When encountering someone in the grip of unhappiness, take notice, for there may be a powerful teaching unfolding. Often, judgment has arisen somewhere in their experience. Someone else’s behavior or choices have become a source of distress, something is perceived as wrong, and the ego begins weaving a story that seeks validation.
Rather than becoming entangled in that story, practice conscious, active listening. Hold loving space for the person to express their feelings without adding energy to the judgment. Sometimes, simply being heard without resistance or agreement creates enough space for a deeper truth to emerge, allowing them to discover their own way forward.
Judgment and Love are worlds apart, and where judgment takes hold, our experience of love becomes obscured. When judgment arises within your own experience, offer yourself that same loving attention. Write it out, explore it through Radical Forgiveness, meditate, or move into prayer. Beneath the stories we tell ourselves are souls learning to recognize one another through love, and within that recognition lies the possibility of transforming frustration into compassion.
This is love in conscious expression, and may you be blessed by it. Whether offered to you or moving through you, the Divine seeks expression in the here and Now.
✨ Blessings ✨
May you listen with an open heart.
May compassion soften the stories you carry.
May love find expression through you, again and again.