Opportunity knocks

Every day, opportunity knocks.

It isn't always the opportunity we're looking for.

But each day presents us the opportunity to come into God's presence, to spend time just being loved by the One who loves us perfectly.

Unless we receive it, what we have to offer others is paltry, and far less than they deserve.

Until we receive it, we mistake all kinds of other experiences for love. In fact, much of what we think of as love, what we mistake for love when we haven't experienced real love, is often just self-indulgence of one form or another.

It may be codependency, power struggle, co-existence.

But when we spend time in the presence of Love, our perspective shifts. It doesn't happen all at once, of course, but we gradually become more attuned to the love that awaits our full participation.