Krystal Klere's Christmas Address 2007

Hi all,

Well this is my second Christmas address and what a year it’s been. I have published “Songs from the Jangled Heart” and “Petals from the Lotus Heart” this year. The last one was published to raise funds for a children’s charity and sales have been doing very well.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your best wishes and support during this year. I have been asked to do more radio shows as well as keeping my blog and I will try to aim to do one a month. Remember that these can be emailed to you for free and that they are broadcast on media other than just the Krystal Klere Kommunications channel. If you would like to have details of the other media outlets please send an email to KrystalKlere@hotmail.com c/o Neil.

Now for the Christmas address which will also be broadcast on Christmas Day (UK time) on the Krystal Klere Kommunications channel at Gabcast.

What is Love?

At Christmas we think about Love. This is because Christmas is a Christian festival and Christians believe that Jesus Christ was born at Christmas and gave His Life for the saving of the world. They believe that this was one of the greatest acts of Love. Even if we are not Christians we are reminded of the birth of a baby and for most people a baby is considered the fruit of Love.

But I also hear many people ask in modern times what is love exactly? In our modern age when relationships seem dispensable and we see abusive people on TV chat shows declaring that, whatever their behaviour, they “love” the people they are hurting this is not a surprising question.

I am going to attempt to give my answer and you must decide for yourself whether it speaks to you or not. Or whether some parts speak to you and others do not. In the end it is your responsibility to decide what you believe.

First I would say that Love is not a feeling; love may be but Love is not. What is the difference I hear you ask? Well what I want to concentrate on here is Love not love: love is what most people would call personal love. It is how we act, feel and do when our ego’s are involved and there is nothing wrong with that. However, with all personal love we have an investment and it involves our self. However there is nothing wrong with that because we have a self, and an ego to nurture while we are on the physical plane. But what I am concerned with here is Love.

Love is not a feeling and it is not an action. Love in this form is our Intention. That is it is the Will of our Soul. However it is not Intention only; for it to be Love it must be acted upon to the best of our ability.

I will give a very concrete idea of what I mean by Love here and how it can be acted out in the world.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a very well known Fellowship where alcoholics meet together to try and combat alcoholism. One of the steps of their Twelve Step Programme says this about making amends to people hurt by the alcoholics previous actions:-

(9) Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

In my opinion carrying out the first part of the step without the second part could have been loving in the personal sense of the word because it has good intention behind it. It is about someone wanting to make amends.

However there is a lack of Wisdom in it if taken alone because it would not have considered, however well intentioned, the effect the amends would have had on the person receiving them The first part of the step taken in conjunction with the second part however shows Love because the ultimate determinant of behaviour is how other people will be affected. This means that even if carrying out the first part would make the offender feel less guilty it cannot be done if it will cause further injury to those already hurt.

Therefore the Intention behind step (9) of the AA twelve steps is to do the Most Good and the Least Harm. I think this is a good guide as to whether one is showing Love or not.

There may be many times when what we want to do because we love someone may conflict with what we know we should really do if we really Love them. For example, if a beloved child or pet wants more food to eat after they have already had a good meal, (out of greed I mean), many times we want to give it to them because we want to indulge them. In other words we want to please them because we love them. But we know in our hearts that if we really Love them we shouldn't’t do so because we are the one in charge of their long term health and know that such actions would be detrimental to it. This is where our Intention, (Love), may conflict with our completely human feelings, (love). And it is where Love, (if carried out), creates an Action. (In this case that of denying our child or pet more food).

Notice I wrote Love produces an Action not an action. This is because I believe that although Love is Intention, if it is True Intention it must be acted upon in the world. If it isn’t, it is merely intention. And we all know how insipid intention is.

How many times have you heard someone say that they “intended” to do something and never do? You know that it is not worth the breath they use to say the word and it has absolutely nothing to do with Intention which is Spiritual and produces Love.

Therefore I would conclude by saying that Love is Intention that Manifests as Action is the world.

Sometimes the Action such Intention produces may not be recognised by others as Love and may, because of other factors, cause effects unforeseen. However as long as the Action was motivated by the Intention of Love it is Love.

Your Soul will know it and so will God.

May I wish you the Very Best Wishes of the Festive Season whatever your beliefs and always, always, Love. And remember I Love you all.

Until next time.

As always,

Blessed be,

KK