Getting back to doing laundry and making lunches after the spectacular weekend love fest I had has been, uhm, surreal. One of my best friends got married, after being with his partner for 14 years. It was the first same sex wedding I have ever attended, and the first wedding I have attended, period, in a really long time. It was good to get a dose of wedding. It got me thinking. A lot. In some cases this is not good, but in this case it was. Because It got me thinking about life, and love, and purpose, and the way we treat people, and live with people, and well, all the big juicy questions that we seem to save for, I don’t know, some sort of bigger deal days that are worthy of them.
I am thinking we need to ask the big questions every day. We need to live them. We need to ask them, a lot, to our friends and loved ones, and family. We need to talk about love, and how that shows up in our lives. We need to talk about how it shows up, how to keep it showing up, and how we can help each other live a life doused in it.
Well, in the case of my dear friends, who tied the knot in front of a stupendous crowd of love loving beings this past weekend, we did that. And well, it was a wedding, so of course it was about love. But this one was about courage, and love. It was about healing, and love. It was about about inspiration, and love. Every being in the room held the space for that. That made it more than just a wedding. It made it a celebration of love, and hope for the world. I know that sounds big, but really, it was. Every small moment of warrior love that we are brave enough to live out sends its ripples. So keep making waves people.
I wrote a poem for Phil and Jeff, and read it at the wedding to help them celebrate with a few words, and I promised a few people I would share it. So it is here for you to read. Before you read it, close your eyes, take a huge relaxing breath, center yourself deep in your heart, and imagine a room full of people all doing that with you. That is how reading “A Divine Plan” felt to me, like a moment bathed in fully present love.
A Divine Plan
by Laura Probert
The moment we met
the universe would play
knowing the secret
that we would stand here today.
The plan ignited
being born in a glance
a chance of hope
that beamed across
the teller window.
We hardly knew
what love was then
trusting our hearts
only just beginning
to tend to ourselves.
We hung on to love
from a feeling inside
of wishes, dreams,
hopes and desires
all waiting for our promise.
Standing here now
held well by something
more than ourselves
shining inside to out
in joyful awe of that plan.
We fill ourselves up
with a bigger kind of love
feeling it to our bones
letting it fuel
our ready souls.
Ready for love
new dreams and desires
our promise grown strong
in these years
with each other.
Our glance now shows
deeper meaning that unfolds
in our moments of celebration
with these souls
together in big love.
Left with no doubt
or need to understand
love speaks
and we listen
that’s one divinely guided plan.
