Thoughtful Thursday & Living in Frustration

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LIVING IN FRUSTRATION

I think back to the time when I was living in frustration.  

I believed that my adult children deserved my frustration because their choices were affecting our family. 

I deserved to feel frustrated because this wasn’t what I wanted. 

But what I came to realize was that my frustration was not changing my children’s choices.  

In fact, it was affecting my relationship with them.  

I was suffering while they continued to make the choices they were making.  

I have learned that love is always available.  

I can love my children and allow them to live their lives however they want to.  

I can accept that they are each on their own journey and it is not my job to control them or change them in order to love them.  

I can disagree with their choices and want something better for them and still love them.  

Once I truly understood this concept, I was filled with relief.  

Love will always serve me better.  

I decided to choose love for my own sake.  

Am I perfect at it yet? 

No.  

I am continually practicing. 

But the truth is, when we deny ourselves the feeling of love, we are the only one who suffers the effect of that choice.

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