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Showing posts with label Agape. Show all posts
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9.24.2013

***** STOP. STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING. READ THIS. NOW. I've been imploring a friend to share her story. She just did and gave me permission to share.

She is a giving and gifted artist.

"Hope your feeling better today and that your energy is returning to you!

A friend of mine told me that I should tell you my story of unconditional love. She thought it would further inspire you. So here it goes....

My father was a evil man , he physically and sexually abused me beyond imagination . I was passed around to his friends like a party favor. He was paid well for me even at the age of 5 ... When I was 12 I had a baby beaten from my body that he then killed and took away. It was his child.

I left home at 14. When I was thirty I was called by my family and my mother was on her death bed.. I cared for her , giving her sponge baths and singing to her.. With her last words she told me she never loved me and that God would never recognize my existence . I held her as she died and forgave her , I prayed for her.

Soon after my father took ill with lung cancer... I took care of him until he died and forgave him on his death bed while he was in my arms.

The year I took care of him was one of the hardest years of my life... I asked him everyday why. I never got an answer till the last day ... He simply said , because I could .

When I told him as he died that I forgave him and loved him , he asked why... I said because I could.


That is unconditional love . To love in the face of hate. No matter the pain caused to you ...

I wear the scared body they left me .. Imprints of a hammer on my skull .. Deformations in my back from the cage. Brittle bone from childhood malnutrition ... Burn marks and frontal lobe atrophy from the extreme abuse. Yet I forgave , I loved.

 Unconditional ... I know the word all tooo well , I live it ! You may share this if you do not share my name."

Post Script:

I asked my friend: Does this quote from Eve Ensler, relate to you? "The only salvation is Kindness." Does that relate to you? 

My friend's reply: 

"Love is salvation and my reason to keep moving, breathing , and understanding other people ! It's what I hold highest in my life... I was raised to know never to put value in things .. Things come and go and are meaningless .. But the living are the only value of spirit and love! ( thank you grandmother !) I understand every ones pain is relevant.. Your experience of suffering is as valid as mine. I am sorry you endured it!"

6.21.2013

5.19.2013

vlog 'Family's NOT biological. Family is Being, how you are, inside, and therefore toward others.' L

[I mis-spoke mid vid - "Synonyms" of Loving, not "Symptoms " - Partnership, Family, Solidarity, Helping, Respect.... Cancer in the brain now, or just Brain Cramp? LOL. Tho, symptoms, too] .

5.05.2013

nd 'For the last 13 years that I've devoted myself To humanity I've been alone, with some Miraculous, Heroic, Sheroic exceptions along the way. Not any longer. This most recent crisis, family, nonbiological, just came running to my assistance from all directions. Rather, I pray they came to the assistance of my work.' Loving

nd 'For the last 13 years that I've devoted myself To humanity I've been alone, with some Miraculous, Heroic, Sheroic exceptions along the way. Not any longer. This most recent crisis, family, nonbiological, just came running to my assistance from all directions. Rather, I pray they came to the assistance of my work.' Loving

4.10.2013

Ecocide's Death, Fast Day 13: 'I DIDN'T KNOW MY AVATAR COULD DO THIS - STILL GOING STRONG ON 3HR SLEEP IN THE LAST 48, 25,000 CALORIE DEFICIT. BUT I'M JUST BARELY STAYING ON THE HIGH-WIRE. Hmmm. And anyone that 'gets' what is near certainty now for our children? They'd not be in similar jeapardy? FOR CERTAIN, THEY WOULD BE / ARE. WARNING: I CANNOT SURVIVE, WILL NOT ALLOW ANY DISTRACTIONS NOW. MY ABILITY TO SERVE WOULD BE SHATTERED - I'D FALL OFF THE HIGH-WIRE.' Loving

Ecocide's Death, Fast Day 13: 'I DIDN'T KNOW MY AVATAR COULD DO THIS - STILL GOING STRONG ON 3HR SLEEP IN THE LAST 48, 25,000 CALORIE DEFICIT.  BUT I'M JUST BARELY STAYING ON THE HIGH-WIRE.  Hmmm. And anyone that 'gets' what is near certainty now for our children?  They'd not be in similar jeapardy?  FOR CERTAIN, THEY WOULD BE / ARE. WARNING: I CANNOT SURVIVE, WILL NOT ALLOW ANY DISTRACTIONS NOW. MY ABILITY TO SERVE WOULD BE SHATTERED - I'D FALL OFF THE HIGH-WIRE.' Loving