Love and Pain

Hello Beloved,

I have a question for you today. How is it that we the people confuse love for pain and pain for love?

Sometimes I think that a few people get it right and find love that is real love. Where the love outweighs the pain ten or twenty-fold maybe even a hundred-fold if you’re truly fortunate. I think it is more common that the love pain teeter totter is fairly balanced most of the time. Sadly, many people spend way too much time on the pain side of the balance.

Those of us who know abuse understand what I am saying better than we care to admit. The abusers say they are sorry, and they will change and the abused turn off reason and understanding in order to swallow the load of crap being thrown.

Sometimes it is true that love hurts but it is also true that love can and should heal and soothe and warm and hold securely. I am not sure where this post is coming from but sometimes things just need to get out.

I count myself among the very fortunate. I found a love that outweighed the pain on the teeter totter of life. The trick for me now is how to balance the teeter totter on my own for the remainder of my time here. Just as there are different kinds and degrees of love there are different kinds and degrees of pain.

I have constant declarations of unconditional love in my world every day. These declarations come in furred and feathered packages, but it works for me. I think pretty much daily how much my Beloved would laugh at the critters antics or how much she would have loved the new additions to the family.

I know, no matter what the topic of discussion I can always find a way to tie it back to my beloved critters. I speak from what I know, and I think people would rather I tie things back to my critters than the Beloved I am without and the grief that will someday fade but never totally leave my heart.

Beloved, I hope from the deepest parts of me that your world has more true love in it than pain. Beloved, stand strong against the pain by wrapping yourself in love.

Beloved, have a lovely…

Mona LangmaackMelin