The Spirit of Love
The more you become reconnected to your emotions, the more you may
realize that holding on to bitterness and resentment is just not working for
you anymore. Healing softens the heart
and allows room for forgiveness and compassion.
Eventually, there comes a time when you’re able to look back and find
yourself feeling pity for those who have caused you pain… wondering what
traumas they have endured that have produced such hateful, cruel attitudes and
behaviors.
That awareness is not a sudden, startling thing. It moves quietly through you, permeating you
with an understanding that sometimes bad things happen to good people for no
explainable reason; yet with that awareness comes gentle pleasure and an
acceptance that you are right where you need to be to learn and do what you
were sent here for…
Your life becomes fuller, richer, more satisfying. You have created a home for yourself, made
friends who share your good times and bad, gained confidence in being
self-sustaining, and are generally able to say – sometimes with surprise – “I’m
actually happy!” You have learned that you have within
yourself all that you need, and are content with your life just as it is. You have finally grabbed onto the
understanding that no one can fill the empty spaces inside except you, yourself. And you have done the hard work to make that
happen in your life...
It is often at this point, when you least expect it, you may
find yourself drawn to someone special… a person who is unlike anyone you’ve
ever known before… someone whose presence lights up your world and around whom
you just feel wonderful… You may be so
unprepared for this phenomenon that you have trouble even naming it.
And then, one day, you realize that what you’re experiencing is love. This can be so frightening that you may run
from it, or try to deny it, or move away from it… afraid that if you allow
yourself to be vulnerable again, to love again, you will be hurt, just as you
were before. Many of us who have been
abused have never known real love before… we have only lived with the dream of
being in love and the nightmare of violence.
Will you have the courage to take that risk? To take the chance of learning that love is,
truly, patient, kind, and full of understanding? Can you trust the Spirit of Love? That Higher
Power, that Divine Being – by whatever name It may be known to you – Who wants
only the best for you, gives you the choice…
What will you do?
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