A story is just a story. You can read, watch or live it. You can also choose to put the book down, walk out of the theater or change your perspective. The choice is yours. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/just-a/

God said:

Get over your old feelings from the past. Don't hold them to you as if they were precious. I speak of old heavy-duty rejection and dejection from childhood that you bring up to the present, feelings that reverberate within you now, a feeling that you won't be liked, or won't be liked for long, perhaps belief in others' seeming view that you are inadequate and unloved, and that you may hold to you as if you do well to hug these errant impressions.

You have had love, dear ones, yet great love in your childhood was not as prevalent as We would wish. Insecurity came from one place or another, yet not from everywhere. You accrued a belief that you were not acceptable. These feelings were not useful to you then, and they are worthless to you now. Let go of them now. Those who gave you those impressions cannot let go of your feelings about yourself now.

You are My child, and I love you. What other people thought about you once upon a time had nothing to do with you. Nothing. The feelings you engendered from those times were unjust and unwarranted. You were judged and judged falsely. You took these false judgments as photos of you. You never forgot these photos. The pictures taken entered your blood stream, your cells, your heart, when, all the while, they were another's errors of understanding.

You were and are My child, and you were and are to be loved.

At the very least, do it for Me and behold yourself with love.

What you feel is best for you may not be best for those around you.  If you find yourself constantly forcing your opinions, thoughts and actions on others because ‘you know what’s best’, it may be time to rethink your stance.
You are each given free will and that is something that can never be taken away.  Allow the people who surround you the same respect you ask for, let them make their own mistakes, create their own experiences and collect their own memories.  Even though it may be challenging to sit by and watch, it will show a much greater amount of love and caring than anything else.  Guide……. support……. love unconditionally.  Controlling is for those who feel no control in their own lives.  Tend to your own garden and let others do the same. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/tend-your-own-garden/