Looking over our relationships with our selves and the people in our life we've come to love, the common bond seems to be that each of them is gifted in love. We've read stories like this in some of the AOL journals we're reading.
When we were growing up, and even in marriage, we faced an essence that was much less respectful. Our lives included people without boundaries who forced upon us devaluation and defeat. We see this too in some of the journals. We often feel the helplessness. But, we want to convey with our journal a sense of hope through love.
Even though in an abusive relationship, a parent, a teacher, a friend, or a boss can refuse to share love with you and put upon you evil thoughts, behaviors and influences, they can't cause you to stop loving yourself and your ideals unless you let them. Sometimes it seems necessary for the individual (no matter what the age) to search out the circumstances that will allow him or her to maintain and nurture this inner core which we believe to be a gift of God. We are allowed to make the best choices of accepting or rejecting. And, sometimes it seems that we are so limited in options that the ultimate relationship becomes no more than with a pet we can feed and care for. But, this is alright too, it is still love!
Our work is to advance personal development not only with parts of our system, but as well with Dear Heart our core. We are thinking that as skeptical as she may seem to us right now, she must have always held a sense of hope. She seems to have sacrificed her time for our time.
It seems now, the ideal would be to give back. We can do this with our committment toward selve(s), our friends and family, and with the people we work with and for. We can also do it through our continual efforts to write. We're not sure of the direction that our words are going to take us, but we're here to say ... our faith develops with each stroke. <Smile>
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