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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.   Thomas Merton If we love, truly love, someone then we will love them for who they are and not who we think they should be.  We will not try to transform the person into our ideas of what they should do, be, look like, etc.  If we find ourselves try to twist someone we say we love into our own image then perhaps we should ask ourselves, "Do we really love them?" and if so, "Why do we love them?"  We need to be resolved to love others well.  Loving well means we let them be themselves as they are letting us be ourselves.  

Let your resolution be his solution.   Unknown Okay.  It's a bit of a cheesy quote to be sure but something about it appeals to me.  And in a twist on the phrase my mind keeps changing it to also read, "let his solution be your resolution."  I think that most of the time that needs to be the truer sentiment.  I need to resolve that God's solutions for the things that come up in my life are best.  And too often I don't hold to that resolution.  Too often I go to him last for solutions rather than go to him first.  So yes, whatever I resolve to accomplish I should leave in his capable hands but more than that my whole life, and all that happens in it, I should be resolved that he has solutions already - ones that I cannot even come up with.   What about you?  Are you resolved to allow God to be the solution to what comes up in your life?