{grow with love: letters} day 12

Hello everyone and welcome to our last March post! Soon we will be starting the April prompts! YAY! March really flew by didn't it?! I am so excited to be getting to my favorite time of year. It felt like it would never come and even though this past week has been cold, I am convinced that Spring is just around the corner! I hope you are all doing very well! It feels like we have been very busy again, but mostly just with the regular family stuff I think. Let's quit the chitter chatter and get down to business shall we?!

You can find Day 11 HERE in case you missed it and I promise to get my GWL directory page updated ASAP so everything is easy to find from here again! Today's prompt is one very special to me. It is something that the hubby and I used to do for each other a lot. It's kind of what got me excited about a Letters edition. I just seem to be able to open up so much easier in writing than vocally. Let's go ahead and read the prompt then we can talk a bit more!

This one is just oh so special. So often we go through our days and our life having a hard time just opening up and praising people. Complimenting them on the things they do well and the things that we love about them. It's so easy to tell someone when you are angry or annoyed, but for some reason (at least for me) it is hard to be willing to open up that piece of yourself and praise someone. I think it's partially the fear of rejection or the fear of it not being reciprocated if that makes sense. Whenever we open up we want the same in turn, don't you think? Well, sometimes we just aren't going to get it. That doesn't mean that that the other person doesn't love us as much or doesn't see our strengths. Maybe they just haven't gotten to the place you are and are capable of opening up in those ways? There are a lot of reasons why someone else could have a hard time praising us in the same ways we praise them. We need to quit relying on another person before we do what we should do and want to do. A very very sweet and dear friend told me once that she was told "that the more mature person speaks up first". Or something along those lines. This is true in so many ways I think! Not just after a fight...but in general. Just take some time this week and write a letter of praise to someone you know and love. Can be anyone! Celebrate the gifts in another person and don't fear the reaction that may (or may not) come!

I unfortunately have not had time to get this one done, but I so hope that I can get it done later this week! Here are some examples from our dear team though!

by Tracie

by Mandi

by Jacq

by Coila

they are all so amazing and so inspiring! I hope they motivate you to get to praising!! Starting next week, Sara and I will be putting the posts on the Plant Your Story blog so they will all be in one place! I will be here regularly with giveaways and with reminders and other fun things so don't disappear on me!!!