Gifting, What to Give that Will Last Forever

At this very special time of the year,  if I could give everyone one gift, it would be Unconditional LOVE of self.

Understand, You would be asked to love knowing you are not perfect because. you are only human.

However, even when we fall, love and belief and confidence can be like the rings of a ladder providing solid steps up from dark paralyzing pain into the light of love.

Of course, We can do this ourselves.  WE ARE STRONG ENOUGH, to do it alone, believe that!

Any of us who have spent a day, month, year or lifetime of sorts, beating ourselves up for our failures and our mistakes and our falls, has wasted too much time already.

Any of us who have been a parent, older sibling, aunt or uncle knows that when a child is little and falls, literally, you help by physically picking them up. As they mature, you step back and emotionally support them while they learn to pick themselves up on their own.  When unconditional love is there for that child, without judgement, the child hopefully will grow into a confident adult because they have known unconditional love.  I am not an expert but I believe this to be true.

Any of us, with a spouse,  who loves unconditionally, knows it can be life changing.  I relate it to the couple that have been married for 50 years "and never had a fight".  You know they have had a fight!  Astounding is that they were able to fight, apologize, forgive and FORGET! Leaving them with the overall feeling that they have never had a fight, because they do not remember the fights.  They remember the good times.  What a love story! Simple true and unconditional.

Life is never perfect, never really the way we think it might be.  However, what if we could

•  look past the imperfections, in ourselves and others?
•  lay aside our disputes, with ourselves and others? 
•  search out and concentrate on the good in ourselves and each other and our circumstances?
•  then forgive and forget the mistakes we and others have made?

Maybe we should start with unconditionally doing the above with ourselves!

Then with the people around us (we might have to do so from afar, to protect ourselves or children).  

**I do not recommend anyone staying in a fearful situation.  I am not saying that you if you are being harmed, you should forgive and go back for more.  I am saying that you should forgive and forget to free yourself of the pain of the past. Once you forgive a person, your free to start living your life.**

What happens when we forgive ourselves and others?

We set ourselves free.   

We leave ourselves open to the positive side of life.

  

We leave ourselves open to love without conditions.

We become content with far less than we ever thought we would need to be content.

My gift for you, starts with you.
                           These words could be a catalyst to change within you:

Love yourself, unconditionally. You are not perfect, you are only human.
       You were meant to be loved.  Be content with that! and who knows where it will take you.

Go check out my Facebook Blog Page appropriately named: Not Perfect Only Human.

Check back there or here and let me know if you accepted my gift and where it brought you.

Peace!