Why Not Believe in Love

The average human heart weighs in at well under one pound, no bigger than your fist - it’s a baby, an infant, this helpless thing, as precious as any new born infant. The average beat that the heart maintains from first breath to last is the metronome of the universe not only pumping life’s blood through a hundred thousand miles of arteries, veins and capillaries, but pumping life through all of the vast universe itself – a miraculous and unfathomable thing, the heart. If you listen carefully, quietly, the heart does speak to you and with the exact same metronomic certainty with which it pumps life giving blood throughout the entire universe that is You.

“Everything will not be alright,” says my own dear heart when I do listen, “everything already IS alright. Everything has always been alright,” my heart insists, over and over and over again, “everything will always be alright – if you believe it,” the heart dares to assert. Such wisdom from an infant! “You get to choose what you believe," the heart suggests and I imagine it is smiling a little mischievously, beat after beat after beat, “so why not believe in love”.