Brave Enough To Be Bliss

While she’s married and in her mid-20s now, whenever I hear the James Taylor song Your Smiling Face, I can’t help but smile from ear to ear and feel pure joy like I did back then. I would play that song on the ride home and eventually she learned to sing it along with me. To me there is just such true joy in that song, and it captured how I felt at that time. I wouldn’t have been able to describe it back then, but it was the unbridled joy that comes with feeling free to love someone without hesitation and without condition, and to be able to be completely who you are in front of someone who also loves you.

James Taylor - Your Smiling Face (Lyrics) (youtube.com)

That is a love that I had never known before. Perhaps people had tried, but I hadn’t been open enough to receive that kind of love or felt safe enough to give it. But in those early years, I knew she couldn’t know any better than to love me, so I was free to sing in the car, to dance in the kitchen, to make silly faces, to read story books using funny voices and still feel loved by her, and most of all to give her all the love I had stored up in my heart from being too scared before to give it to anyone else. While I doubted most of everything I said and did in life and with her, I was confident I would do everything possible to make sure she knew she was loved. That was in line with my reason for living and eventually she became my only reason for living. “Until one becomes a mother, no one can ever tell you what it feels like to love someone so deeply and profoundly that you will rejoice when they rejoice, ache when they ache, feel what they feel even without ever speaking a word.” Jennifer Guinn Dr. Andy Yarborough | Licensed Clinical Psychologist | Watch then read the caption. Nurturing emotional health in your child starts with their healthy attachment to you. So how do you foster a… | Instagram ▪ Path of Least Regret — Ginger Rothhaas ▪ What Is The Negativity Bias and How Can it be Overcome? (positivepsychology.com) ▪ notice miracles - Ginger Rothhaas ▪ (2)Dumb things we say to Moms #mom #momlife #stayathome #sahm #wivesoftik... | momsoftiktok | TikTok ▪ (2)Advice for Dads #relationship #husbandwife #marriage #dad #sahm #empat... | dad | TikTok ▪ kindaKIND ®️ | So beautiful. @kindakindco | Instagram ▪ Bright News From All Over | Her laughter is so cute Daily heartwarming news @brightworldsnews Credit: @blavity . . . . #bright #positiveenergy #positivity… | Instagram ▪ All Things Good | “This is Sharon, my mother -in- law. She taught me it’s important work to see someone for who they are and not what you expect. When I… | Instagram ▪ Lori Madison | So beautiful. I’m not crying, you’re crying Posted @withrepost • @the_skindeep Going through pregnancy… For the full video search… | Instagram ▪ Carmen Beese | Gratitude and joy have an incredible power to combat feelings of scarcity and inadequacy. According to Brené Brown, when we immerse… | Instagram Resources ▪ The Audible Original "Break Shot" by James Taylor - LISTEN NOW (youtube.com) ▪

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