We need each other.
Our stories make others realize they’re not alone, and that their questions and challenges have been seen before.
And understood, even resolved.
Our stories give others permission to step into the momentary messiness of surfacing and questioning what has confused or limited them.
To open themselves to change, with hope and encouraging proof of healing.
And when we hold others gently accountable, we remind them that someone else has chosen kindness and care, not judgment. We encourage them to stand assured through change.
For many of us, it's hard to see and solidify new perspectives and habits without having someone walk beside us.
Then there are those sacred, tender moments when we just need someone who knows us when we don’t know ourselves. Someone who gently reminds us who we are, and shares the unique beauty and strength that they see in us.
In our search for clarity and freedom, complaint and criticism yield to acknowledgment and allowing.
When the swirling negatives calm, we glimpse the belief that threw us off course – perhaps a lie, a misunderstanding, or fear. Then, we release what’s held us back and open ourselves to our truth.
It’s been there all along, patiently waiting for us to recognize that the perspective must shift within.
Sometimes we just need someone to hold our gaze to this opening of thought.
In the end, life is about living love. It’s the give and take, the lifting and releasing of one another, as we learn to fly.
Again and again.
In the stillness, we can see that Love has held us all along. Someone has just walked beside us, encouraged us to look within, shared their own journey, and reminded us to surrender to that ultimate feeling of our Divine that always companions us through transformation. ___________________________________________ Your friend is your needs answered.
She is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And she is your board and your fireside.
For you come to her with your hunger, and you seek her for peace.
When your friend speaks her mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when she is silent your heart ceases not to listen to her heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
For it is hers to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
- From "Friendship" by Khalil Gibran |
