Meet Me in the Middle for Romance

“Meet Me In the Middle” ( 18″ x 36″) – $2, 267 CAD

What can I say?!  I’m a romantic. Are you?

Romance is a way of life.

It’s about joining with a moment, a flower, a feeling, a thought, or a person to experience each other with curiosity and wonder.

It’s the creation of something new when two elements of the Divine Oneness come together in that sacred space in the middle to be real.

Is the tree or river impacted by my joy of photographing it? I believe so.

Is your partner impacted by your truly seeing, accepting, and celebrating him or her? Absolutely!

Romance is that awareness and celebration of the delightful , comforting, vulnerable, revealing truth of the moment.

The very creation of this painting was romantic. It gave me its name soon after the vision popped into my mind. I hadn’t even finished varnishing my other dragonfly painting, “Aligned“, when this one called me to join with it for a magical few days of play.

I was taking a break from the spiritually intensive process behind the Re-Connecting Collection. I just wanted to play with paint while watching movies or listening to inspirational podcasts. I was in the mood for something lighter.

I’d had so much fun designing the multi-layered dragonfly stencil for the previous one, so I was thrilled for this new calling. A dragonfly duo! Yay!

“Meet Me in the Middle” celebrates the unconditional love that is possible when both individuals in a couple unite in unconditional love, which is only possible when they let go of illusions & delusions to be  present in Truth. It honours the role of both to see and be seen as well as to accept and be accepted for who they truly are.

Layer after layer the vision came into being as I was willing to meet and be with it.

Isn’t that just like in relationships?

Emerging into our full selves happens layer by layer, step by step.

Figuring out who we are as individuals and as a couple is a sacred process indeed!

I was married for 10 years.

As we grew together, we got to know ourselves better.

Circumstances made it so we couldn’t be bothered sweating the small stuff. We had too much big stuff to deal with. This challenge was a gift – I had to pull on all my inner and outer resources to support myself and my husband through life & death times.

Once we pulled through the crisis, however, we discovered that to be true to ourselves, we needed to let the other go. We were no longer living in alignment with our Higher Self – something we only discovered as we emerged more fully into authenticity. This required being honest with ourselves first and then each other. Not easy.  No regrets.

We’d been the best of friends and so wishing for the other’s happiness as well as our own was natural. Letting go became the most loving thing to do. We divorced with more love than we when we got together.

Thankfully, because of our challenges, I’d learned to not live under the hold of “What will they think?”. Being true to myself was more important than my fear of judgement. That’s important to live an authentic life. So I never judged my divorce as a failure. I could see it for the success that it was.

We were doing what was right for us and did so lovingly. That was possible because we’d truly lived and loved in the middle of that sacred space.

That was about 17 years ago. I’ve grown a lot since then, continually meeting my Self in that sacred space in the middle – getting to know and love myself as I continue my journey.

It’s so important to take the time to romance your Self, whether you’re single or in relationship.

That way, you’ll bring with you your truest, strongest, most beautiful, and most loving self to the relationship. From that sacred space can only emerge a more magnificent creation born of unconditional love for yourself and your partner.

Doesn’t that sound wonderful? Painting all this in “Meet Me In the Middle”  was part of my romancing idea of joining in Truth with the next right man for me.

Can you relate?

What does “Meet Me In the Middle” bring to heart for you? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below.