It's easy to love people who are like us, who may have been raised the same way, educated the same way, share the same values, or have had many of the same experiences. It's not as easy to love people who seem different. But if we are to fulfill God's plan for us, we should try.
It's not easy, either, to love the way we feel sometimes, or the unpleasant things that happen to us. But, like the people who are "different" from us, even our negative feelings need to be loved. Our fears, frustrations, pain, boredom, despair - these are part of us and they oftentimes have a greater purpose.
We may not think it's possible to love how we feel, but we can make the decision to love everything about ourselves - and then we can see what happens.
2 comments:
Hardest lesson I ever have tried to learn--love everything about me. I'm still working at it after 17 years of sobriety. But one thing I know for certain, if you don't love yourself you cannot love anyone else.
"We may not think it's possible to love how we feel, but we can make the decision to love everything about ourselves - and then we can see what happens."
I agree! It wasn't until I started embracing the things I didn't like about myself, did those things change. But actually, they really didn't change. It was more so that my perception of them changed.
Great reminder, Mel!
Thank you!
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