The Power of Love
After some months of absence from my writing, blogging, and posting on Facebook, I felt I needed a recharge in my thinking. Those who know and have followed me in the past are aware of my belief in the universe and my fondness of reading The Secret. Well, during this extended break, a surprising thing happened to me.
I found I was becoming closer to my nephew and his family here in Paphos, especially his beautiful children, so much so that during the long school summer break here in Cyprus, I spent an enormous amount of time with them. Now I use the word surprising because although Ntina and I love them, I realized I wanted to be with them and they with me;they generate within me; Life, Love, and Laughter, and we have become something else; we have become best friends; isn’t that wonderful, with an age gap of over Sixty Years we are best friends, I still pinch myself with excitement when I think about it, and them, it has been an incredible journey this summer, and continues to be so.
Yes, they have given me a new zest for life; I was flagging a little before, I felt; alright, OK, not bad, all of which are negative feelings, and knew I had to turn this around. I realized why I felt this way but was annoyed with myself for allowing it to happen. Whatever we believe in, whatever we practice, life throws all of us situations and challenges to deal with; it is, of course how you deal with those challenges that count. And these two fabulous kids, without knowing, have brought me back.
In the early days of my new found interest as a writer, I was enthusiastic; I wrote and published my first book, wrote blogs, and started my second book with a third on the way as well. Indeed life was great, and all seemed well, then sadly in November last year on our return from a wonderful few days in Prague, my wife Ntina, who is at my side and supports me in all I do, suddenly became unwell.
This changed me in many ways, because of my natural concern for her well being.
I lost the motivation and enthusiasm to write anything. After a while Ntina got better but was advised an operation was needed to put her back to complete good health; this took place in March of this year, and she is now back to good health I am grateful to say, but during the wait, my concerns grew, and my enthusiasm waned.
Recently I awoke very early one morning after a somewhat restless night, and as I sat down with a cup of tea and thumbed through my bookshelf, my hand fell upon The Power by Rhonda Byrne. This book is an extension of The Secret and is written in Rhonda’s natural relaxing style.
I read that morning for over two hours, after which I felt a warm feeling inside, a feeling of excitement, a feeling of anticipation. I read the passage that relates to Love; Everything you want to be, do, or have comes from Love, the positive force of Love can create anything good, increase good feelings, and change the negativity in your life, Love is inside all of us, its how we use it that counts, fill yourself with Love, it is a marvelous feeling,. After reading that I understood; The kids had brought that out in me; their fun, adventure, and carefree attitude had brought me back and filled the summer days with so much love I literally shone.
They had made me realize that one word; Love can free us of all the weight and pain in life.
Love, this powerful energy was, I now realized, missing from my day; Then each day I was with the kids I was experiencing something good in my life, I had Loves positive force beside me, which was why it felt so invigorating. I have them with me as much as I can, they bring Ntina and me so much joy and fun, their faces when we turn up, the smiling eyes and the hugs of natural love fill me with so much energy.
Now I am getting back to where I was before, putting Love and Gratitude into my day, and after a long summer I feel invigorated and raring to go, and so the negative has been replaced with positive; Irritable moods , and there were some, have been replaced with Love and Gratitude for what I have around me and what I have actually already achieved.
The law of attraction is the law of love, so always love because when you love you use the greatest power in the universe.
I don’t mind admitting my slide back because the universe works in many ways; my time out was obviously needed; it has given me freshness, strength, focus, and determination, and I am happy because; I feel Good! Fantastic! And Excited! About the days ahead. All these feelings bring Success.
Thank you for reading this blog.
I wish you what I have…People around you…who care.
John Warner Author/ Creator of The Tales of Padistan Bear.
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