PATHWAY TO JOY AND HEALING

Learning to love unconditionally is something I am actually new at!  The love I have given and that I have received up to this point in my life have much more to do with co-dependencies than unconditional love.  To be honest, I am learning to love for the first time in my life, and it is not easy.  Unconditional love requires patience, compassion, and overcoming our own fears of rejection, abandonment, and betrayal.

It takes great courage to unconditionally love another as I am learning. Most of us fear rejection and abandonment as it is human nature.  Who wants to be rejected and abandoned? These fears plague most of us. It is the ability to overcome these fears that allows us to move beyond our co-dependencies that gives love only conditionally.  That is, if you love me then I will love you back.  If you give me what I need, then I will give you what you need.

I have been tested before, and failed to overcome my fears.  In this lifetime, I am trying my hands at a different way of being, and living a different kind of life through unconditional love.  It has been a learning process, frequently testing me to my limits, but I persevere forward taking one day at a time.  Unconditional love takes great courage, patience, and compassion, and these are no small endeavors.  May you learn to give unconditional love in your life. (Copyright 2015 Living Wide Awake with All Rights Reserved)