Worthy of Love ♥♥♥

BLOG GIVE-AWAY!!!

"Love Is......"

Collabrative piece, mixed media, 16"x20", ready to hang.

Any comment left during the *Worthy* posts qualifies you to win this piece!

(Yes, that means you can enter more than once!)

Drawing will be March 17th, random number generator or

high tech *names in a bag*.......  :D

During these posts, I will have small sections of the above painting with the posts, as a reminder to get signed up.  All my blogfriends and readers are worthy of it. It is a visual reminder of what *Love Is...* I will ship where ever, though if it is a far off location, it might be through a slower method!

What has made it so difficult for any of us to realize and embrace the idea that we, as we are at the moment, are well worthy of love? As an aside, you have to realize as I sit writing this (Monday afternoon), I am tired, cranky, dirty and worn out. I'm not close to being verbose or eloquent; I'm just hammering words and brain dribble. For someone to love me in this present state seems a little on the impossible side, but hey, I'm hoping..... I mean, every day we have thrust into our faces images of utter perfection; airbrushed, photo-manipulated, bonethin-perfect skinned women (nay, teenagers) that someone has said...this is what you have to be for you to be loved. And if you aren't, well, good luck.
You must be joking.
Pfffft.
But that is not you, or me. Sooooo.....

I disagree.
In fact, I disagree on so many levels, I could fill a hard drive with my rant! I'll keep this short so as not to lose readers to delicious sleep.
You are worthy of love the way you are if you learn to accept love.....from others, from nature, from the universe. For the good you put out, that love returns when you open your heart to it.
Not necessarily romantic love (no one is coming to sweep this girl off her feet and onto a white horse unless he wrestles with the WWE and is riding a Clydesdale....ahem....) but that soul filling, stress quenching, all encompassing love that you used to feel as a child when Summer was about and dandelion seedheads were waiting to be blown to the four winds. When you watch a sunset of the most spectacular intensity, so that you don't know whether to laugh or cry and the colors glow upon your skin and you are embraced in the moment.....when you feel that everything is right with the world as your eyes close for slumber, in a soft warm bed....when you smell the first tantalizing scent of Autumn in the air. You've experienced at least one of those, yes? And remember the feeling? You were so engulfed in that second, doubts and fears were cast aside. The real you was there, open to the pure joy.
That is love. That is what you, at this very moment are completely, utterly worthy of if you will let it happen. Put aside the TV and magazines, the *experts* that psycho-analyze your every breath in front of 2 million viewers. Put aside the expectations of parents and friends, and sometimes spouses. The conservative ways we were raised, the scoldings in school, the mean co-worker who does their best to belittle us in public. Forget for a moment people who have wronged us and hurt us, lied to us repeatedly, thieved from our work claiming it as their own and made us feel we were worthy of little.
They are wrong. You were put here to be loved, because you are worthy of it. Every single, luscious, wonderful second of feeling it, pulling it towards you, accepting the gift that is waiting for your heart, pushing back the nay-sayers.......You were not created to feel LESS. You were put here for the abundance of MORE, and that's LOVE.
Let the universe bring you love.
Now.
Close your eyes and breath deep and let that idea soak in. Feel what is being sent to you---pure thoughts of love of sisterfriends.
And exhale everything else.
Everything. Let it go.
Just let it go.

Last evening, as I was struggling with my commission, arthritis fuming into a boiling stage, my husband said the simplest thing to me that was grander than any eloquent speech.
"I want you to do things that make you happy. I want you to have fun."
If that wasn't saying I was worthy of love, I don't know what else it could be.

Find your moment, embrace it...don't be afraid. Let it permeate you. Let it fill you up until you can say "I am sooooo worthy of love! I have been all along!" And don't let it go!

And let's hope it doesn't involve the wrestler and the Clydesdale.....LOL!!! That one's MINE!!!
Now get out there and let yourself be loved!
I bid you, as always....

Pax.