Showing posts with label unconditional love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unconditional love. Show all posts

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Blue sky day

Finally . . . a weather warm up in Central Florida. If you read the last post, you will know that I am one happy person today . . . temps in the 70's by this afternoon!!  Now I can get to the mounds of laundry that has been haunting me this week. It really feels like a blue sky day....
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Posted by Gina Alfani at 9:34 AM
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Dealing with conflict

One of the most difficult challenges we face in our quest to be compassionate is dealing with conflict. Those we love most tend to be the ones most likely to engage us in sparring that cuts the deepest.  Why do we allow ourselves to use our harshest words and most acid tone of voice with...
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Posted by Gina Alfani at 11:29 PM
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Love and appreciation

We don’t know what we’ve gotUntil we lose itBut it’s also trueThat we don’t know what we’vebeen missing until it arrives Don’t let a day go by without telling that special person in your life you love them with all your heart because they could be suddenly gone I’m a widow who speaks from experience and...
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Posted by Gina Alfani at 1:22 PM
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Love . . . ageless and evergreen

“Like a rose under the April snow I was always certain love would grow Love . . . ageless and evergreen Seldom seen by two” lyrics from the song Evergreen - Barbra Streisand Many people live and die a full life, never feeling the emotions of this song. As I listened to this song today,...
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Posted by Gina Alfani at 1:09 PM
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Unconditional love

Unconditional love is a concept that means showing love towards someone regardless of his or her actions or beliefs. It is a concept comparable to true love, a term which is more frequently used to describe love between lovers. By contrast unconditional love is frequently used to describe love...
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Posted by Gina Alfani at 8:04 PM
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Love yourself first

My romantic experiences of the past couple of years have taught me the valuable lesson of loving yourself first.  Desire alone can make you crazy and a shell of a person. Even in my wonderful married relationship . . . I was lost in my status as part of a couple, not an individual whose...
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Posted by Gina Alfani at 5:06 PM
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Express love

When I finally found that man who loved me unconditionally and realized that we could share a lifetime together in peace, love and happiness, I had no problem telling him how much I loved him. My heart had been broken waiting and waiting for the one who never came back from the military and...
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Posted by Gina Alfani at 5:02 PM
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