Love Will Come To You

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I say love will come to you/ Hoping just because I spoke the words they’re true/ As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through/ Where there’s now one there will be two
From Indigo Girls, “Love Will Come to You.”

Love will come to you. Love will come to you. Love will come to you.

Look around. Love is coming to you in friends and family. Love is coming to you in the unfolding of the seasons. Love is coming to you in the morning and night. Love is coming to you in the dreams you hold. Love is coming to you in dancing to music. Love is coming to you in snuggling cats.

As it is, so it will be.

You can love into existence. You can love faith into existence. You can love hope into existence. You can love grace into existence. You can love peace into existence. You can love light into existence. You can love understanding into existence.

You have to believe in miracles and magic to know deep in your bones that love will come to you. Think about it. If you have witnessed birth and death, a sunrise and sunset, a peach ripening, a magnolia blooming, a waterfall cascading, a tide rolling, a rain falling, a broken bone healing, you understand that loves comes to you. If you have lost your breath during a moment of awe, if you have invented or built or created something, if you have changed your mind, said I am sorry, listened to or truly seen another, you understand loves comes to you.

When love comes to us, there is more. More of it all. More faith, hope, grace, light, understanding. Two.