Self-Embrace

Love is faith that, when we embrace ourselves just as we are, this is when we begin to grow, to change, to flower. It's taken me almost a lifetime to begin to learn that loving you does not mean wanting to help you, or heal you, or change you into someone better. Love means letting you feel infinite permission to be You, and no one else. Of course, this is the permission that God is always giving us. It is what Grace is. Our love is an opening, a flow of God's permission just to Be. Now I don't know why I'm even saying this, it's so obvious. But this breath tells me to.



Photo by Kristy Thompson