The movie " March Of The Penguins" documents the awe inspiring "job" that penguins are willing to do for love. They literally walk outside of their comfort zone for 9 months a year in order to provide for their child. It is their job, and they do that job without regret or desire for it to be different.

But, they have boundaries. There are limits that they know they must not cross. Although they go without food for months, they know at some point they must abandon their "job" and retreat back to the sea if the boundary they have set is not met.

What is our job? Perhaps we too must step outside of our comfort zone for love. But how far do we let that go? Do we let other people stay in their comfort zone at the expense of our own ability to live?

It is boundaries that set us free. Inside the boundaries we are free to fully give knowing that there is a limit. With no boundaries, or boundaries set out too far for us to survive, we are prisoners of not only our own desires to either please or be pleased, but also the prisoners of anyone who abuses our willingness to be boundary less.

What is our job? Our job is to begin with the right premise of who we are. All action that stems from the correct premise yields a result that benefits everyone.

The 10 commandments are boundaries that set limits in all areas and fullness of our lives. For example "thou shalt not kill" does not just mean to not kill a physical body. It also means we may not kill another's spirit. This includes our own spirit. This includes not allowing another to kill our spirit. This includes not allowing immorality to kill our sense of what is right and wrong. There are many meanings to "thou shalt not kill."

Beginning with the right premise of One Love always present and always acting as Principle, and as always intelligent Infinite Mind and we as the action of this One, than the 10 commandments and the "thou shalt not" becomes a statement of " thou will not be able to." The human boundaries will have vanished in the absolute knowing and understanding that all that exists is Infinite Love and that is the ultimate boundary. When we stay within these guidelines, within this boundary, we are free of all limitations.

In the mean time, boundaries we set for ourselves are a statement of the highest understanding that we have in each moment of that infinite Intelligent Principled Love. We must set them. We must live within them. We must not allow others, or ourselves for whatever reason, to displace them.

It is often a misunderstanding of the requirements or desires of love that keep boundaries from being set or kept. The One Love requires us to Love as It does. Love loves Itself fully and completely without a need for approval or another's awareness of It to exist. It allows - because it knows nothing other than Love - nothing that is not Love to be present. Starting here, with this premise, our boundaries are not boundaries that keep out or remove Love, but boundaries that keep us In Love without limitation or expiration.

The statement the woman in our office would make of, "It's not my job" evolved from her unwillingness to step outside her comfort zone for another. This boundary limited her ability to be more of an expression of pure love in her life. It limited her ability to feel the exquisite sense of joy that comes from unselfishly helping another. She did not begin from One Love that can never be exhausted, so she set boundaries that did not set her free.

If she had set her boundaries from within an understanding of One Love, than that boundary would have set her free to help others, but not at the expense of her own spirit. The penguins' love is awe-inspiring in their love for their young, their mates and ultimately in their acting from the boundaries of Love that begins with Love only.

It's not our job to do anything but Love as Love. Imagine the freedom and safety that begins with this premise. Freedom and safety are two qualities that appear to require opposite points of view, but when seen from One Love can be seen as two qualities that are wedded as one. The safety of the boundaries of One Love sets us free to live as and in the unlimited abundance of Love.

Beca Lewis ©2005

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