Playlist | Love|Balms is... Part I ...My Living Journey Towards Belovedness
Read Love|Balms is…Part I | My Living Journey Towards Belovedness.
India.Arie | This Too Shall Pass
The Beatles | Come Together
bell hooks | All About Love (this is a book, y’all!)
India.Arie | Worthy
Beyoncé | Bigger
Tiwa Savage | Key to the Kingdom
Lizzo | Juice
India.Arie | This Too Shall Pass
Love|Balms is…Part I | “I don’t want to return to how I was, how we were. And it’s not that all harm is avoidable, so much as quite a bit of it is, and also signals a lack of conscious intent to and understanding of love.
___________________
The Beatles | Come Together
Love|Balms is…Part I | “…we can choose to fight together with the hope of finding our way towards one another, or to fight against one another for…a sense of our own dominance.”
___________________
bell hooks | All About Love (this is a book, y’all!)
Love|Balms is…Part I | “What do the overwhelming absence of love, evident in the amount of hurt that we have endured and caused, tell us about what is missing or misaligned in how we understand living life?
___________________
India.Arie | Worthy
Love|Balms is…Part I | “That God created each and all of us beloved and to love means we are not to accept and settle for violence, and even mediocre treatment, conditions, relationships, or behavior from or with others. It means that…we are here to Be(loved), and to #LoveOnPurpose.”
___________________
Beyoncé | Bigger
Love|Balms is…Part I | “…if we name any hurt, abuse, even form of mediocrity—against our own selves and against others—the purpose of each and all of them is to drive us away from being and living as our whole and beloved Selves. To make us question if we can be who we know that we are, because this group and this rhetoric claims that this aspect of our identity is less than, or even that we don’t exist…according to them, as if they are God.”
___________________
Tiwa Savage | Key to the Kingdom
Love|Balms is…Part I | “Living as we are created to and innately desire to be is itself liberation. Discovering and living our belovedness—as our full, whole beings—is liberation.”
___________________
Lizzo | Juice
Love|Balms is…Part I | “My focus in life is to take my place, and take my space. Because my greatest gift in this world is to know and live that I am created and God-gifted to be.”
___________________
Love you, BooFaces <3