"The Beginning of Love...

Thank you for the four of you who gave advice  (Sarah, Becky, Rachel, and Shara :)  ) , I thought it was lovely and I would love to keep it with me and try to bury it into my brain so that I can be a better wife and mother when the time comes!  And I am still very open to hearing advice, so the more advice the merrier :)

My friend Christie posted this quote on Facebook today and I LOVED it:


"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”--Thomas Mertin

I think this is a lesson I have to learn better! It probably takes a lifetime to get there though, and its a lot easier to say it in theory than in actual practice, but it sounds to me like a good thing to think about.  I've also heard that to love someone means to see their potential and to focus on that and to love them for what they CAN be. I'm not sure how true that is but that also sounds good.