“The fortress that I’ve painstakingly constructed all these years is fundamentally ruptured … Love is beaming through the cracks. And my Love for everything around me [is beaming right back].” ~ Heather Peroni

We’ve been building fortresses against pain & disappointment all our lives. We’ve been surrounding ourselves with material comforts & “our kind of people” in order to keep ourselves safe from harm.

And yet the very castles that we have built to protect us from pain are the very walls that are keeping us from knowing real Joy. The very stones we have used to keep out enemies at bay are the very boulders that are keeping us from knowing real Companionship.

It takes a lot of guts to tear those walls down … and yet until we do we’ll never really know anything about the glorious Life that awaits us on the other side.

We haven’t been put here to “get rich” or “be successful” or even “find happiness” … We’ve all been give the opportunity to do something courageous with our time. We’ve all been given the chance to make this ride a Meaning-full one.

And it all starts when we have the guts to open up and “step outside” — to give to friends in times of lack; to greet strangers as friends; to offer the cruel & the greedy a sorely needed blast of kindness.

LOVE is taking apart your fortress by building a bridge to others …

… got LOVE?

“Without courage, Love is but a whisper on the wind.” ~ anonymous

“Courage is the willingness to be afraid and yet act anyway.” ~ Robert Anthony

“I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that’s 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says ‘go outside.” ~ Dimitry Martin

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