It is my deepest desire to stir in all my world a sense of its own loveliness. I’ve learned that it is my particularly human ability that I am able to bestow love on all reality and remind everything I meet that it is lovely and loved. While I may be in the role of lover, I am in the same moment the messenger that all things are worthy of love. It is an unconditional love that simply recognizes the loveliness of all things.
First I have had to learn to recognize and accept my own loveliness. I am grateful for all those who have convinced me and helped me become aware of an inheritance that is all mine. My life has been filled with people who told me of my loveliness until I am now convinced that it is true and appropriate. I am so much less inclined to grasp for the recognition I so ardently sought. I do not falsely feel unworthy.
I am now more inclined to accept my innate loveliness, indulge in it, be aware of it in a relaxed manner. I smile at myself more, allow mistakes, expect only that I be me and take joy in that. I am more able to awaken a sense of their loveliness in my companions, and most people I meet. I can gaze at them with awareness and a smile that stirs a little of the feeling of what it means to be a lovely human.
I am able to walk through my garden or my woods and convince my plants that they are lovely. I will soon tell my garden flowers daily how lovely they are. I will touch them and lovingly feel the firmness of their stems, the softness of their leaves, the yielding fragility of their blooms. I will remind them daily how lovely they are just by being flowers.
I want to take the message and affirmation of loveliness to all my friends and companions. They are lovely, they are lovable. It is a gift I give by loving them, by giving them my full attention, my full presence. By immersing myself in their loveliness, I too am the beneficiary. I indulge in their loveliness and feel the joy.