Mary Magdalene Teaches Us About Love and Loving

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene

Today’s drawing is simple. It was a beautiful day in NYC and I had planned to go on a picnic with the young women at work, some of my team. It was a way to relax and connect after a long tough year.

It was really cute to see 5 big eyed faces looking at me after one asked me to tell her a story of my life or give her some advice. Me, the writer who is always musing about life here, found it hard to come up with advice on the spot. I told her, do what you want, not what everyone else wants. Hard advice to follow.

They all wanted to talk about love, and whether you can fall in love the same way you fell in love with your first love. I said yes. Only the older one of the five affirmed it. Four out of five are not even 24 yet, still so much to live.

Can we fall in love again like when we fell in love for the first time? Unfortunately, yes, why wouldn’t we be able to? The better question is: can we learn to fall in love in a wiser way, in a way that allows us to continue doing what we first set out to do?

Because, looking back, love always interrupted my flow and progress. It’s so delicious, it makes you float away.

Mary Magdalene, in her aspect of companion of Jesus Christ, teaches us much about true love and balance in a relationship. In several of the stories, like The Secret Magdalene or The O Manuscript or Tau Malachi’s Gnostic Magdalene, Mary Magdalene is the counterpart of Jesus, an equal, a strong and developed spirit, a learned woman. She is someone who spent time studying and growing before meeting him. She is a worthy companion of him, and he counts on her for wisdom and guidance.

And this is the real advice I would give to the girls. Do what you want and put in the time to develop yourself, because once you have developed your wisdom and knowledge, once you have become an equal who can be a true companion to someone worthy of you, then love will support you and elevate you, and the person you choose will cherish you and value you through everything you face together.

Life may not seem perfect. Many things will happen as we grow. But love and happiness are gifts that make life worth living. We also have to become the vessels that hold their greatness fully.