Today, lift your thoughts from a self-focused sense of responsibility - a need to be needed and useful, a need to tell yourself a particular story of your worth in the world - and let Love love its own creation in its own ways. Sometimes Love will flow through you to another, as a healing influence. Sometimes Love will touch that person in another way. Sometimes it is your job to accept other people's care for you. Have more trust in Love to love in its own powerful, effective ways, tending to each of us in the ways we most need.
Some of us tend toward feeling overly responsible for other people's feelings, growth, and suffering. This may stem from love, but also may be a pattern left over from childhood when we had (what is natural to children) a self-focused, inflated sense of our own power--or (less natural) too much emotional responsibility place on us by the adults in our lives. Or we may imagine that we have more power than we do because it easier to imagine that we have influence and have failed than that we have no control at all.
Today, lift your thoughts from a self-focused sense of responsibility - a need to be needed and useful, a need to tell yourself a particular story of your worth in the world - and let Love love its own creation in its own ways. Sometimes Love will flow through you to another, as a healing influence. Sometimes Love will touch that person in another way. Sometimes it is your job to accept other people's care for you. Have more trust in Love to love in its own powerful, effective ways, tending to each of us in the ways we most need.
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AuthorTarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm and numerous essays. You may read more of her work at tarnwilson.com. Archives
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