Love allows for appropriate short cuts

August 26, 2011

So, we all have negative voices running around our heads. source I’ve been retraining mine, making them helpful instead of harmful. Asking these questions of each voice has worked miracles so far… Where did you come from? When is it that I hear you? How do I feel when I hear you? What do I […]

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Love doesn’t do the lemming thing

August 25, 2011

See this thing… source It’s a lemming… If you’re into adorable little furry rodents you think it’s cute. If you’re not one of those people just go along with me – it’s cute. Look – here’s a cute close-up. source Adorable. No? Anyway… There’s one big problem with lemmings. It’s this… source The thing is […]

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Love does not put pebbles in shoes

August 24, 2011

source There’s a hurricane growing in intensity in the Atlantic, if it passes over cooler waters before making landfall it’ll lose power. Yesterday, I shared that the better “quality of life” the doctors promised, through medication, didn’t happen. And the voice that whispers, “Things won’t work out!” It gains power with this – or does […]

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Love has enemies that want desperately not to lose

August 23, 2011

source And you’d think it’d be all billowy sails, blue skies, and calm water now. But this negative voice defiantly continues to cry, “Things will not work out.” I’ve answered all but the last question (here and here)… I’m surprised, until I remember some early advice on Love War about enemies… Confront them with annihilation, […]

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Love does more than just not give up

August 22, 2011

source Five questions… then my too wild to be ridden stallion… will be ready to ride. Five more questions of the negative voice that rails, “Things will not work out.” Five more questions and what was enemy becomes friend. It’s the final stretch of the Love War on the negative voices that hold us back.   […]

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Love steps confidently toward the new, the daunting, the uncertain

August 19, 2011

source There you are again… you’re calmer than usual… not breathing fire anymore. You’d rather I ignore you… let you run unharnessed and wild… but we’re not done… And so I continue, in love, the “breaking” of this wild mustang – the  negative voice that tells me… “Things will not work out.” It’s part of […]

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Love has confidence that things will work out as they should

August 18, 2011

source So there you are. You’ve been in the training pen a few days now. You began with all fire and fury and I have to admit you scared me to the point where I had to back way. (here and here) But there can be no more backing away. So I settled you down, […]

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