People often talk about spiritual devotions as regarding a particular religion or creed. I feel religion has nothing to do with spirituality but everything to do with a nonessential thought process. True spirituality begins and ends in the heart where the only real 'law' is love. Yet, how many religions that profess love, are carriers of intolerance, apathy and downright hate. Oh, before I go on the opposite of extreme love is not extreme hate; it is apathy. To those apathetic souls who hide behind a barrier of their religious gods, laws, traditions, etc. well, I feel sad for you. You know not love and what it truly means.

Admittedly, I find myself on a journey that has divorced me from many of the preconceived notions I had as a child about faith. The journey is arduous. Hopefully it is not so long that I begin to despair of ever reaching a place where I can truly say I am living in love.

At the moment I am not quite capable of standing in such a pristine place of love... I still get angry when I am disappointed in someone. I still swear and grumble when frustrated. I still miss the mark of complete and total immersion in loving myself and loving others the way love is truly meant to be.

Hopefully, I will reach it one fine today.

Hopefully I can set a beacon out for those on the same journey that states 'you are not alone'.

Full of hoping I begin...