HEARTBREAK OF A TEENAGER

Both of my daughters have recently been hurt and are feeling sad. I hate feeling and being helpless. I would gladly take the pain from them if I could. These are hard lessons you need to learn as young women but it is hard to watch it. I hope they both know that I love them and know that better things will come to them. I just wish they could see the future and how it all really does work out. I love you girls.

Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace it's power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join two souls, melting the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.