A year to “Kiss Your Life”
You can learn to “Kiss Your Life” this year. It may be a now or never opportunity. I have selected twelve readings from my book, Kiss Your Life! that will direct our conversations on the blog each day and the live chat room each month. Writing this book was an unforgettable journey and now I continue that journey with you!
Introduction:
“From the beginning of life, we instinctively know that we should kiss what we love. We kiss our hands, our feet, our toys and pets. Kissing becomes the way we open our soul to what is dear to us. We even become skilled at getting other important people to return those kisses. We crave kisses as the truest expression of love. We learn quickly that kissing says so much more than words can convey.
Kissing means:
I cherish you,
I need you,
I am part of you, and
I can’t imagine my life without you.
So kissing with our mouths has always been the kind of kissing we understand and do most often. However, as we mature, kissing becomes more complicated. We never stop wanting to kiss, but we do so less often because we don’t know how to resolve the complications of kissing-moments.
This book will help you understand why your kisses may have been dismissed and will show you ways to Kiss Your Life! again.
January 19, 2012 Healthy Love Reason 146 – Page 164
Healthy Love
Finding new ways to think about love is an important step toward healthy loving. It is not easy to kiss the romantic, self-sacrificing ideal of love that you believe in goodbye. Everywhere you look, love is portrayed as:
Beautiful, but owned.
Hardworking, but tired.
Busy, but lost.
Thin and soft, but powerless.
Competent, but dependent.
Educated, but controlled.
Eager, but afraid.
Our daughters are confused by love. They know love doesn’t come out on top, but they know no other way to love. Who will show them? Who will point them in a new direction? You, I hope!
You will talk to them about the contradictions in your own life. Your honesty feels shocking to you, but refreshing to them. You will help her find gatherings of other women who are redefining healthy love.
Together, you can silence the unworkable and invent the truthful, enduring love that echoes into eternity.
