Often times in life we want for someone -anyone - to tell us that we are completely, totally amazing. The problem with this is that when we are needful of someone else's compliment, we do not realize that we are already amazing just as we are.
We are all part of God
Yeah, I know, not everyone believes that God is real, but God IS real, and I can prove it. When you are finished reading this, go outside and look at the tree that is nearest to you. Look up at its branches, and even if there are no leaves, think about the fact that in a few weeks there will be leaves, lots of them, and birds who will call that tree and those branches and those leaves home, even though only temporarily.
Then, take a walk through your neighborhood, or your local grocery store, the mall- anywhere where there is human life, and there before you will be evidence of a loving, giving and caring Creator. The gender of said Creator does not matter. What matters is that you and I and every single person on this planet knows or at least should know that we are all a piece of God, all of us. (Yes, even Charlie Sheen.)
Being part of God means that we are perfect as we are, even with our imperfections
I have had the same problem with people my whole life. Folks like me well enough, but they want me to change. They want me to not be outrageous, not be mouthy all the time, not get angry (and I am GOOD at getting angry, lemme tell you what!), not be my truest and highest self, but in their discomfort with my ways, they have not bothered even to think that maybe the reason that they see the perceived faults in me, they are also recognizing my faults because they, too, have the same damned faults.
That sucks ass. It sucks because we never bother to see the thing that we are, even though we see the thing that we are in others. Go Figure!
It took me a long time - a VERY long time - to learn NOT to judge people, but to, instead, become a quiet and reverent observer. It is better to observe, because observation makes us aware of the things that we both are and are not. I am not stupid, neither do I lack common sense, and no way do I cheat. I will not lie to you and tell you that I have always told my old man how much money I have spent or that I spent any at all. What I will say is that even though I may have done some pretty crappy things in my life, the fact remains still that I am who I am, like it or not, love me, hate me, ignore me - it doesn't matter. It took me just as long to accept me for who I am, never minding that there are people on the planet who will not ever accept me fully as I am, as it did for me to learn not to judge others.
It is a feat that is not for the faint of heart, and yes, though you will become stronger spiritually, you will also go through all those emotions and all those feelings and everything that you are trying to avoid just so that you will not have to suffer the slings and the arrows of pointing out in others what does not sit right with us. We LOVE to point out other peoples' "wrongs," and we do it because we feel lousy about who we are, what we are doing and who we are becoming. One more thing that we never cop to is the fact that everything we are, that we have, that we do, all of it is a direct result of our own thoughts and our own actions, meaning that very truly, we become what we think about.
So, what are YOU thinking about?
Your pink hair, your pointed and spiked boots don't make you who you are
Who you are is a uniquely special Creation. You have purpose in this life, even though you might think otherwise. You have a mission to fulfill here on this earth and in this lifetime, and no matter who tells you what they think of your manner of dress, the way that you think, or the name by which you address the Almighty, none of it matters because God has a plan for you, for your life and dammit you should be thrilled to pieces about it.
You know what you are good at, and believe me, baby, when I tell you that that one thing that you do remarkably well is the one thing that you were meant to be here to do, because that one thing is the thing that you love, and our job here is to impart Love onto the world.
Love begins with each of us.
It a simple concept - love others as you would want to be loved, and folks, we are doing a miserable job at it. It is our mission here on planet Earth to be healers, and we are brought here to this life to love one another so that we may heal and be healed. It sounds so simple because it is simple. It is not hard to love. It is harder on us physically to be angry, to carry hatred, to long for what we had and for what used to be. I know this. I live with someone who longs for the days of the private golf course, of 5 cars from which to choose to drive on any given day of the week, but mostly, for the power that this person had with a very limited amount of people.It is easy to be a big fish in a small pond if you are the one who is the biggest fish. Yet, when it comes time for us to be released back into the wild, we find that we are not the biggest fish anymore and that which was once comfortably small and compartmentalized has suddenly, and much to our own chagrin, the deepest, darkest, coldest part of the ocean.
This is the point at which we find out what we are really made of. It is the part where we know, for sure, if we have been living honestly with who we really are or if we are pining for who we thought we were in another time of our lives. It is also at this point that we start to see who we are, and for the most part, we do not like our selves, and that is really very sad.
There was a time in my life, and it seems like it was yesterday - but only because the pain is still very much there, very real and hurts a lot - when I was all about what I had, how much money was in my pocket, and who my friends were. When we lost our golf course home, I was a mixed bag of emotions- rage and shame and guilt, but I was not less hope, not less Love, not less the idea that I am me, even without all those great things. I learned over time that the house is just a building, that the cars would have broken down eventually, and that life on the golf course was great, but it was not forever. We want the fun to last forever and ever, and we set ourselves up for a great fall if we choose to believe that we get to keep what it is that we want to keep. The Universe knows when it is that we have become so full of ourselves that we are forced into balance.
I was forced in to balance, and though it has been a hard time for me, it was, every bit of it, worth it all. The tears, the arguing, the sickness that he will not recover from - every single piece of it was worth it because without those losses I would not have gained something that I needed that is integral to who I have become.
Truly Me.
Trust that God has a purpose for you, a plan, and that no matter what your goals are, without Love, everything is for nothing, and you will continue to seek things outside of your self when in fact it is your very self that you should be not only seeking, but also, Loving. We are here to Love others, to heal the earth and to be of good service to our earthly family, all of it.
Go thee out into the wilderness and heal the sickness of souls...we need you, and we are waiting.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!
...Roxanne...
So, what are YOU thinking about?
Your pink hair, your pointed and spiked boots don't make you who you are
Who you are is a uniquely special Creation. You have purpose in this life, even though you might think otherwise. You have a mission to fulfill here on this earth and in this lifetime, and no matter who tells you what they think of your manner of dress, the way that you think, or the name by which you address the Almighty, none of it matters because God has a plan for you, for your life and dammit you should be thrilled to pieces about it.
You know what you are good at, and believe me, baby, when I tell you that that one thing that you do remarkably well is the one thing that you were meant to be here to do, because that one thing is the thing that you love, and our job here is to impart Love onto the world.
Love begins with each of us.
It a simple concept - love others as you would want to be loved, and folks, we are doing a miserable job at it. It is our mission here on planet Earth to be healers, and we are brought here to this life to love one another so that we may heal and be healed. It sounds so simple because it is simple. It is not hard to love. It is harder on us physically to be angry, to carry hatred, to long for what we had and for what used to be. I know this. I live with someone who longs for the days of the private golf course, of 5 cars from which to choose to drive on any given day of the week, but mostly, for the power that this person had with a very limited amount of people.It is easy to be a big fish in a small pond if you are the one who is the biggest fish. Yet, when it comes time for us to be released back into the wild, we find that we are not the biggest fish anymore and that which was once comfortably small and compartmentalized has suddenly, and much to our own chagrin, the deepest, darkest, coldest part of the ocean.
This is the point at which we find out what we are really made of. It is the part where we know, for sure, if we have been living honestly with who we really are or if we are pining for who we thought we were in another time of our lives. It is also at this point that we start to see who we are, and for the most part, we do not like our selves, and that is really very sad.
There was a time in my life, and it seems like it was yesterday - but only because the pain is still very much there, very real and hurts a lot - when I was all about what I had, how much money was in my pocket, and who my friends were. When we lost our golf course home, I was a mixed bag of emotions- rage and shame and guilt, but I was not less hope, not less Love, not less the idea that I am me, even without all those great things. I learned over time that the house is just a building, that the cars would have broken down eventually, and that life on the golf course was great, but it was not forever. We want the fun to last forever and ever, and we set ourselves up for a great fall if we choose to believe that we get to keep what it is that we want to keep. The Universe knows when it is that we have become so full of ourselves that we are forced into balance.
I was forced in to balance, and though it has been a hard time for me, it was, every bit of it, worth it all. The tears, the arguing, the sickness that he will not recover from - every single piece of it was worth it because without those losses I would not have gained something that I needed that is integral to who I have become.
Truly Me.
Trust that God has a purpose for you, a plan, and that no matter what your goals are, without Love, everything is for nothing, and you will continue to seek things outside of your self when in fact it is your very self that you should be not only seeking, but also, Loving. We are here to Love others, to heal the earth and to be of good service to our earthly family, all of it.
Go thee out into the wilderness and heal the sickness of souls...we need you, and we are waiting.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!
...Roxanne...
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