brick in the pavement of the road to paradise. No brick is enough by itself, but all are essential. What you do with your time is not pointless, nor is it useless. It is essential for you, for Me, for anyone who reads your words. Do you think that your life is just for you and Me? No, son. Your work is important, and I am not just building you up to encourage you to keep going. I am giving you a key insight into your life. You are a builder, an architect, to express the love I AM to the world with your words, your life and your children’s children’s lives. This is what I came to do on the earth.

P - This all seems a little weighty to absorb right now, Lord. I feel like I understand it with my head, but I don’t feel it bursting in my heart yet.

L - Patrick, because you are still doubting that this applies to your writing. Whether or not you become a well known author, you will pave the way for many to come behind you, until the earth is filled with My glory. I need for you to do this, I have chosen you to do this, it is who you are, because it is who I AM. Do not get frustrated or put pressure on yourself to do something that is not after your kind. If you do, you will fail, because it is not how I have made you. You cannot give away what you do not have, and you can not create what is not inside you.

Patrick, you are doing well. Take these words as encouragement and confirmation of what you know. That you are my son, my pride and glory. Live like it, and stop doubting your creativity.

P - OK, Lord.