THE REAL POWER OF LOVING

This post goes out to my mom,

BETTY JANE RACCA MADDEN, wherever she is now.  I celebrate this day to honor the being through which I came forth into this life.

For all of the wonderfully useful, loving, unique, special, informative, authentic, not to mention spot on, advice over the years I was so blessed to share with you, I thank you, I adore you, I love you!

I'm extremely grateful to even have known you at all, but then to have had you as my mother, too...well, I am humbled by the extent of my good fortune.

I will strive for all of my life to live authentically in the service of kindness, love, and joy with grace and gratitude for the love I was given. 

In a time when hate and meanness are being so loudly expressed,

I'm committed to look at the love around me

and express, through word, deed and intention,

my experience of the 

REAL POWER of LOVING.

Mother would always say, 
"When you feel like you've got nothing left to give,
love more." 
Some of the best advice I was ever given.

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THE WAY WE SEE OURSELVES IS REFLECTED BACK TO US IN EVERYTHING WE DO

We keep attracting, allowing others to treat us in ways which we say we don't want to be treated, yet we treat ourselves in this same manner, more often, worse. 

The treatment we allow from others, no matter the excuse we provide on the surface, is a reflection of our self-worth.

We judge ourselves harshly, then are shocked and offended when judged harshly by those around us.

If a situation is unacceptable, disrespectful or has the potential of harming you and you make no effort to correct this condition, you have told the other this is totally fine by your action, even if your words are declaring otherwise. Your words become meaningless, without any credibility or power.

All irritation is with ourselves for accepting something which is, on some level within us, unacceptable.  We are operating out of a 'story' of us, a character created by those closest to us when we were growing up.  We are persuaded to believe another's version of who we are, is the truth of us, but it isn't.  The longer we play the role defined for us, the more resentful and angry we become with ourselves for believing the lies we were told which say we are unworthy of being or having that which we came forth to be and do.

Find your authentic self and live it at all costs! 

At the end of your physical life, you will have no one to blame or thank but yourself.

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