{"id":869,"date":"2010-01-15T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2010\/01\/fresh-morning-a-reminder-for-love.html"},"modified":"2010-01-15T05:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:00:18","slug":"fresh-morning-a-reminder-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/01\/fresh-morning-a-reminder-for-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: A Reminder for Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/sun1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>Letting this one sink in this morning. So simple, and yet&#8230; But so essential and what we want most for ourselves, right?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"body\">The beginning of love is to let those we love be<br \/>\nperfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image.<br \/>\nOtherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.<\/span>&#8221; &#8212; Thomas Merton<\/p>\n<p><b><font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/fresh-morning\/\"><b><font color=\"#023d89\">Need more morning inspiration?&nbsp; Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!<\/font><\/b><\/a><br \/><\/font><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letting this one sink in this morning. So simple, and yet&#8230; But so essential and what we want most for ourselves, right? &#8220;The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. 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