We love to be loved

[caressa]

Found today's reading to be very powerful. I looked out of myself for years to find love. What I came to realize when I came into recovery, and my son got caught up in his addiction, I passed a lot of my fears along to him.

I didn't know how to show and express love and the two of us are getting better now he too is in recovery yet I know he still has a problem with it. I try to remember to say, I Love You Son" when he phones. He doesn't have a phone I can call to get in touch with him. So my love is sent in prayer and hopefully, he is open to receiving it.


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[SunnyGirl]

Enjoyed today's reading, it made me think!
Thank you for sharing Caressa.....

This journey has been a long road for me..... It's an unending
adventure and I have made so many discoveries about myself.
I have changed many aspects of my character but I am still
a work in progress!

I've discovered that in order to love other's, I've had to learn to
love myself and be a more lovable person. Another major
concept was, having a loving God and I can turn to Him with
all my concerns and He is always willing to listen. I am still
amazed at how patient He is with me, He loved me until I
learned to love myself.

Today, I can show love to my addicted loved ones without
fear that I am endorsing their addictive behavior. Today I
know that my God loves them despite their faults, who am
I to offer less. I want to be there to show support to them
when they're trying to do the right thing and to pray for them
when their life hit's a spiral. I remember a song from my
youth....

Jesus loves me when I'm good. When I do the things
I should. Jesus loves me when I'm bad, but it makes him
very sad. Yes, Jesus loves me!

I want to be just like HIM!

Peace on the journey, SunnyGirl

[caressa]

Your post reminds me of a saying I heard more years ago than I care to remember, about a little boy who was asked who God was. He replied, Teacher, everyone knows, God is a feeling."

If I had to add a feeling to God. It would be love. It is unconditional, forgiving, and caring.

God is as He reveals Himself to me today. The key for me, is to keep looking for Him. When I think I KNOW who God is, I might just stop looking and listening for Him.

God is great. God is good. Let us thank Him for this food. For the food and everything else in my life. He has been very good to me.

God is Good. Good is God. God is Love. Love is God.

[majestyjo]

You are reading from the book Each Day a New Beginning

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.
—Ursula K. LeGuin

We love to be loved; we love to be held; we love to be caressed. A show of appreciation we love too. And we love to know we've been heard. The friends, the spouses, the children in our lives want the same from us. Like a garden that needs water, sun, weeding to nurture the growth, so does love need attending to. To become whole and healthy women, we need tender nurturing. And we also need to give away what we get. Those we nurture will bless our growth.

Love is dynamic, not static. It is always changing, and it always changes those it enfolds. Since coming into this program where the sharing of oneself, the open expression of love, is profoundly evident, we each have changed. And our presence has changed others. We have learned to accept love and give it. But better yet, we have learned that we deserve love.

I will look around me today at others, and I will remember, my growth and theirs depends on loving and being loved. I will reach out. I can make love new.

This last line speaks volumes. I was pleased we had members out today. It is a sign, for me that a group is good and that just not one member is running the group. We can do what I can't do alone.

[majestyjo]

Well it is still "We", Lin and I are still here with a new member that has made some shares which is bonus.