Open Places

It can be quite surprising and amazing

  how the world can lay things at your feet.

  Love,

 and I don't mean sexual or romantic,

 just lovingness,

 can be right in front of you

 yet you could walk by it

 turn away from it

  or step over it

 if you are not paying attention.

 If you are not aware

 If it doesn't look like something familiar to you that you would recognize.

  Because sometimes it isn't made up of what you would recognize.

  Sometimes it isn't anything familiar at all.

  And sometimes you have no idea from where it has come.

  The thing is

 if you are not open,

 you could miss out on something really great

 no matter how close

 you are

to it.

Being present

 and looking with our heart open

 can lead us into places that we never knew we belonged in.

  Places that we never knew could feel like home.

  Places that we never knew were in need

 of exactly

 who

 we are.