lessons from heartbreak and heartache

-true love is real. and it is moroni 7:45.
-my pride manifests itself in demands, expectations and stubbornness that things should be a certain way.
-love is a choice. love is giving. love is also letting go, giving in, surrendering for someone else.
-heartbreak is oh so real. it has to be worked through. no amount of hope can kill the emotions that must be processed in a broken heart.
-yet, hope is enabling. it is amber, honeyed belief that someday, not today and probably not for many days but someday, it will be okay.
-humility is power.
-change in relationship status does not negate magic that happened. that is still real. it doesn’t have be erased or made bitter.
-i need someone who challenges me to be gentle and sweet and less selfish.
-i must listen and respond to promptings to relax, to choose appreciation over expectations and empathy over demands, and to let go.
-i am grateful that my life is rich and deep and hard.

the images in my recent posts about my broken heart are all photographs by barbara morgan of the dance art of martha graham. i wrote a long paper in college about morgan and graham’s collaboration and adore these images which evoke so much emotion.