3 Love Stories
Hey family!
Everything we see, every circumstance, is in some way, shape, or form related to love.
The presence of love brings creation, abundance, kindness, and hope. In its absence, however, is destruction, lack, hate, and fear.
This makes love the most powerful force in our human experience. Unfortunately, though, past experiences can lead us down a path of separateness and isolation to protect ourselves. Some of us will spend a lifetime trying to pour more of ourselves into work, school, or romantic relationships to compensate for rejection’s long-lasting sting.
I’ll use myself as an example.
I didn’t meet my dad until I was 17 years old, and I struggled most of my life with feelings of rejection. So really, some of my earliest experiences with love were ingrained with the lack of.
This manifested in my deep desire to succeed in something. I wanted to become so successful and so excellent that I’d be harder to reject or abandon. So for majority of my life, my deepest motivations were rooted in my response to lack of love, and ultimately landed me in situations that were outside of my true purpose.
There are three takeaways here:
We must look at our life through a lens of love. Being able to recognize which of our own patterns may be coming from a place of fearing rejection or abandonment can save us from a lifetime spent trying to avoid it.
The only way to receive love is to let down the walls we put up to avoid giving it. Isolating ourselves or creating separation hurts, being in community and being vulnerable heals. Wanting to be on the receiving end of love will require us to live it out generously.
You can, at any point in time, become the authentic human connection, acceptance, and kindness to others that you once sought for yourself. Be who you needed.
The quote for this week comes from my favorite book, Three Magic Words:
“Love makes the world go. It will make you go too. Just let it!”
-Uell S. Andersen
Reflection Question: How can you love yourself and others better going forward?
