What Love REALLY Means!

Raised by two people extremely critical of everyone around us, I absorbed judging others with my mother’s milk. Then I hung around unkind, unloving, critical people and my goose sizzled. No love going on here.
Look at this shot of an uncritical person trying to look judgemental. This is what your face looks like when you’re mentally attacking others. To build up our own egos, we point out how awful so & so is. I know. I did it for years. But no more! I cut out of my life friends who gossiped behind other friend’s backs, rejoiced in their failures, judgments & criticisms falling from their lips on every hand.
Now I work hard at this business of loving totally unlovable individuals, calling on my higher power. I’ve managed to friend several impossibly angry women who would seem to be excellent targets for criticism. No judging them. Just me, learning to love.

You’ll never find Romantic Love till you learn to just plain love the unloveables around you. All the time. Maybe this isn’t your problem. Maybe you’ve never said a critical or unkind word in your life? I know some lovely people who I swear manage to do this all the time. They have lots of friends. When I hang around them, I’m not even tempted to go back to the old, hateful ways. And I listen to Gail Davies (link to the right) and other singers who remind you that ‘love’s the key,’ that will open that door.