Day 31 - Love
Note - Each of these blogs can be read individually, or in order. Its suggested to read them out loud, it will have 1000x the benefit.
We went to a wonderful wedding today in Owatonna, MN.
It reminded me of my wedding with Jessica, October 8th 2021. We were married in Minneapolis, MN at the top of the IDS Center. It was a massive celebration with all of the people close to us.
Our wedding was themed “making love real” as a celebration of the realization that love = give, and to give/love in a way that honors both you and your partner (and all of Life)
If love is based on an agreement, and the agreement is honored, the love can be sustainable and ever-growing.
If there is no agreement, or the agreement is not honored, then the love can become corrupted from something pure and life-giving into patterns of limitation and consequence
So I enjoyed the wedding this evening it was so well done. It brought me back to appreciate my wedding. I loved my wedding day, it was a way to bring forth the principle of 'Making Love Real'
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that honor is essential to love
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to corrupt the word “love”
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to define love as 'the way I feel', while in actuality it’s living my decision to truly care for another
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that if I'm not feeling 'love' that my relationship has fallen 'out of love'
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to build my relationships from the desire to 'feel some type of way', instead of building my relationships within the dedication to create the world to be best for all life. This is the sustainable way to feel good and keep expanding within a relationship because the relationship is in harmony with the wellbeing of others.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to exploit the feeling of love
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to model ineffective patterns of 'love' from my environment, media and the collective culture
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that to effectively give love and receive love, I must redefine love in a way that is actually supportive and sustainable
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize the common sense of the principle of relationships as agreements
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to react to the principle of relationships as agreements, out of fear of losing the energy experience of 'love as a feeling'
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that basing my relationship on agreements actually feels even better than basing it on feelings because I know it is actually sustainable and life-giving for me, for my partner, and for all life
I realize that love in our world has been limited by our collective and individual definitions of this word
I realize that love is a living word that requires dedication to bring to life
I realize that love requires the ability to effectively change, learn, give and grow
I realize that basing my relationship on agreements allows a level of STRENGTH that is not possible if the relationship is only grounded in feelings
I commit myself to love actually
I commit myself to honor my agreements
I commit myself to notice all of the ways I can express love as the principles of 'making love real', 'giving as I would like to receive' and overall ways of being an effective co-creator with life
I commit myself to consistently foster the connection in my relationship
I commit myself to be firm in my principles, yet flexible in my expression
I commit myself to be willing to change and redirect myself and our relationship whenever it's required
I commit myself to utilize my relationship to change the world in the best way
