Peace not Pieces

Watching the OWN network today I caught the second part of the interview with Iyanla and Evelyn... powerful, truth and ah ha are all adjectives that come to mind. When you break that thing down it is the same story that many of us have repeated to ourselves all of our lives. We are not WORTHY!! My Mother and I just had this conversation due to some of my very own abandonment issues, which is why she left me the daily reminder that I wake up and fall asleep to each and every day; I am worthy. 

Jesus lived his life operating in love so no wonder we are all seeking to be loved and unfortunately we truly have brainwashed ourselves into believing it can only come from another individual. That we somehow are not capable of being enough to just love ourselves. Towards the end Iyanla made the statement, "you are worthy of your own time and energy." And to paraphrase because I did not write this quote down, that healing is important so that we are left with peace and not in pieces. Those broken pieces are what allow us to attract and accept other broken people into our lives.The fragmented parts of us latch on to any and everything ignoring the complete picture or maybe we really can't see it until it is too late or we are holding onto hope that we can pull it all together making the perfect picture. Whatever the case, we really need to pause long enough in our own stuff to recognize when someone we are letting into our space just isn't good enough. There really is no need to add someone to your life that doesn't treat you better than you do yourself, especially if you are already beating yourself up for things you can't forgive yourself for or because you can't let go. Just take some time to put your pieces back together so that you can have peace.