Sunshine or Salt?

"Love Never Lost" by Dar Freeland

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When we are in the presence of someone hurting, do we see outside ourselves to their feelings, or do we interrupt our natural response of compassion? If a child were hurting, would we just shake our head and pass by, yelling "hey! suck it up!" or would we stop and with empathy, love the little one until it feels safe and out of pain? What do we do with the children of the mind? In an adult body, or a shorter young body - makes no matter the size. It is a child's pain in an older frame.

So, when faced with a wound - of our loved one, or our own - are we sunshine that heals, or salt that stings?

--dar freeland

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Human Detours

"Fear Days" by Dar Freeland

images & text © 1997-2011 Dar Freeland | all rights reserved

Nothing feels more frustrating than to watch a loved one struggle needlessly with their own thoughts. A learning process perhaps - but habitual arguing, defeatist attitudes, self sabotage, literally standing on the freeway of one's own mind....how do we love them off the highway of self destruction? How do we ask; "please, don't allow yourself to be your own orange cone today..."

--dar freeland

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