Revealing Me

It isn't easy to fall in love with yourself. Falling in love with you means accepting all the flaws that are part of the package. It's very hard to get past one's physical appearance when we are hit on a daily basis of what the media offers as standards for what is considered acceptable.

When I looked at myself in the mirror...and fell in love with myself...I really took a hard look at myself and my body.

I took a long hard look at my stomach and cried. There is, what I call, a kangroo pouch. It will never be naturally flat, no matter how many crunches I do. There is a slight overlap of skin on the underside.

I felt the familiar angry, ugly, emotional words begin to dance in my thoughts...until..

Gently ran my fingers along the verticle "tiger stripes" of discolored flesh. Live for my children ran through me and transforsmed my thoughts. I cried in utter joy and fascination as my own Mother Love washed my thoughts clean.

This imperfect part of me was the covering for the inner core of what made me Woman. It sheltered the womb that had brought forth life from within it's warm, secure confines.

Multiple times, this imperfect part of my body, had created something beautiful and magical out of a relationship that had robbed me of My Self. That Self that is part of the Creatrix in all Her glory. Several times this beautifully imperfect part of me had shown me how strong I am and how much pain I can overcome.

The housing of my womb, had brought forth life and it had lost life. Those painfilled times that the magic did not take hold and slipped from this world accompanied by my tears. Those moments of agony have allowed my Mother Love to grow. To expand beyond the Mother Instincts for my own children, to include all the children of this world.

My Mother Love lives, grows, strengthens within the beautiful shelter with it's markings of gloriousness. Mother Love brings forgiveness for all the wrongs I have done and all the wrongs done to me.

I can forgive and love my children. I can forgive and love my abusers.

I can forgive and love My Self.

This imperfect, beautifully marked part of me has opened my mind and my heart to re-birth the Mother Love that is My Power, My Legacy.

I Love Me!

I Love You!

Can you learn to Love You?

Many Blessings and Much Love to All,
~Faye~