Book Excerpt The question, then, becomes how do you be love incarnate when you are not being gifted with what you want, what you think you should have, or what you were told you should receive? How do you be in love in the face of challenge, of others’ behavior, of creations that challenge the foundation of what it means to be love? How do you love the one who killed your child? How do you love the one who betrayed you? How do you love the authority that persecuted you, or the system of governance that took your home and left you without anything? These are real questions and we understand them. But the first thing you must know is that the action of love never steals, never lies, never blames, never harms. The action of love, and the action of love as you, is only to gift your expression as love. When you tether love to an Omtimes.com “I know who I am, I know what I am, I know how I serve.” outcome that is born in your expectation, you will fail. “I will love her as long as she . . .” “I will love this as long as I . . .” —you fill in the blank for yourself. Those are precursors to shutting off the valve that would express you as love. Now, what you do in the face of challenge, when you are confronted with something that you believe cannot be loved, is to decide that there is a new possibility. And we underline this: there is a new possibility. As you understand the name that you have been given, “I know who I am, I know what I am, I know how I serve,” you claim your authority and thereby you claim your inheritance as the one in March A 2014 Edition