On occasion, I’ve been known to be called the “spiritual reporter”.  For a few years I would craft a question for the year and ask this question of most people I met during the year, just to see what was important to people.  One year I asked “What do you think is the most important thing a human being could have, receive or experience?”  Every single person answered, in one way or another, with the same answer.  Love.  

I thought about this quite a bit over the years.  There was something profound about it but I couldn’t immediately put my finger on it.  As a person with a life long dedication to being a peace builder, within and without, one of the forms that this has taken place in my outer life is as a mediator.  One of the things you are taught in conflict resolution is to look for and identify common ground that may aid the conflicted parties toward a resolution, or agreements, that will improve their future.  Eventually, I became rather excited to realize that if most people in the world agree that Love is one of the most important things in Life, then we human beings have pretty spectacular common ground to assist us in co creating some semblance of sustainable Peace on Earth.  Just think about that!  If that’s not solid ground to build motivation and inspire hope, nothing is!  

Then I started wondering, “If we all pretty much agree that Love is SO important, then why do so many of us lament that we don’t have enough of it in our lives?”  We talk about it, sing about it, fight about it, cry about it, write poetry and stories about it, obsess over it, be confused and depressed over it, teach about it, celebrate it, become enlightened with it …..  but most people say they do not have enough of it in their lives.  What’s the problem? 

After meditating on this for some time, in the inner background of my life where I do my best thinking (or Some One does), I realized that the problem is not that Love is illusive, or that it has a hiding place and shows up randomly, or only for a good reason, or that we are all on some hero’s quest to eventually discover the secret answer to the secret Koan of what and where Love is.  No.  Love is always here.  Every moment.  Every day.  So why don’t we feel it every moment, every day?   Stay tuned for the answer to this in my next Bunny Blog entry.  I know, a cliff hanger.  But it’s Saturday night and Fox is waiting.  And you know what THAT means!!!!