Reblogged from Forgiving Connects:

Happy #ForgivingFridays everyone! Yay!

This is a creative prompt for you to write a post on letting go and forgiving, or what happens when you do that.  You can do your post ANY DAY this week!

It can be anything that inspires YOU to forgive and choose love – even if you’re struggling.  e.g.: write a poem, share a quote or video, do an act of kindness, forgive yourself or someone else. 🙂 I look forward to see what you do!

**This is my contribution to Frank’s photo challenge, Lift and Sue Vincent’s Thursday challenge. Thank you both!**

I had a dream last night that I was looking at a couple’s relationship from down near the ground.  What I realized is that I was seeing my potential move with my partner through the eyes of a child.

I’ve been feeling pretty scared to move in with him.  I have all these memories flooding in of my mom’s mental illness – how she would sit on the couch and do nothing, and how she would want so much from me. I took responsibility for her life and I remember feeling suffocated at times.

Today, I woke up with a different perspective.  What if, this move was designed EXACTLY to bring up those old experiences for healing?  I knew that I still had some judgments about my childhood, and feeling like I couldn’t get away.  Now, because of this move – and the possibility of doing it with David – I get to look at it, air it in the open, and learn.

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