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By Denise Turney
\nLove may never be fully defined. It’s outside the realm of human logic. Those who experience its impact, serving as conduits for love to flow through, generally say the most they can do is feel it. For some, that may come while creating a novel. For others, it might occur while jogging, hiking or white river rafting.<\/p>\n

Our painful pasts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of us know when we’ve been touched by love. We feel joy, peace and care. We may also feel as if everything is okay. Worry, stress, anxiety and concern melt away in the face of love. Knowing this, it’s a marvel that we don’t pursue love more, every second of the day and night.<\/p>\n

Painful past experiences may be a leading reason why more of us don’t pursue, open to love. To truly be open to love, we have to give and<\/i><\/b> receive love. If we’ve been hurt in the past (i.e. relationship breakup, career dream failure or sidestep), we might become convinced that those setbacks will happen every time we go after something we think we lead us to love.<\/p>\n

Awakening to a marvelous way of being<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we find success, we might even feel that we’re not worthy of constant (I’m talking never turning off) love. As Raymond Clarke learns in “Love Pour Over Me,” both of these situations are caused by a lack of forgiveness, also known as an unwillingness to release the past.<\/p>\n

Releasing people from the past is probably the majority of the work that psychologists do, as most, if not all pain, is rooted to a past event. To get and stay unblocked, forgiveness is absolutely necessary. There’s no way around it. All the singing, dancing, money giving and church going in the world won’t remove the need to forgive.<\/p>\n

For Raymond, it’s a lesson that takes years to learn, but later is better than never.<\/p>\n

What event from the past still has you? What’s holding you captive? Let love show you how to let it go. It’s time you awakened and advanced.<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading my blog. To learn what happens to Raymond, Brenda and the other characters in <\/i>Love Pour Over Me<\/i><\/a>, hop over to Amazon.com, B&N.com, <\/i>Ebookit.com<\/i><\/a>, or any other online or offline bookseller and get your copy of Love Pour Over Me<\/span> today. And again I say \u2013 Thank You!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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