Since Valentine’s Day will be here in less than a week, I thought it’d be a good idea to talk about love in this newsletter.

Many years ago, Joseph defined love this way:

“The choice to see divinity in all beings.”

At time that didn’t make much sense to me. In fact, it made almost no sense. But over years I’ve come to see wisdom and power in that definition.

The very word, “love,” often conjures up so many confusing and conflicting images and feelings in our human minds. Especially in seemingly chaotic and trying times our planet is experiencing today.

So I asked Joseph to revisit that earlier definition of love from so long ago.

Chief Joseph

We have often used term “All That Is” to mean what many of you call God -- Goddess -- Great Spirit -- etc. We prefer term “All That Is” because it really says it all.

Whatever word or image you have of that divine creative energy, it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that energy created every being, entire universe, and every minute particle of that universe.

And that divine creative energy is part of -- is essence of -- everything that exists, has ever existed, or will ever exist. In other words, all that is.

God is all that is. It’s that simple.

At first he came across as a bit too much 'in-your-face' for my liking but, as he was challenging some of my long held beliefs, I came to realise that I was in a state of denial.

I will always be grateful to him because, by forcing me to face up to reality, I made some major breakthroughs by changing my thinking about certain issues.