How do we take love and ideas about love out of the clouds and anchor love's presence right here on earth? Here are a few things you may want to consider.

Love is who you are. How you see yourself, how you treat yourself, how you express yourself is a direct reflection of your true beliefs about love. When you can be gentle and compassionate with yourself, you will feel love. When you can be nonjudgmental about yourself, you will experience love. When you can see and celebrate your worth, value and your beauty as a divine expression of life, you will be love.

Love is what you have come into life to give. Treat everyone, regardless of who they are, what they do or how they do it, the same way you treat yourself. See the good about everyone and in everyone, even when they make mistakes you feel they should not make. Speak to people in a way that will open their hearts, allowing them to feel welcome and worthy. Give others the same benefit of the doubt that you give to yourself. Are these not the things you need to feel loved?

Love is cooperative, harmonizing, accepting, forgiving, essence of your soul. Love does not give up. Love does not demand what it does not have. Love doesn't force itself on others in order to feel better about itself. Love doesn't withhold itself. Love doesn't attack to avenge itself. When we learn to see ourselves as love and to be present with others in loving ways, love will be anchored in our consciousness and on the planet.

Until today, you may have been trying to figure out what love is and how to find it in your life. Just for today, be aware of and accept yourself as the expression and example of the love you are seeking.

Today I am devoted to knowing myself, expressing myself and experiencing myself as love!

Iyanla Vanzant

Until Today is an excellent book by Iyanla Vanzant and if you have not read it, I encourage you to do so.