This book, written in response to many requests by friends on Facebook, is composed entirely of my Facebook sharings on the infinite spirit that is in us all. This is not the kind of book one reads straight through, from cover to cover, moving from premise to premise in order to reach some logical conclusion. It is a book to be read intuitively, contemplatively, here a little, there a little. Its aim is to inspire, to uplift, to validate, and, hopefully, to help the reader to center within, where his/her true self (Love) resides. Being non-religious, if I have a church, it has nothing to do with any organized institution-or with a building-or a gathering together of bodies who happen to share some beliefs in commmon. The Facebook community is one part of what I consider my church. My church exists at the subatomic level, as the ONE power that binds us all together between those theoretical atomic particles that science says make up the material of our universe. It is that connection that pulls us all together as tiny bits of awareness in the ONE GREAT AWARENESS that some call God. And so, this is my church, my gathering. It is a gathering within the infinte invisible. I call this connecting power or source Love. It is not only my Source, but also my parent (and yours), the ONE Presence in which we all live and move and have our being. Moreover, despite outward appearances, we are made in Its image, as Love and as LIGHT, though we barely remember our true origin. We are now, it seems, almost to flashpoint, almost to where, en masse, we are awakening to our unity, our innocence, and our Divine origin. We are, collectively and individually, remembering this singular flow of Love within us, and we are forgetting that old tree of two opposing powers that once enslaved us to an existence lived in isolation from one another and from our Source. The fig leaves are dropping. And we are beginning to walk once more as naked LIGHT, divested of our consciousness of being in "coats of skin" Now we are beginning to wake up and walk simply as the Love and LIGHT that we are. We are many Loves, many expressions of the ONE Love walking. When we, by Love ITSELF, are awakened from within, we realize our ONENESS and we ARE the only church that truly is. And this, then, is WHEN Love GOES WALKING, in us, AS us, as ONE.
When Love Goes Walking is the second book for author, Diana Robbins. Her first published work, Eli and the Figure Eight, is fiction, while this current work is an anthology of her prolific Facebook writings, collected over the period of about one year. Now recovered from religion per se, Diana was born into a hyper-religious "Christian" family wherein she, like many of ALL generations and of other religions, was mentally, spiritually, and otherwise abused and neglected. She became well-acquainted with abandonment and hunger. But she survived all that by the Presence of the ONE within her. She was-and still is-that proverbial "Child Who's Got Her Own." Mother of three grown children and grandmother of six, Diana is a retired nurse, but has had a number of vocations and avocations, of which writing is only one. She describes herself as a "Jill of all trades and mistress of none," whose endless intellectual curiosity about the world at large led her down some blind paths, but at the same time, helped her to see that there is a higher consciousness of life and love beyond the human experience-an experience beyond the limitations of mere human intellect. When your gifts outweigh your perceived limitations, you find ways to survive and to transcend. But, guess what, reader We ALL have such gifts, without exception, and in great abundance. We can all get in touch with our original, innocent and awake self. We can transcend this often discordant and death-ridden human experience. It is not a matter of escaping anything, but of transcending what was never meant to be our experience at all. It is this transcendence of a discordant life experience that Diana shares and writes about, with a passion born of this inner Love in which we live and move and have our being, this LOVE which seeks Its expression through us.
