Unconditional love is not so much about how we receive and endure each other, as it is about the deep vow to never, under any condition, stop bringing the flawed truth of who we are to each other. Much is said about unconditional love today, and I fear that it has...
If you try to understand love before being held, you will never feel compassion. There was a boy who knew how to make others relax by his friendly talk, and once they relaxed, he’d ask his many questions. But he always went home alone. The next day he’d talk some...
“We don’t let go into trust until we’ve exhausted our egos.” Rob Lehman There’s an old story about a man who was caught in a flood. First he was called and told to evacuate his home. He calmly refused, saying God would save him. The waters rushed the streets,...
The God in us is not a half-presence. There is no screening who we are. For years I lived this way: turning the side of me to others that they could understand, spinning the aspects of my true self like a lazy Susan, offering only what others wanted or needed or felt...
“I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.” Gordon Parks Our ability to find something to love, and to love again for the first time, depends greatly on how we resolve and integrate where we’ve been before. A great model for us...
