Loving Inanimate Objects

6/8/2021

Back in high school, a history teacher overheard me saying that I loved something inanimate. A book? A teddy bear? A photo? I don’t remember what it was. This man told me that love was only for living things. He said it wasn’t possible to love an inanimate object.

I think he’s incorrect. I thought so then, and I still think so now.

Love comes from us. It wells up in us. It encompasses an appreciation for the object of our affection. We can love a painting, a musical interlude, and everything else.

We can also love people, animals, and plants – all living things. Sometimes the feeling is reciprocal. Sometimes it is part of our admiration for the beauty of an item.

Limiting the definition of “love,” limits our total joy in all the world has to offer.

Expanding our understanding of “love” can light up our world.

4 Comments

Jane

6/10/2021 02:22:14 pm

If a person dies and in the Afterlife merges with their soul and discovers all their other lives, so they are now a we rather than an I, how can a channel or medium talk to that person as they are now their soul not the person who died? Can they be a soul and also one individual out of all their lives?

Gail Kushner

6/11/2021 01:21:45 pm

I like to think of it like a hand. The person you knew is like one of the fingers. They retain their individuality, but they are connected to the hand. The hand has access to information from all of the soul's lives. You can talk to one of the "fingers" until the finger decides it no longer cares to retain its independence and merges more closely into the hand.

However, "the hand" can always answer your questions.

Anita M Cooper

6/11/2021 07:17:01 am

My deceased husband and I communicated for many years after his passing and then one evening he said goodbye and closed the door between us. At first I was deeply hurt as if losing him again. I do understand that he had to go on and let me go on.

Gail Kushner

6/11/2021 01:27:00 pm

Not only did he need to "go on," but he probably wanted to free your attention so you could move on too. He might have thought that you needed to be in the energy of the life you are living; paying attention to the here and now, instead of reminiscing about the past, or stretching yourself to the other side.

I'm guessing he also had work to do and interests to pursue on the other side. Perhaps he is sailing from galaxy to galaxy . . .

Loving Inanimate Objects

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