Letter to My Little: Love + Compassion

Dear Diana,

Someday, something is going to happen that will cause feelings of bitterness to arise in your heart. It will be something small - someone else got the last donut at your school's fundraiser or you didn't get the part of Snow White for the biggest play of the year - but it will feel giant to you. These feelings are commonplace and nothing extraordinary - but honey? These are so dangerous. Bitterness, even in the smallest doses, steals the joy away from your heart a tiny bit at a time, until one day you might wake up and feel that there is nothing left to be happy about.

What do I do, you ask? How can I avoid these feelings of irritation for others who have it better or don't appreciate what they got? Compassion, my sweet girl. Compassion leads to love. And trust me when I say this: love is what will carry you through the world on the wings of gentleness and a warm heart. I promise you that with love and compassion in your heart, the world will always be a fantastic place, because every trial that you encounter will be so much easier to overcome.

Moving past the rejections and the heartache and the heartbreak will be much less difficult with a little bit of love and compassion. Please listen to what I'm saying, Diana. Love never fails. I hope that 1 Corinthians 13 is a lamp unto your feet forever, and that you show each and every person you encounter the SAME love and all that compassion that you have in your giant heart. You're amazing. Keep being you, daughter.
I love you.

xoxo Mama

You can read Raewyn's Letter To My Little here.