Reverse It: Love Never Punishes

Control . . . Manipulation

Punishment

All the same thing

Love never punishes

Love doesn't manipulate or control

Love does not disdain or disapprove

Judge or condemn

Kindness and acceptance;

Love . . . 

Do these disappear, or pull back

If you don't treat me right,

or agree with me,

or behave as I think you should?

If I'm only happy with you

When you're measuring up,

This is not love

I cannot say I love you

If there are conditions.

Love has no conditions

Though I do my best to cover

Feelings and thoughts that are not love,

They are perceived. . .

You know.

A person always knows

On some level . . . 

How eagerly I seek this love without condition

And, with some, it is easily given.

With others . . . 

My heart draws back

In judgement

In fear

of being hurt,

or of appearing to approve of something, 

or believe something, that I do not.

Placing possible disapproval or misunderstanding from others

ahead of loving the one before me

(including fear of being misunderstood by the very one I love).

Or, sometimes, I just want to control another

to suit my wishes.

This is not love.  

Love never fails

In my humanity

I will fail

I open wide my soul

To drink deeply

To be cleansed and filled

With Love everlasting

Love flow through me

Love my beloved

Through me

With me

For You do not fail

(This is not to say we cannot establish healthy boundaries, and sometimes must do things that feel hurtful to another.  The challenge is to have a loving heart, as much as possible, through all circumstances, whether the other person sees it, or not.)

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