After a week of experiencing the culture of Budapest, a day in Brussels stuffing my face with Belgium chocolates and mussels, the moment off the plane headed right into a session with a client, the next day driving four hours round trip to pick up Pepper from my God Sister’s house where Pepper anxiously awaited my return, to a full night of teaching group counseling the next day, while making time for two more days of conferencing over the weekend to catch up with family, old colleagues, and professors, saying I am tired, is an understatement.
Can I say I am exhausted?
From the continued hustle and bustle of life, heartache and pain, disasters and trauma, debates and intense fellowships, estranged relationships and transitions, here is what I have been able to muster up to share in this post… Only LOVE can set you FREE!
While in Hungary, I watched the news about the Vegas Shooting, I engaged discussions about Compassion Fatigue, which is essentially one becoming exhausted from caring for other people extensively, talked about the process in Mentoring Women because of my love to see others succeed, the love of God – of course, and Same Sex love, is pretty much how I would define the content of the conversations. Since my discussions, I have thought long about how people respond after experiencing a crisis: the shooting, the hurricanes, the day to day political mockery, and the state of emergency America is facing.
Personally, the last crisis I experienced I was being told that I needed to make other decisions about my future. Recently, my family crisis has consisted of a few deaths and relationship challenges. However, when a crisis happens, love typically follows, “peeps give you love.” We have the hurricanes to thank for that; for reminding us of how to spread love to all humanity. I know, thanking what caused a disaster that also caused for the expression of love sounds like an oxymoron but that is the first step to recovering and truly healing.
RETHINK WHAT CAUSED THE PAIN. Instead of allowing the pain to drain you, embrace the redirection the pain has brought to you.
I had to thank the person (in my head) who told me to rethink my future for being blatantly honest so that I could actually envision something I had never envisioned before, A DIFFERENT FUTURE.
Which leaves me here, LOVE is a conduit for God’s platform in your life and so is PAIN. For every easy encounter you have to express love, challenge yourself to express love even the more toward the most difficult and painful encounters. Then take a deep breath because I know it will be hard at first but once you have completed the mission, walk with your arms open to receive what you have essentially planted into the atmosphere – Love for Yourself, Love for those around you, Love for the things you enjoy doing, Love 4 Love. To be free, embracing the pain, rethinking its purpose provides a high of a kind.
My arms are wide open… the release and freedom I feel I share with you. Have you ever found the irony in how songs have the exact words that represents our exact time and space? Lately, music has not only been my medicine but my voice. I’m so HIGH right now! lol
Written by: Dr. Fuller
