1Looking For Love and Finding the Divine

 

I looked for love in people, in approval, in belonging, in being chosen.

 

I believed love was something I had to find — something that lived outside of me, in someone else’s hands.

 

What I did not know then was that every search was leading me inward.

 

I did not set out to find the Divine. I only wanted to feel loved. But life has a way of redirecting us. The heartbreaks, the disappointments, the moments when love seemed just out of reach — they were not punishments.

They were invitations.

 

An invitation to discover that what I was looking for had always been quietly waiting within me.

 

I searched in faces,

in arms that held me,

in words that chose me.

And still something whispered—

not there… not there…

Until one quiet moment,

when nothing was left to reach for,

I turned inward—

and found

what had never left.

 In stillness found,  a truth so pure,

 The Divine's gentle Love, forever sure.