what if...there were no imperfection?
How much focus there has been on imperfection? How much attention have you put on imperfection? You have perhaps specialized in it. Imperfection may be the subject of your every thought, your imperfection, others' imperfection, the imperfection of the world! What an expert you have become!
What would happen if you genuinely changed your focus?
Light would happen!
Love would happen!
Peace would happen!
What if you welcomed yourself and others to your heart? What if you saw without hindsight? What if you were okay? What if you accepted yourself and blessed yourself? Then it would be easier to accept and bless others, and so you would be twice blessed.
It is easy to find fault. There is no lack of fault to find in the relative world. Yet, why would you be interested in fault? How does fault-finding make you feel?
There is always a down-side. When people are this, they are not that. Why do people have to be either this or that? What does your mind say?
Have a heart, beloveds. Have a heart for yourself and see how others bloom.
Look on life as you look at a garden. Sure, there may be weeds. Sure, the soil may be dry. Well, then, water the garden. Nourish it. Nourish it with your thoughts about it. What are you looking at, and why are you?
Take our children. They are everything they are, and they are not what they are not. Love them, and what will they be? What can they not be, nourished by your love.
Criticism is a dime a dozen. Everyone is a champion at it. Be a champion at something else. Become a cheerleader.
Most of all, everyone does not have to be like you. You are not so pleased with yourself either. We could safely say that you are hard to please. What if you were easy to please, what then?
What if everything is okay the way it is? What if you do not have to fix anything? What if you do not have to fix the world! When you do not feel compelled to fix the world, you are admirably letting go of control. Let go of the need for control. Life has a mind of its own. You can let life be.
Specialize in serving life. You are not to turn your nose up at it. You are to welcome it. Become your own best booster, and you will lift the world. You are indeed serving the world and you are serving the world to all others. What else is there for you to do?
You may think that all you do is to go to work or clean the house or pick up after others and yourself. And, yet, these are not your purpose. You have a much higher purpose.
It is incumbent upon you to serve the world. With every breath you take, you are serving the world. Serve it well. Serve it majestically. And serve the world to yourself with all credit to the world and yourself and to God. Serve in the spirit of giving. If everyone served, there would be no need of taking or keeping or keeping anything away from you.
people get so caught up in making others see imperfections yet for get that we all are imperfect in one way or the other. We can use every product out there to lose weight, dress well and feel good about ourselves, but in the end, no amount of money can do what we already can do...that is...make someone feel good just by saying a word, smiling at them or anything that builds them up. I know of what I speak. After so many years of living in hell, I finally see daylight and I want to share that--and what a difference it makes! Be a person of love, just as Rev. Diane has been saying, and spread that love around! Why focus on the negative when there is so much positive to be had? just sayin'.........
ReplyDeletethank you for this. One truly can appreciate beauty after one sees the crap...and I have lived that life. (rob, my good man, if you see this...I have taken your advice...some of it...and have cut way back on my drinkin'. It ain't fair to my son...or to me. I'll still have that beer, but the hard stuff.....??? how much is my son worth? More than Jack, Jim, Bud and Miller...plus Jose combined! thanks!)
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