Nurture from love
Nurture is the process of caring for and encouraging the growth or development of someone or something. Do we nurture from a place of love or a place of fear? We should nurture from a place of love. Nurturing from a place of true compassion for the person and/or the situation. I love my family and I try to nurture them well. However, I could do better. What does that look liken you may ask. It may be cooking their favorite meal. You may buy their favorite snacks to have on hand when they need a little energy. or pick me up. It could look like cooking their favorite meal because they have had a hard day. Meaningful conversations when your loved one or friend is going through a hard time is a great way to nurture. Your home being clean and inviting is nurturing the people who enter the door. We make our home warm and inviting so others feel safe and secure. Our home should be a place where others call it home and smile. Home should be the one place they step in and feel nothing but peace and love.
“If you want to keep a relationship, you must nurture them with love.”
To nurture a relationship is to create a space that is judgement free. Leave all your opinions and “you really should’s” at the door. Usually what most people need is just you giving them love and compassion. They don’t want preconceived notions or how you think they should have handled something. Sometimes to nurture is to just show up and be there. Be there with all your love and be willing to pour it out onto the person you are nurturing. In doing so, you are conveying that they are enough. You meet them where they are (and where they are is okay). In the moment of difficult situations or conversations, someone must drop the rope. Are you willing to be that person? Dropping the rope means to stop playing tug o war with the other person. Just decide I’m goin to be the person that loves you even if you do not want me to or agree with me. I may not agree with all you are doing and saying but I am going to stop pulling against you. Why do we do this? We do this because of love. We do this because we are called to nurture from a place of love.
