2 thoughts on “Storytime ~ Chapter 16

  1. Those incredible spiritual, soulful connections with others…are always a very big lesson. And it can be close and happy, distant and sad. We get a couple of those in our lives. Mine…I fell in love…to the most incredibly beautiful lady. Everything was perfect, and for the first time in my life I opened, truly opened and fell deeply in love. And she trashed me completely by saying to me that she couldn’t go on with the relationship because of circumstances, not for anything I had done. And it was the greatest gift I have ever been given.
    I hurt. Oh did I hurt. A heart so trashed that I couldn’t even find the words to describe it. But it took me to where I had never dared tread, avoided at all costs and had a wall 40 feet thick against it. My greatest fear was rejection, and she had truly given me that AND begun a path for me to see why.
    You see, we avoid our fears, I mean really avoid at all costs…but those beautiful souls that we meet take us on that path of facing ourselves. And in there is that one thing we have ever looked for down here…that love and happiness we always searched for ‘out there’, but those souls they guide us away from that path and turn us inward, that path we avoid. But it is through there that it lays, waiting for us to dare its path…and face us. Only then do we see why…simply by facing ourselves and finally understanding why we do those fear things…and in that understanding a door opens, to something wonderful.
    We can never fully appreciate happiness unless we experience sadness too. And unconditional love also cannot be understood unless we experience that fearful (conditional) love we hold ourselves in. You know the one, where we ask our friends or lovers to not treat us this way or that because it hurts…that is ‘conditional’ love. Unconditional love is being fully, truly open and no longer hold that fear, simply because we have dared to go back to where our fears started, understood them, and let them go…and in doing so, love ourselves. That then…in understanding it, is the love we then give out.
    Beautiful post kind lady, you have dared that path and the feelings along it. The words will come…but what is love truly that we dare to explain it anyway. This journey is like the birth of a child and looking into their eyes at that moment…there are no words…but you ‘know’ within you what you are touching. Right there, right then, a love felt with every part of your being. We each individually have to ‘feel’ it, to ‘know’ and understand it’s meaning 😀❤️🙏

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