Today is Forgiving Fridays & an opp for you to post about forgiveness – ANY DAY this week! YAY! (See guidelines below ❤ ) It’s also my contribution to The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge, Evanescent, or an experience that holds meaning for me. Krista, I am truly learning that love is inside of me.
Today’s Forgiving Fridays is loving and accepting myself as I am.
I got really hurt feelings last night.
A person I love a lot didn’t want to stay on the phone with me, and I just got hurt. I didn’t realize it until later, and first I just wanted to call back and say something. Have you ever felt that way, like you just kept thinking of things to say? When I realized that I was doing this, I stopped. I took the time to center in my heart and asked what I really need.
Here’s what I got: accepting and loving myself exactly as I am.
I have been looking outside of myself so long for love, usually from men. I did it with my Dad, with my ex-husband, and with other partners. It is time to stop and say, enough.
The truth is, I am the only person who can give myself the love. And those men can never live up to the expectations that I’ve set on giving this love to me, it’s not their job.
So here I go.
I accept and love myself as I am. I know that I am beautiful. I know that I am whole and complete. I breathe in love, I breathe out love. I forgive myself for judging myself for any and all ways that I don’t accept and love myself exactly as I am. And I set myself free.
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Last week, four bloggers contributed to Forgiving Fridays – beautiful posts!!
Maniparna of Scattered Thoughts wrote a gorgeous story on the kindness of true service.
Mary of HeartandSoul974 contributed an amazing post of how it feels to be kind to ourselves.
Pragalbha of Infinite Living gave us a poem (love her poetry) on the inner value of who she is.
Etta of Simple Etta D. shared the great value of forgiving in helping us go for what we want and living now.
For this week, I invite you to answer the following: How do you accept and love yourself What would you like to forgive? You could post a poem, or a photo that helps you to forgive, or a quote on forgiveness, and you can also simply say, “I forgive”. Whatever connects for you. ❤
I love you.
Love, Debbie
Here are the guidelines of #ForgivingFridays:
- Every day is Friday! Do a post today or anytime this week.
- Free free to be creative – there’s LOTS of space for your expression! Whatever inspire forgiving inside you.
- Tag your post with #ForgivingFridays (here’s a great WordPress article about tagging posts)
- Create a pingback link to this post. This way, I can create a post showing all of the submissions over the week.
- Have fun creating your own form of forgiving, of loving YOU!!
Hello dear Debbie,
What an honest post from you and one that seems as if you have walked your own way towards the conclusion you are seeking. Offering yourself the love first…beautiful.
Sending you much happiness and blessings,
Di 💕🌈
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What a beautiful post Debbie! Very well put 🙂
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Thank you Karen! So lovely to hear from you. ❤ Have a happy Memorial Day weekend. Blessings, Debbie
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Thanks Debbie! Hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend too! Super busy and full of trips for the kids…makes it hard to get back to the routine on the weekdays 🙂
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Congratulations on your insight and sharing. I accept and love my imperfections in he light of God’s perfect love for me. Voila!
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Go, Anne! ❤ Voila. I love this as an affirmation – a great direction to focus on in this path of forgiving. God bless you, my friend. Love, Debbie
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Thank you! I’m so excited to start participating in this Photo Challenge. What a valuable topic, too. Blessings, Debbie ❤
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Dear Debbie. I felt quite sad for you reading about your phone call. However I am so glad you are inspiring us all with your honesty and your openness and forgiveness. Blessings. 😍😍😍
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Oh, Brigid, thank you. I am quite grateful for what happened, and for my reaction – it opened me to a deep awareness that loving starts inside of me. Great example of everything as a blessing, huh? ❤
Thank you so much for your caring, and your love, Brigid. I really experience it – your presence is gorgeous! I love having you on my blog, and in all the other ways we connect. Blessings, Debbie 🙂 🙂
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Debbie, what a lovely forgiving fridays, again! I admire how you are always so great at sharing your story and feelings with it. I’m actually always looking forward to this new blogpost, it just learns me so much about love, forgiveness and acceptance. I have to say that I can have a hard time with sharing my feelings. That’s why I haven’t participated on a friday yet. I wanted to participate this week but I really had no inspiration and I had to do a lot for school. I hope I can participate in one of the upcoming weeks. Thank you for the invite! I wish you a lovely week! Love, Anne ♥
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Anne, you can participate if and when you’d like to. You are always welcome – just as you are. So glad these posts for Forgiving Fridays are helpful for you. Sending you so much love and smiles 😊
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I’ll definitely make a post when I have inspiration, but the inspiration hasn’t come yet, I’ll let you know if I’m thinking about doing a post! 🙂
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Sounds great, Anne! 🙂 Smiles and blessings
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I love it when the answers all come from within and reaffirm how much you know and how far you have traveled – you created your own affirmation too with all the words you needed at this time. Isn’t that just magical? Sending you love and blessings and we wish you a magical week ahead :o) xxx
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Oh thank you so much Xenia. Glad this post was valuable for you. You are such a blessing on my blog. 🌼
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:o) xxx
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I love that you are choosing to love yourself. It is a choice that opens our hearts to others. I forgive myself for not being kind and understanding toward the mistakes I made this week. I am human and making mistakes is how I learn. Have a beautiful day.
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Oh Ali, I love this. Congratulations on forgiving yourself for judging yourself!!! Such an act of loving. I wish you a beautiful week, full of peace, compassion, acceptance and opening to your heart ever more. Love and blessings — Debbie ❤
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To you as well.
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Thanks for being so honest Debbie! I just had lunch with someone who is very religious and she was saying that women should stop looking to men to be our everything; that’s not their role, but rather God’s role. We’re to lean on God and stop putting so much pressure on men. I tend to agree (to an extent) and I think it’s interesting that I should read your blog today, which touches on the same topic. Light and love to you my friend 🙂
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Wow no kidding, Kathy! Thank you for sharing this, it’s really helpful. Glad you read my blog today also – Spirit really brings us exactly what we need. You are such a sweetheart, and I’m so grateful you’re here and that we’re connected in love. Light and love to you too Kathy! Blessings 🤗
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It’s easy to be hurt when others don’t seem to care — I know what you mean. But forgiving them and moving on is how I need to do it. You are always so thought provoking Debbie. xox
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Thank you so much Rhonda. I was just talking with a client about how forgiveness starts within, which is such great news — because it means we can always forgive! Sending you many hugs and smiles. So glad you are here. Love love and more love, Debbie 🙂
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so true Debbie. Hope you’re having a sweet time in Colorado! xox
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Hi Debbie, I would like to contribute to your blog. Perhaps share a blog that speaks to you from my page, or I could write a piece specifically.
Loving oneself. So important, sincerely. I think this is something that we all struggle with at times. My blog has helped me to ‘open up’ in several ways, and here’s how:
1. Sharing my random thoughts.
2. Sharing and embracing my lifestyle choices, that include my choice of what I think, what I wear, and my individuality including my sexuality. Being able to express is very powerful for me.
3. Sharing my experiences through photographs, drawings and experiences.
So in terms of how this helps me love myself, as you have expressed it, is that I can be ok with what I am. Really. Blogging helps me to connect with others. My page is a place to be myself, and participation from others is optional.
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Yes definitely! That would be great. The best way to do this is to write a contribution for Forgiving Fridays, and I can share it in the next Forgiving Fridays post (just like I did in this one). Just include a ping back to my most recent post and #ForgivingFridays in your tags. Anything that inspires you to greater forgiveness, self acceptance, love, etc. Thank you for asking, and for following my blog! Blessings
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Hey how do I include a ping back? And do I do this on a Friday?
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You can do it any day this week! I’m not at my computer right now, so I’ll get back to you on this once I am. Traveling at the moment! Easier to explain when at my laptop. Blessings 😊😊😊
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ok, thanks Debbie, enjoy your travels!
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OK here we go! If you’ve never done a pingback, it is super simple. Just write a sentence or two where you mention forgiveness or that your post is a contribution to Forgiving Fridays. Then highlight the phrase that you’d like readers to click on to see my post. Then click on the icon that looks like a link. When you click on it, you’ll see a place to enter the link for my blog post. Here is the link to enter if helpful: https://forgivingconnects.com/2017/06/02/todays-forgiving-fridays-letting-go-of-blame/
Let me know if you have questions. It’s a privilege that you are contributing this post. Thank you !! And yay.
🙂 Debbie
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Debbie, I hope you accept my contribution. Hugs.
https://therandomblogofirreverentthoughts.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/forgivensss-letting-go-of-blame-a-contribution-to-forgivingjournal/
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Got it! And I love your post. Made a comment there. Will absolutely share this in my Forgiving Fridays post tomorrow. ❤ Many blessings, Debbie
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Many thanks.
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I think forgiving and forgetting works as a remedy to a soul which is hurt. It also helps to move on.
All of your posts are so insightful and full of wisdom, Debbie. May your #ForgivingFridays series flourish more. Lots of love to you…<3
Thanks once again, dear Debbie… 🙂
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Oh Maniparna, I love this! ❤ My spiritual teacher J-R has talked about how the forgetting of it is an indication of the forgiving of it. I really appreciate your wisdom and also your love and well wishes for Forgiving Fridays. It's a project from my heart to connect folks & share about forgiveness! Many blessings, Debbie
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It’s always a pleasure reading your posts… 🙂
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Oh Maniparna, thank you! It’s such a blessing to have you here. 🙂 Sending you much joy, Debbie
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