Room To Rethink

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✨ Why Are We Taught to “Love Our Enemies”? ✨

We weren’t wrong for asking.
Maybe nobody ever slowed down enough to explain it to us — from a safe place. 🥣

🔍 What We Might Be Noticing

Sometimes we hear words that sound kind — but feel confusing. “Love your enemy” can be one of those. It lands like a puzzle piece from a box we didn’t open. So maybe we can look at it together — gently, curiously — like kids holding a question up to the light.

1️⃣ In Spiritual Spaces

🔔 In some spaces that speak about spirit and peace, we’ve heard this idea before.

It may have been meant as a way to stop cycles — the kind that spin forever when hurt meets more hurt.

Maybe it was someone’s way of saying:

“We don’t have to carry what they gave us.”

2️⃣ In Our Own Minds

🎧 Sometimes, we notice that staying angry takes a lot of space inside. It doesn’t always leave room to think, to breathe, or to dream.

It’s not wrong to be angry. That feeling is honest.

We just might wonder, softly: “What do I want to carry forward — and what might I set down?”

3️⃣ In the World Around Us

🧨 Out in the world, people sometimes use kind-sounding words to make others quiet.

We’ve seen that, haven’t we? “Be nice.” “Stay calm.” “Love anyway.”

Maybe we’re just starting to notice when words are being used to hide something... instead of heal it.

4️⃣ Love Doesn’t Mean Proximity 🥣

We don’t have to know everything all at once.

But maybe something shifts the first time we realize:

“Loving” someone doesn’t mean staying near them. It doesn’t mean they were right. And it doesn’t mean we weren’t hurt.”

Sometimes, it means choosing who we want to be — even when they don’t choose that.

🪷 Maybe the real inheritance isn’t shame — it’s our capacity to ask better questions than the ones we were given
🧃 Maybe “love” doesn’t mean shrinking. Maybe it means becoming real, even if that looks like rage, space, or silence
🛸 We don’t owe anyone closeness — but we do owe ourselves a future that isn’t built on their past

“I don’t need to become what hurt me
just to prove that I’ve healed.” 🎼

Soul-Up™
Because Your Spirit Didn’t Come Here to Settle.

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