In the beginning...

I have entitled this blog, "Always Love."  In part, it comes from the book I've been reading, "Transformation of the Heart," about Sufism.  The Sufis have an extraordinary language of love that is mystical, spiritual, and universal.  Most Westerners are familiar with the Sufi mystic Rumi, and his ecstatic poetry to the Beloved.  His work is full of innuendo which seemingly is about lovers, but is actually about his relationship to God.

I have found that when I am 'in the flow,' in an accepting frame of mind where I allow the events of daily living to carry me along instead of resisting every little thing, that synchronicities start to happen.  At first they appear random, but eventually, depending on how conscious I am that day, I see a pattern appear -- a pattern that shows me that this river I've been swept along in, these random events, are not so random at all. 

In a fit of whimsy today, I was using Google to find latin translations of English.  At work we were trying to come up with goofy mottos to describe our constituents, when I stumbled across a phase that leapt off the page at me.  It describes what I have been writing and thinking about for years.

Here is the phrase:
"Lux et umbra vicissm, sed semper amor."  Translation:  "Light and shadow by turns, but always love.

This bit of randomness was pointing me in a direction, and this blog is a rest area along the way.
This is my life as it has always been, and will ever be.