This skin

does not fit anyone

but me.

So don't think

you can put it on

and intervene

in my consequences,

or fix me

with your wisdom.

I will try

to do

the same for you.

In this life it is so easy to think we know better than another. I have had to fight the urge to fix or advise when it was not helpful or appropriate. Life is a tough gig, and so is love. We don’t always have the answer, nor do we always have the means to heal. At best we can listen or just be with another. At other times what they need most is to work through their own stuff alone. It is hard to know what is needed, and sometimes we get it wrong. Learning to tread softly in the life and heart of another is a life long lesson. Upon rare occasions what another needs is a heavy step, a shout, and/or a yank to love them. But when the heavy step, the shout and/or the yank, go unrecognized or unheard, we have to take a step back and wait, and hope and pray…and sometimes we have to release. And that is hard.