Love Anyway...

To my lovers and friends,

In almost every situation imaginable involving humans, you will face pain, confusion and disillusionment... and you will be tempted to become cold or turn into something you never hoped you'd be as a defense mechanism. Likewise, also due to humans that are not "you", you will be pigeon-holed, judged and unfairly lumped in with those that look or sound just like you... and you will be tempted to want to change to differentiate yourself from the counterfeits and the manipulators.

Well I'm here to tell you something. Outside of growth that sees you enhancing your awareness to the fraudulent, please don't change a thing. Stay beautiful, loving and accessible (only adding new safeguards based on your newfound awareness). Stay hopeful, true and passionate. Continue giving folk the benefit of the doubt once you've deemed them worthy and be mindful never to lose the "beautiful" God has graced you with since birth. Stay and continue becoming... all the "beautiful" you were meant to be. 

If only you could see what I see in you. The light beyond the glorious proportions... the kind that shines on past those beautiful eyes. The loving in your care. The tenderness of the impromptu embrace within your smile. You'd understand why "the enemy" wants you dead inside and cynical. Why the counterfeit want you for themselves and why you are made to suffer unto growth. Why, for most of your life, you've been targeted for destruction. You'd understand it all and see that all they tried to rob from you... makes you priceless beyond anything else and why after all we've gone through... I STILL house you in my heart with the same love. Your world & those that orbit it... need you in all your glory. 

I could never explain it all but in a nutshell... love anyway. That doesn't mean that you continue loving with eyes closed as you once did. It only means that you understand that just like character and anything else inside... the love we offer has to mature just the same. It will go through the same growing pains as all the rest until it exists impenetrable, immovable and sound. Your so-called failures were never meant to close off its source but instead... they were meant to force the source of your love to endure unto refining growth beyond them. So know that it'll be OK... and love anyway, my beautiful souls. As for me... I promised to love you no matter what... it's still true. I'm out...

Love...

~moses apollo