The Path Home Is Not Found In Perfection
To genuinely love ourselves, we must love ourselves as we are now. To genuinely love others, we must meet them where they are, not where we might wish them to be.
To heal, we must show up where the wound is, not outside of it.
We must turn up armed with love for "what is". We don't have to like it, and the mind will try to judge it.
Yet it is in loving ourselves in the imperfect state that we bring ourselves closer to wholeness.
We cannot wait for perceived perfection before allowing ourselves to be seen or letting love and compassion enter our hearts.
It is in permitting love to enter all of our perceived untidiness and amongst our perceived shortcomings that brings about transformation and wholeness.
When we illuminate all that is dark in us, we invite our shame back into the arms of God. We must allow ourselves to be loved where we are now. We come into wholeness when we do.
- Terri Morehu
Excerpt from The Only Way Out Is In
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