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Hello, Lovelets!

I’m new here—or at least new to participating! I’ve been reading Lizzy’s Letters since the very beginning, but now I’m excited to officially join the Lovelets Community. I can’t wait to dive into all the beautiful Voices of Love by reading your letters and sharing this journey together.

By the way, my 3-year-old daughter, Zahara, already recognizes Lizzy’s voice! Whenever she hears it, she she asks, “Mami, is that Lizzy?” I think she might just be your youngest Lovelet sister.

Thank you, Lizzy, for today’s Letter from Love. As usual, it means a lot to me…! I feel the Love in each of your letters and I feel inspired to leap into this shared space of vulnerability, connection and love by sharing a letter of my own. I wrote it last Friday, and it’s about asking Love for guidance through a painful experience. Here it is:

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Dear Love,

I feel hurt and wounded today. Can you help me through this pain?

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Darling-Love, what hurts you?

You feel hurt by how someone in your extended family—your brother-in-law—spoke about you. His words cut deep, belittling you as a person, dismissing your artistry as a poet, and ridiculing the way your relationship with your child’s father ended. He invalidated you in front of your sister, reducing your life to his perspective.

Darling, I know this hurts.

It hurts even though you understand that his words are a reflection of the battles he wages inside himself. They stem from his own anger and inner struggles. You know that and still it hurts. His judgments feel like sharp arrows being sent to you; like an attack on your worth. I understand. We get it.

But hear me now, Love:

You are not defined by his words or his wounds.

Come closer, my dear. Let us begin to take out the arrows of hurt lodged in your heart.

1. You are a poet—a beautiful one.

Your poetry is not an accident or a mistake. You were created with that gift of weaving light and meaning through words and more than that to see the world with the eyes of a poet. Trust your longing to express and share your poetry that has lived in you for so long. Love your poetry, my darling. Love your life as poetry.

2. Where you are in life is exactly where you need to be.

Sweetheart, you’ve always done your best, and that is more than enough. We could not ask more of you. In fact, my Love, we invite you to stop striving so hard and instead try softer. Your best is not something you must force; it’s already within you.

You can list so much in terms of your worldly accomplishments: academic excellence, scholarships, three simultaneous master’s programs in two countries, a stellar professional record, a diplomatic career,... It is tempting to concentrate on that. And yet, Sweet One, your Soul didn’t come to this earth just for the earth and its worldly success. You’ve felt this, haven’t you? That quiet longing to step back, to pause, to reconnect with the deeper calling of your soul that brought you into human form in the first place. You’ve done that, my Love. And that takes incredible courage.

3. You are guided, always.

Darling-Dear, Precious One, even when it’s hard to trust what cannot be seen, remember that the same divine flow that brought you here is carrying you forward. Life may seem to run contrary to your heart, but what if the world’s “mainstream” is not the true current of life?

Look closer, look deeper: so many people live out of sync with themselves, resisting the natural stream of their soul. That’s why they suffer needlessly, why joy feels so far away.

My dear, continue to be brave and follow the law of your own soul. Like Thoreau and the kindred spirits you’ve always loved, you are seeking out the beat of your own drums. As you continue to tune in, you will find that rhythm grows clearer and steadier, no matter the world’s noise.

Darling Love, follow your soul’s longing. It brought you here. It brought you to this life. Little One, always remember that within you, you carry The Great.

4. Your past relationship was not a failure—it was an act of growth.

Leaving it was an act of love: love for yourself, love for your child, and love for the truth, and even love for the person you left. Relationships are complex, and sometimes the greatest gift we can give is the freedom to walk away.

Remember, Love: you are not defined by a single relationship, nor is your life’s purpose tied to finding “the one.” Your Soul’s calling is far greater. Even those who hurt you—yes, even your brother-in-law—are unwittingly shaping your path, like breadcrumbs leading you closer to your own fulfillment.

Darling Love, how do you feel now?

Can you feel the weight lifting, the space opening in your heart? The sharp arrows of judgment and insult have been softened, transformed. In their place, we’ve poured Love, Courage, and Light.

The wounds have become openings—portals through which your Soul’s light can shine even brighter. So go on, Sweet One. Breathe deeply and live open-heartedly. Trust in this beautiful, mysterious journey called life.

With all Our Love

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Dianna Leigh's avatar

Beautiful moving song and video!!

THANK YOU!!!

I am so sad and confused and weak and empowered and scared and hopeful and grieving and… mostly scared.

I’ve been diagnosed with “metastatic disease“ a.k.a. stage four cancer. I have not been feeling sick! this is very unexpected and very quick! This diagnosis has pulled the rug out from under me and it’s been a very very hard week or so. They want to do a full body scan tomorrow to hopefully see maybe where it started or maybe where it’s spread or maybe that it hasn’t spread. I just want to tell you guys because I got such love and support from you and I could use some! I could really use something comforting. I was supposed to be getting a puppy from my daughter in February. The puppies were just born the day after Thanksgiving, and she shared a lot of video with me of that, absolutely beautiful loving process. I was so overwhelmed and so scared that I won’t even be here in February or less have anything to give to a dog. I don’t know! And I’m trying to be helpful and I’m trying to just let be be meeting trying not to fight all of these thoughts. I’ve never considered myself a fearful or negative person, but the brains gonna do what it does.

Dear love, what can I do to bring beauty to a world that suffering? This. Spend time with me. Write what you think. You haven’t been able to write one word or even read and I understand and I’m not expecting you to be perfect and I’m not expecting you to understand everything , and I’m not expecting you to be happy about it. But you can come to me. And you can remember that you do have something to give! Thank you Lilli for reminding me of that! Even in your fear of weakness to come, you are still love! You are love. And you are light. Don’t hide the light love and take care of yourself except everything that feels right to accept from anyone who offers it. Keep believing in the future and keep living in the present. Diana I think that’s all you can take right now. And that’s OK, you don’t have to prove anything you don’t have to produce anything you really don’t. I sent that eagle in the tree right there for you. You can spread beauty by excepting love. I love you.

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