Devotion is Here and Now
True devotion is an aspect of reverence and admiration for the beloved.
Devotion makes no requests. Devotion craves what will happen.
Devotion in Connection means I celebrate all that you are. It is absolutely unconditional—I love what you choose for yourself, I love your right to choose it, I preserve that you have the right to choose ANYTHING.
Devotion in Relationship means that I have chosen to invest time, energy, and attention to create with you based on what I have seen of all that you are. Accepting every achievement and every failure, every perfection and every flaw, every abundance and every limitation, I choose to create with you. Devotion in relationship is love in action, it is *supremely conditional* because it is an investment of precious finite resources in our one and only life. But it does not lay out the conditions as requirements of others, it seeks in the world those who hold their own passion for these conditions, and invests there. My exquisite attention on what I admire shows me only worthy investments.
In Devotional Relationship, I have chosen to bring the beloved all the way in, and therefore I choose to only relate from the soft sweetness that is all the way in. If I find this is difficult to maintain, then I know I may be making an unwise investment.
Devotional Relationship looks on the other as a resource and an asset that serves *prosperity* not need. Devotional Relationship is found in the complete unsafe safety I can provide myself, and the knowledge that nobody else can make me safer than that. The other is here to make it all unspeakably better, not to fix any aspect of my life.
Devotional Relationship is driven by the intimacy that is in love with what is, in love already with all that might happen, maintaining attention on the aspects of the beloved and the relationship which inspire admiration, worship, and reverence.
Devotional Relationship is efficient and respectful of the resources of time, energy, and attention. Devotional Relationship passes time in love, directs energy toward maintenance and creation, puts attention on appreciation and worship. That is ALL. Again, if I find this difficult to maintain, this may be an unsound investment.
Because Devotional Relationship is efficient, it requires much less of our time, energy, and attention than we may have ever imagined. In fact, it might free up time, energy, and attention when we bring a new resource into a life which is already thriving, generative, and sustainable.
Sometimes this is the pitfall of those who find devotion and lose it immediately. They free up their time, but they only know how to spend it "working on" the relationship.
A relationship which is compatible does not need work. All it needs is presence.
(*You* might need "work" to maintain presence.)
In seeking something to fix, they break the relationship, examine small flaws, polish till everyone is raw, and, bam, worship is out the window. Reverence doesn't have their attention anymore. They're back trying to fix or to build something.
This is another of those conditions of Devotional Relationship—one which is required of those who seek this practice.
(P.S. you can only have it when you ARE it, not just the love but the discernment and wise investment. This is not because you suddenly "attract" it after that, this is because inside of you is THE ONLY PLACE it can actually be.)
The condition is this: you must look with loving eyes. Your attention must be on love, because your attention on love IS the entire experience of Devotional Love. You give it to yourself, including from the infinite offering of the external world.
Devotional Love, and the villages, communities, families, and homes which thrive on it, is HERE AND NOW.
I am here for you if you don't know how to claim it. There are literal skills and technique, as well as a transmissible tone. It's all here and now.