Promise

I wrote this with my children in mind, but this can be a promise to anyone you love and even those you struggle to love. It can be a promise to your children, friends, spouse, partner and to yourself. It is a promise to do your best. It is not a promise to be perfect. It is a promise to try. It is a commitment to move forward.

I promise to do my best to..

Give you space

Give you silence

Not to try and fix everything for you

Not to provide solutions to everything

I promise to…

Listen

Give empathy

Love you where you are at

Not expect you to be anything other than who you are at the moment

I promise to…

Not impose my beliefs on you

Not expect you to do things like I’ve done them

Understand you are separate from me

I promise to…

Respect you and your boundaries

Respect myself and have my own boundaries

Let you take responsibility for you

Take responsibility for myself

I promise to…

Let you hurt, so you can grow

Let you fail, so you can learn

Let you be disappointed to experience joy

Let you be in a mood

Not expect you to take care of my feelings

I promise to...

Take care of myself

mentally & physically

Not stop growing

Not settle

Be a lifelong learner

I promise to…

To model faith

Hope

Love and

Forgiveness

I promise to…

Always love you!