If your parents did not love you

For those of you, who like me, grew up with parents that did not love you, here is a thought.  We who for no fault of our own were ignored, set aside, shamed and beaten, well we have lived with the results of that upbringing for our entire lives.  It has not been easy.  We have worked hard to overcome what was imprinted upon us.  We have become better people because we insisted that we would not live our lives the way that they lived theirs.

So... I was watching a special on Jane Fonda.  I know that many in my generation and older are still upset with her for her Vietnam antics, but lets forgive that for a moment and let me make my point.

At the end of the documentary about her life, she said some profound things. Here we go...

Speaking of her parents, she said, Their incapacity to love is not based on your worthiness as to being loved. It’s based on the hurt and brokenness that they themselves received in their life and the lack of love that they grew up with. Someone must break the cycle. Someone must do differently.  Someone must love their children.  Someone must love all. At some point, our life stories have to stop being about how we were hurt and begin to be about how we can rise above the past and live a life of love.

Those words spoke to me.

It's a beautiful day in God's world be sure to see the good.
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Paris-Normandy River Cruise
October 23-31, 2019
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