1-Minute Wednesday No. 181: The Power of True Connection
Design A Life That Really Matters
“Fair warning: this is mostly about love.” ?
These words begin a powerful and authentic thread by Erik Newton on X.?
Erik recently lost his wife, Aubrie, to cancer. It was a tragic loss that has left a hole in his life and the life of their young daughter as well. But in losing Aubrie, Erik gained something, too: incredible insight into love, connection, and what truly matters.
By his own account, he and Aubrie had “an epic love affair.”?
“And yet,” he writes, “we reached a depth of intimacy while Aubrie was on her deathbed that we’d never had access to before. That depth of love wasn’t available to us any earlier for whatever reason, but it is available. I want to make it available to everyone by reminding you it exists.”
“Like anything,” he shares, “sometimes it’s easy, and sometimes it’s so very hard. But it’s always worthwhile.”
In the end, Erik shared two important realizations.?
So many forces in modern life pull us away from and apart from exactly the pinpoint precision of this purpose. But, if we allow them, there are so many relationships and experiences that can pull us back - we must simply remember Erik’s poignant reminder, “It’s mostly about love.”? ?
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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”? – Thomas Merton
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10 个月Just finished reading one of John C. Maxwell's, talked about the same thing, Honesty! When we are honest about how we live and feel, we give our family and friends opportunity to treat us the best way we need to be treated and save them the destruction that comes with them assuming a lot of things about you.