What Is Love – Own It

By Doreen Washington

Love holds no boundaries, will forgive the brutally guilty and love will cause us to lay our lives, values, morals and dignity down for a while.  Love is a peacemaker, it gives, has compassion and heals.  It sheds tears for another and it causes us to lay awake all night for one.  It opens the stubbornness of hearts, it selflessly sees no fought wanting and wishing for nothing else but love.  It’s wonderful, gratifying, satisfying and causes our hearts to skip a beat when we think about having this love.  Love can be satisfied in so many ways, identified in a special way and put out in an unusual way, but do you own it?  Do you own the feeling and expressions of love in your life and inside your heart?  Have you demonstrated to those most closest to you that your love is pure, sure and true?  Own the love that you have, and express its forces in the purest of ways. It is what makes us unique and causes us to stand out from those who refuse to show this greatness. It helps to characterize who we are as women. No matter what has devastated us in our various relationships and what has given us joy, we can share the love that we own.  It will define your beauty, character your personality, and mark your sensitivity and power to forgive.  Let love flow free and let us not confuse it with the illusion of love.  Read a clip from my newest book, Trapped, below regarding the illusion of love being confused with the reality of love.

This feeling comes when we think about his walk, and any hint of attention from him seems to ease our yearning. What would we allow ourselves to do and allow ourselves to go through in order to marry and have love? The thought of imagining ourselves alone and without love is devastating. It has begun to affect us emotionally, and we are now beginning to experience real pain. Something has captured our attention, and we peek to see if it’s him, if it could be love - only to find it’s our imagination. Our position in longing for it has grown into an obsession, and the thought of love has released new feelings, feelings that we do not quite remember having before. It’s as if it has taken over our very thought process. Allison entered a whole new world when she confused the illusion of love for the reality of it and found herself Trapped!

We must own the love that possesses our very being and own it in the most genuine of intent!  We Are Woman!

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Wednesday's "We Are Woman" column is created by Doreen Washington. Doreen resides in Newport News, VA.  She is the author of her newest book, We Are Woman, an inspiring book that speaks to women about their strength, value and victories. Her next book, Trapped - Learning to live free while waiting for romance and marriage, will hit book stores in early 2010.

Doreen Washington is also the Founder and Executive Director of The FACE Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that focuses its resources on assisting single working mothers. You can visit Doreen's blog at www.doreenwashington.blogspot.com.