All these things Love does to you,
Exposing secrets of your heart
So you may see in all you do
That sacred special part.

For those who are following the previous blogs (Interpretation of the poetic parable on Love stanza's I-VI) it will be easy to understand that the visitor is talking about Love as in the "entity" rather than Love as a romantic notion.

For someone not following "the story within the story" (the parable) it is easy to see how this line would be interpreted as meaning; "falling in romantic love has highs and lows, pleasure and pain, and all those emotional tides we go through while in or out of Love, which teaches us who we are."

That notion is not necessarily false.  We do learn who we are from our experiences, whether they are good or bad.  We learn empathy, we learn compassion, we learn through both our mistakes and the mistakes of others.  But if it is truly Love; it is never a mistake...at least if talking about Love from the perspective of the visitor.

Love Stanza VII - Line I : All these things Love does to you,

From the perspective of the visitor; he is talking about Love (the entity) acting on us.  From the pleasure, to the pain, to the sacrifice to the Grace.  This is not "physical" Love.  This is something that is done to us and through us our our journey of life.  

Love Stanza VII - Line II: Exposing secrets of your heart

It can be hard to look inwards, especially when hurting, and see the role our action, inaction, acceptance or rejection had in situations we may suffer.  It is easier to look outwards, and recognize the things that we didn't like, felt unfair, or when we felt betrayed.  It is easier to blame others.  

But Love, the entity (not the emotion) has the power to expose our true feelings.  In complete honesty and solitude.  It is not a judgement bestowed upon us, but the clarity of coming to our own self-judgement and acknowledging our role.  

It is rare that anyone is every completely innocent.  While the actions of someone else may seem more overt - there is usually some role each of us play in any situation where we may feel as though we have been hurt.  Sometimes its as simple as not being honest with ourselves and accepting things we should not have accepted in hopes for something else.  Sometimes it may be not paying enough attention to the other person or situation but rather being so wrapped up in ourselves that we lose track of both the other person(s) and the situation.  Sometimes it's as easy as not recognizing the hurt we may have caused someone else in the defense of ourselves.  

It's hard to be that honest, to see the role we each play in the losses and hurts where we feel like the victim.  But Love can help us see clearly.  

And sometimes it will actually take the guilt away, especially in situations where someone is innocent.  These are situations where someone else has power or control over someone else.  That power or control can be due to age, to financial, to position.  For example; it is rare that a child can be held to blame in any hurt where adults are involved.  The adult typically has the full trifecta of power (age, financial and position).  In situations where children are exploited the entity of Love can help them see they are in fact fully innocent. 

The reality is the "exposing secrets" according to the visitor will occur.  There is no escape.  This is made clear in numerous parables of the visitor, such as the one on Laws:

And following a law which is inherently wrong
Does little to lessen your crime.
And no matter how good and no matter how strong
We all must account in due time.

This concept is made even clearer by the visitor on the parable regarding Time; and actually may be seen or interpreted as a warning, or an accounting to the secrets within your heart,  Although in the concept of "time" the visitor is talking about how death is not bound by the physical realities of time (physics or speed, mass, velocity, gravity etc), the idea of an accounting and clarity at the end of life (in the concept of eternity) is cohesive to the message of understanding and accounting for the "secrets of our hearts" will occur:

When yesterday and tomorrow converge on today
When everything is, and always has been
Revealed at once, all you do - all you say
When all that has been and will be - is seen.

Love Stanza VII - Line III: So you may see in all you do

The idea that Love enables you to see in all you do, is the idea of a deeper honesty within yourself that cannot be hidden.  It is not the idea of being judged externally - where you will be able to account by means of any defense.  It is the idea that in reality, you really can't lie to yourself.  You can lie to others, and they may not know.  But the reality you know when you are lying to yourself, therefore, you cannot in reality "lie to yourself".  Love makes this very clear.  Love has the ability to make you self-accountable - in ALL you do (or don't do).

Love Stanza VII - Line IV: That sacred special part.

That sacred special part is that part that lives beyond the physical mundane body that will be left here on earth.  The reality is that Love allows you to see that part of yourself that is beyond the face you see in the mirror.  It is that part of you that grows within yourself.  Basically, it allows you to see and recognize your spirit in advance.  Love lifts the veil.  

This is the reality of the visitors message.  You know and can see behind the veil through the power of Love.  You don't have to wait until the crow comes calling for you.  

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I hope the message of Love as relayed by the visitor is becoming clear.  It is a personal journey of Love that we experience with others, but at the same time, it is to each and everyone of us our own unique journey.   

If you are enjoying the concept of the poetic parables within the prose of the visitor I invite you to check out the full volume of The Visitor; Book I of the Corvus Chronicles now available on this website (see Bookstore) or on Amazon, Indigo, Kindle, Kobo or by ordering at a bookstore near you.  

Until next time, I present to you the first half of the parable on Love, (Stanza's 1-VII inclusive).

Journey in Love; Michael Paul

When Love beckons, do not sleep
And let none stand in defiance of;
Though cost be high and loss be steep
Leave doubt behind and yield to Love.

As sure as Love will lift you high
To heights beyond your reach
To fully grasp; you must partly die
Self-interest must be breached.

And Love will drop you like a bird
Scorched flying near the sun
Do not the dizzy heights disturb
Love’s quest to become one.

For your body; it will bless
And guide you through all weather
While softly naked it will caress
Your body like a feather.

Then it will bind and chain and flog
Till you can take no more
And leave you stumbling in the fog
Alone - lost in amour.

Love will heal wounds of desire,
Then bleed you dry as stone
Love throws you into sacred fires
Where you will burn alone.

All these things Love does to you,
Exposing secrets of your heart
So you may see in all you do
That sacred special part.