My 2 cents for the day!

In addition to agape, intimate, and platonic love there is also unconditional love: The ability to love without judgment, conditions, or guidelines.

“Loving with out strings attached.”

In loving unconditionally we must first trust and love ourselves. Forgive yourself and those around you for any hurt caused or received. Love is not selfish and if we want to love unconditionally, we shouldn’t be either. Rid your self of the fears and misconceptions, which hinder us from accepting love and ultimately pushes others away.

Loving unconditionally is essentially loving with out asking anything in return. We can’t possibly learn to love without conditions over night. It takes a vast amount of soul searching and experience.

Embody the spirit of love and carry it with us at all times. Constantly move in the direction of the feeling and surroundings of love.

I must reiterate… A HUGE factor in increasing your love potential is to ultimately LOVE YOURSELF. It sounds so cliché. But how can you know what it is to love another if you can embrace your own flaws and show your self some loving with out restraint!

That’s my 2 cents for the day J

Reflections

I can say that I have had in interesting summer... The fist half was confusing, depressing, and what I would formally like to consider a complete waste of time!

However, things have really picked up for the last half... I have surrounded myself with the company of some great people and really made some wonderful memories. I have grown as a woman and really feel like I am figuring some things out.

As amazing as the last few months have been... I look forward to the future knowing that the shadows of my past are increasingly showing a lighter shade of gray :)

Rejoice

"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cat...tle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior" (Habakkuk 3:17-18,
NIV)





I was feeling a little down today and ran across this scripture that gave me a little bit of encouragement. Although I am not a perfect
Christian, I strive to do the best that i can. I know i make mistakes, however have never realized how great my faith is. I can go to God in prayer WHENEVER I feel the need. There is no woman or man on earth that I can say that about. No
relationship I have ever been apart of that is so powerful. My God truly speaks in actions and brings to light the saying "Actions speak louder than words."



In the last few years, I have been through so much and know there are great things destined for me. I just have to put forth the effort and never give up on the wonderful life I have been granted. God is good... however he has also given us free will. Good things come to those who wait, however waiting aimlessly produces no results.



In closing. I am thankful for my hard times because the make me stronger. I rejoice in the Lord when things just don't seem like they can get better.... for I know that the someday will. 



~KP

Personal Reflections

Personal Reflections.... me and my girls would have a good time discussing topics via email to pass the time at work!




Here are a couple of my favorites!
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What do you
relish without restraint? When you feel guilty about
pleasure, whose voice do
you hear in your head? How could you allow
yourself to enjoy more of life
guilt-free?


I relish the time i get to spend with family and CLOSE
friends... quality times filled with lots of laughs, memorble events, and NO
DRAMA! As well as the good talks we get to have when we are too busy too get
together! When I feel guilty about a pleasures that i KNOW im not supposed to
indulge in (lust and drinking and actin a fool) I definately hear my own voice
tellin my self "u know this aint right." Even more so, being a christian i hear
religous influence and it makes me feel SUPER gulity about encourageing those
things!!! If its something as simple as a piece of cake, i hear myself sayin
"maybe friut will be better for my sweet tooth!" Living as guilt free as
possible is defantely encouraged by living more "christ like" as well as living
a spiritually, mentally, and socially healthy and fulfilling
lifestyle!!!
~~~~~

"I gave myself up so completely to present desires
and pleasures that I
had no energy to waste on mere wishful thinking."
--Simone de Beauvoir


I see it as meaning, i surrendered SO MUCH into
my wants and needs (relationships we want, goals we have, lust we have, etc)
That the thoughts of them no longer put a sparkle in my eye :( Because i was so
engulfed in those immediate things, I had no energy to think about even better
rewards that I could aim for.

I can defenately apply that! working so
hard to get some immediate needs out of the way, when it comes time to think
about the future i get LOST at times and it frustrates 1) to see how much
further i have to go, and 2) that the things i am doing are controlling my mind
and my time not giving me time to thing about the bright side nor getting the
opp to think about things I WANT!!!!!

Does Love Exist???

I believe that love exist, however its infatuation with the thought of being in
love that we sometimes get caught up in as humans.... Thats y its so hard to
fall in love the RIGHT way with a person, because we are so in LOVE with being
in LOVE and In love with the action and not the being when it comes down to
it!

Love, means too many things too list... All the
superficial things that EVERY ones knows! Love is definately unconditional,
special, sensual, joyful, exotic, shared, given, recieved, ignored, jealous,
happy, sad, relentless.... CRAZY etc etc etc!

~Written in 2006... and I still fully agree! MUST expound upon this however!