Open to receive were words I was contemplating after a conversation with a dear friend. I was taken aback when she told me that I needed to be open to receive… that I was too busy giving and never stopped to allow others to give.

Now, you can imagine how struck I was to hear these words reverberate within me. Me? Not open to receive? How could anyone have that image of me? I asked her to remind me of an incident when I was not open to receive? She didn’t point out any particular one so you can see … put in a position like that, it’s hard to learn from the lesson.

In this introspection I will admit that I do not tend to ask for anything. Yet… I do. … and here lies an area I tread with trepidation.

Of my friends… I ask for their company… I am so fulfilled with their company that their conversations and everything they offer are bonus … I’m humbled.

Of my co-workers or associates I ask for their “best”. I ask for their commitment, time and to honor ‘their word’.

Of my family… I ask … that they allow me to LOVE them, anything they give me beyond that… again I am humbled that I can share in their life.

Feeling Loved and that someone Cares for me, my ideas, projects and dreams… becomes alive when the people that I draw into my world enjoin me in my quest… and this truly makes my life even more magical than I could have ever imagined it.

To Love people and then to have them Love me back and they share in my life and I in theirs is truly (for me) being Alive.

Perhaps the only thing I am guilty of quietly asking is: TO BE LOVED.

Daisy Says: Open to receive LOVE.

In HIS masterful design He has placed angels to watch over us. A world filled with loving angels to guide us on our path when we stumble. Angels disguised as that caring hand from a stranger when we can’t seem to go any more. A gentle smile that brightens our day, a moment of clarity when all seems dark and confused.

Our angels always vigilant in their care for us. To awaken to their presence is to feel loved and safe; feeling the warmth of their embrace and their song of joy in our hearts.

Daisy Says: Unto your day sojourn knowing that you are in the presence of angels.

Drink from the cup of love and savor its sweet delight. Consumed by loves embrace you can’t help but run to drink from its over flowing cup over and over again.

With unquenchable thirst you lay at loves door yearning to drink from Loves cup once more only to discover the anguish and desire for more.

In a moment of sobriety you realize that Love has touched you and know that without it you can not live… to drink love once more is all you think of; to gaze with the eyes of love, to kiss with the lips of love, to touch with the touch of love to live with Love is what you live for. Intoxicated by Love you lose yourself deeper and deeper inhaling its magic spell you give in to the addiction.

Helpless yet empowered you seek to dance with Love once more because deep within you know there is no going back for to have loved is to have lived.

Daisy Says: Cheers to a second cup of Love.

What is yet most amusing is that this game is being played every day and we are playing it whether we are aware of it or not. In this game we also (in most cases subconsciously) choose our partner partially based upon their abilities and skill at playing the games we know how to play.

“Flirting” can be placed in this category as one of the mind games we play, for the most part it is fun and satisfying and does no harm.

I don’t claim to be an expert of mind games and would not like to play any game where someone could get hurt, yet I do believe that one should be aware of the games that people do play because one could so easily get caught in the middle of a full blown game. Keep your eyes on the end zone and go for a touch down!

If you are going to play… try and learn the rules, tread with caution, give your opponent a few passes and always go for the home run!

Daisy Says: In the name of Peace and Love, Yes is the surrender when you let go.

Love has so many variations, so many levels and all the while it remains true to itself; it does not change… it simply IS.

I was reading an article by anthropologist Helen Fisher which I found very interesting on the topic of Love and its various forms. In this article she discusses the brain in love where she goes on to expand on the areas of Lust, Romantic Love and Attachment. While she said that having all three in one relationship is not uncommon, equally not uncommon that while “Attached” with one mate, one could move in and out of being in “Romantic Love” with another person and yet “Lust” another.

What I found most fascinating was her statement that Romantic Love is a drive; a drive more powerful than the sex drive.

Romantic Love… has no boundaries. It’s the LOVE that stirs your soul knowing that ONE special person reciprocates your existence.

Many would agree that people Live for Love, Die for Love, write poetry on Love and because of Love, paint paintings inspired by Love, sing songs of Love and more.

Yet, what is that cue that allows us to know we are In Love. I mean, one minute you’re in a room with strangers and within seconds it can happen. A burst of intense attraction and the stranger now takes on a special meaning. The meaning we give them about how we feel about them.

Our being now becomes totally focused on that one person.

Now the question remains…. is it the person that drives us or is it Love that drives us to that one special person?

How grand is it to know that WE ARE wired to find LOVE?

What I would suggest to anyone searching for LOVE, keep looking because LOVE will hit you hard and no matter how long the wait ROMANTIC LOVE is worth waiting for. (and the search for it could be a wonderful discovery of self)

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Daisy Says: LOVE: Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship united through eternity in Love.