What Would You Love?

The quality of our lives can be shaped by the questions we ask. To create the life we desire, we can ask ourselves one fundamental question: What would I love? This question can be applied to various aspects of life, such as health, relationships, work (or where you spend your time and energy if you are retired), and financial or time freedom. Our desires are influenced by both what we long for and what leaves us feeling dissatisfied.

You hold great power in your imagination. To illustrate this, I invite you to imagine a beautiful sunny day.  You go out to your backyard, and there’s a nice, big lemon tree.  The tree is plentiful with big, juicy, ripe lemons.  You find the perfect lemon, pull it down, and head back into your kitchen to wash it.  You can smell the lemony scent emanating from the ripe fruit. You’ll need a cutting board and a knife, which you pull down from a cabinet and place on the countertop. Next, you cut the lemon in half vertically, then into nice, even quarters. Now, take a quarter up to your mouth and taste that lemon. Wasn’t that sour? Did your mouth water? Our imaginations are so powerful that we can make our mouths water, turn our faces red, and increase our heart rate. Most importantly, you can use the power of your imagination to start building a life you would love to live.

When we ask, “What would I love?” we tap into our deepest desires, which are expressions of the Divine within us. As American New Thought teacher and leader Ernest Holmes taught, desire is the thing itself in incipiency, just as the acorn is the oak. The Infinite Mind plants our most authentic desires; by aligning with them, we align with our divine purpose. In other words, our desire is the beginning of that desire happening.

This question invites us to discern between societal expectations and our authentic calling. It’s an opportunity to step back and listen to the inner voice of Spirit, guiding us toward the life we’re meant to live, not the one we think we should live. Proverbs 3:5 – 6 reminds us to “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding,” trusting that our deepest longings will guide us. Ask yourself, “What would I love?” and listen for your soul’s response, then trust that it will come to be so.

By focusing on what we would love, we energetically set the Law of Attraction into motion. Thoughts become things, and by dwelling on love-filled desires, we attract circumstances, people, and opportunities aligned with them. As Ernest Holmes said, “We are surrounded by an intelligent Law, which receives the impress of our thought and acts upon it.”

Asking, “What would I love?” aligns us with spiritual truth, clarity, and the creative power of the universe.

What would you love?

And so it is.