My relationship with Power.

 I have had a very difficult relationship with power. Mainly, because my experience with power was of domination, control and abuse. It has been difficult to be able to trust power as something good. I was also afraid of it, my own power, and lacked the confidence to believe in it.

Slowly, throughout the years, with a lot of work, my relationship is getting better, although I still struggle with it. 

I read something helpful, about power, yesterday:

"Power, in & of itself, is not bad. It simply needs to be redefined as something more than domination. If the Holy Spirit is power, then power has to be good, loving & empowering, not something that is the result of ambition or greed. [...] if we don't name the good meaning of power, we will be content with the bad, or we will avoid claiming our own powerful vocations. What is needed, Martin Luther King Jr. writes, "is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and that love without power is sentimental and anemic.""

This part - "that love without power is sentimental and anemic."

"Martin Luther King Jr. defined power simply as "the ability to achieve purpose. He wrote, "It is the strength required to bring about social, political or economic changes. In this sense, power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love & justice."

Here,

Paty ♥