I Try to be a Conduit for Love, but Here are Some Things that Clog Me Up

If my life's goal is to be a Conduit of Love, then it's worth being mindful of the ways in which that conduit (ie, Me) can get all clogged up.

WHAT I TRY AND DO/BE IN MY MINISTRY

The other day I reflected a bit on a recent East Coast Tour I embarked on, stopping at 8 different events and churches over the course of 7 days, spread out across 3 states. Being with all those people, hearing their stories and offering waves of hope and love and encouragement had a way of crystallizing for me what my Life’s Purpose is.

I believe I’m here to be a Conduit of Love.

To dispense, distribute, and dole out Love.

(I almost wrote “the love of God” at the end of that last sentence, but stopped because I don’t want to try and draw a distinctions between where Love comes from. Whether it’s the love of God, or the love that comes from me, or the love released from inside a person’s own heart, in one sense it’s all the same. Love is love, it only has one Source, and that source is Love—or, as it were, God.)

To be a Conduit of Love, then, is my way of naming that I try and show up in spaces and act as a distribution vessel for love. My hope is that people leave our time together, leave an interaction with me, feeling a deeper experience of Love than when they came.

Maybe it is that they feel more loved by God, yes and Amen.

Maybe it’s that they feel seen and loved by me, yes and Amen.

Maybe it’s that they’ve released a little more shame, or let go of some old stories that have held them back from loving themselves. Yes and Amen.

Or maybe, as a result of my time there, a person finds a new community, a new church, a new chosen-family where they can begin to experience love in new and deeper ways.

But here’s the thing…

Conduits (be it for energy, water-flow, electricity, etc) can get clogged, broken, or otherwise messed up in ways that restrict or alter the flow of what it’s supposed to be channeling.

I am no different.

I, too, as a Conduit for Love, can (and do!) get clogged up.

Let me explain…