Unconditional love sometimes requires boundaries we never even knew we had until we come to that moment when all that we think we know about ourselves disappears into oblivion. Many of us enter into relationship seeking to define our selves and a perceived reality or realities we have created since we birthed into this world. Seeking to define humanity and the Divine within relationship takes courage, sacrifice, patience and surrender. Many have a thought that unconditional love translates into having no boundaries. In my limited experience, the presence of self requires a purification one can only undergo walking through creation in their aloneness. It is within this space, our projections of who we perceive we are and how we perceive our relationships will be quieted. Boundaries are formed many times by reactions and responses to life’s experiences. Those boundaries may indeed be appropriate in that moment, but those reactions and responses become programmed into cellular memory if they have not already arisen from those spaces. For a boundary to grow and emerge without interference from thoughts and emotions, that quiet space, that pause, that pivotal moment for renewed awakening of self creation has to be ignited. And from my experience, that alone time where you come into relationship with yourself is so extremely important. That alone time where you become friends with your inner knowing, with your ego, with your heart, your mind and your spirit. That alone time where you befriend your sense of powerlessness and empowerment. That alone time where you define yourself outside of the constructs you have created, eventually leading to a place where the need to define yourself is not as important as it used to be. And this is because there is a flow of energy between you and God embracing a profound respect for this life you were given. In this space, unconditional love is received as a blessing, and we are each given the opportunity to understand how to share this gift with one another. We are each given the opportunity to understand how to place appropriate boundaries when needed not out of reaction or any other emotion which distracts us from our true nature, but out of Divine Providence. We shift our understanding of relationships from codependency to interdependency, on both the human and spiritual levels. We were taught to continue the illusion of codependency. We were taught to continue the illusion of unworthiness. We were taught to continue the illusion of self sacrifice to the extent that we no longer remember the wholeness and sanctity in which sacrifice has an ENTIRELY different meaning. We were born to create interdependent relationships here on earth as are the relationships created in the heavens. I have a thought that our boundary systems are so wounded from lifetimes of confusion. There is so much separation from the boundaries of the world we live in today. May we be given the strength to discern sacrifice from both a human and spiritual perspective and create a boundary that will enrich the lives of everyone fostering unconditional love as only God would have it.