Contrast What Does It Mean?

I was speaking with a friend this week, and in that conversation we spoke about the things that are coming up in our lives.  What does this mean, and why is it here?  You know those things that cause you to think and feel something; the things that cause you to have a difference of opinions from someone else, or the bonding moment when you find someone who feels the same about a subject as you do. 

As I sat listening to my friend this thought come to me, "Isn't this what we have been treating for in our lives?"  Have we not been asking for a space of clarity  on this subject matter?  And, with the "contrast" does it not give us a clearer understanding of what we want and where we are heading?  That thought connected to the thought:  How many times in my life has something showed up I perceive as a challenge, only to have it transform the way I look at something I have been working on in a new light?  A light that opens up the door in a new direction, and thus creating a new path.  

How many times have I asked for love in my life, only to find the area within myself  that I didn't love?  I love this quote "I am the love I'm looking for".  Yet for the longest time I would look at myself in the mirror and say things to myself that did not represent love in the least.  "Ah ha" in order to draw "Love" in I have to be a vibrational match to that which I am asking for!   I was in the words of the song "looking for love in all the wrong places, looking for love in too many faces."  The love I was looking for was looking at me in the mirror all along.  

How often have I chosen to look for someone or something to give me what I think is missing in my life, only to recognize that no one can give me anything that I don't feel I am worth. That contrast along the way helped me see myself for who I really am; that which I came here to be, LOVE.

That contrast helped me find the launching pad for Self Love, knowing that "that which I give out returns to me multiplied."  

With that in mind today I look at "contrast" with gratitude knowing it to be he beginning of the manifestation process I need to allow in that which I have asked for.

I love you 

Allen