“Love everyone until they get to a new season for themselves,” Shannon Goodberry.  We ended last week discussing the dance and how sometimes it takes time to really develop meaningful relationships.  We also talked about how we never know the full value of a relationship until we learn the dance and stop trying to make people be who we think they are or what we need them to be.  When it comes to love, few truly understand the power of that energy.  I’ve often discussed the power of acceptance and how that alone allows space for people to grow and to be who they want to be.  But love is something else.  Love is the energy that fuels the next step and helps us see other possibilities.  We all go through hard times and it is up to us to stick with those we love, with that support around us when we are in the low eras.  We all have seasons where we thrive and seasons where things are a bit dry.  We need to love someone through it all—we need to love ourselves through it all.  There is always a new season and it is up to us to stick with it until we are able to get to the other side, to get through the hard parts and get to the new. 

Love creates growth in the constant acceptance of the evolution of who we are.  Through change, through shedding, through becoming, love is a constant allowing and encouraging of things to be.  Love doesn’t ask someone to be something else—love awakens who we are and accepts it fully.  Not to sound cliché, but love really does create an evolution of its own.  If we truly want to help someone, we need only accept and love them.  Of course we can do more whether it is physically assisting or whatever it may be, but the truth is all we need is that love and acceptance and that will bring us to the point of what we can do on or own, we find strength we didn’t know we had.  It’s empowering to know our capability and capacity for life through recognizing our own power.  Love also allows us to find/discover desires we didn’t know we had and to see opportunities we didn’t know were possible. 

The Midnight Library discusses those opportunities and possibilities in life, in how we would approach things that we regret if we are able to go back and try again or try a different life on.  In finishing the book, I came to identify with the main character in the awakening that occurs through the acceptance of life.  I struggled with her at first—well, maybe the premise of her—because of her lack of commitment to a life.  Perhaps that hit too close to home.  Life itself is a gift and as long as we are here and have breath, we really can create whatever we want.  I’m not saying it will be easy, but the possibilities truly are limitless—and the truth is we really just need to decide and commit.  The character learned to love her life as it is and it was in loving her life and wanting to try again that she was able to start again.  While her circumstances didn’t change immediately, the change in her mindset brought her to a new place.   When we love ourselves enough to pursue the things we want, we bring ourselves to that next season.  When we are supported by others, that happens even faster, but the main thing is to understand the power of love in our lives—it really can change everything.