You are not responsible for the world’s pain and it is NOT your job to fix everyone around you. You can share your talents and resources. Generously give your time and attention. But you cannot pour a magical tonic on the wounds of every person walking on this planet. It is not your job. Today, recognize that you cannot fix anyone and fixing other people can easily become a destructive self-identity. And in that unhealthy version of care giving, your understanding of love may have become warped. Love may look like a relentless string of sacrifice. Today, recognize that sometimes, love calls on us to invest our energy and time in tending to someone else’s pain. But not 100 percent of the time. And not with the nurturing going down a one-way streets, pouring out to the same person, over and over again. Today, if you see that pattern in any of your relationships, consider what it would take to expand your definition of what it means to nurture, to love, to care for. A healthy relationship not only nourishes the needs of others, but also nourishes your own. Today, give your love freely and deeply. And trust that even if you’re not there to ‘fix’ them, everyone will be just fine.

Just for today, I know that I cannot learn other people's lessons for them. They must do their own work and they will do it when they are ready. I have come to this planet to learn to love myself and to share that love with others. I accept others exactly as they are and I am free to just be me. Everything is working out for everyone's highest good. And so it is