To love is to choose to love. The infatuation of early romance is lust. The adoration of a newborn is wonder. For both loves--and all loves--to endure, deepen, and exalt, we vigorously cultivate opening our heart, train our mind to cooperate, and voluntarily offer acts of love. Even the bond of a blood relationship does not guarantee our love, much less unconditional love. However, family relationships offer the opportunity to learn deepest love lessons. We are called daily to love when the mood least suits us, when mind-matter, like judgment and justification, jam the heart’s plumbing. Authentic loving isn’t a habit sure to form if … [Read more...]