Happy Holidays

Wishing you and yours a joyful holiday season!

Here at Joyful Journey, we embrace the holiday spirit year-round! To me, the holiday spirit is joy, compassion, and unconditional love. 

I have a buddy here named G.O.D., and I am practicing to love him unconditionally! It is very easy to love my dad! He loves me so much, gives me my food and treats, and takes the best care of me!

But my buddy can sure test my patience! He will bark excitedly when he sees me, and that scares me. He runs up to me like a big bull. But he loves me so much, he cannot help himself! That enables me to love him even more. 

While thinking about loving others without conditions, I will include some great tips for unconditional love!

Let Love Flow Through You

Love isn’t a gift we bestow on another. Love just is. Love is a noun, and unconditional love is a verb. It isn’t we who love, but Love that loves through us.

As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Communicate with Love

Communicating boundaries with clarity and compassion means we stop trying to shape someone into who we want them to be. We decide what we need to be healthy and whole. Boundaries are not walls -they’re love in action

Forgiveness is rarely one-and-done. It comes in layers. First, we forgive them for not being who we hoped they would be. Then comes the harder part: forgiving ourselves—for opening our hearts, for getting hurt, for staying too long or leaving too soon.

Forgive

Each layer of forgiveness softens us, helps us move forward, and prevents the buildup of bitterness that can poison our bodies and spirits.

Love Requires Risk

Unlike the pure, endless love of the non-physical universe, earthly love is tangled up in emotions, obstacles, hopes, dreams, expectations, and disappointments. But that’s the point. Earth is for messy love because through it we grow our souls.

We came here to learn by loving imperfectly. Love will never be safe, but it will always be worth the risk.

Trust Yourself & Be Brave

To love unconditionally is to be brave enough to trust yourself even when you’re vulnerable.

~ thevitalspirit

I hope you appreciated this post and have a great and safe holiday! ~ Joyful