I love this truth. I am guilty sometimes in my more vulnerable moments, owning and holding on to emotions so deep they wound my soul. The truth is that they are not ours to own. We need to recognize, process and release. Who we are is at our core, we need to embrace that Light. Emotions serve us well to heal when we need them but remember to release them often.
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This passed me by today and it hit hard. You can find me often sharing about when a person has an issue with you to look at their pointed fingers. The others are pointed back at themselves. Often it is their own issue that is being put on someone else. At the same time, when something really hits home to me, I have to wonder what is behind it that has me so upset? What is trying to be revealed in an unhealed wound from the journey I have already walked. So I leave you this evening with these simple thoughts and challenge you to consider them.
And good morning to you too! If this isn't one to take in today...I can be heard often saying every breath you take is a privilege not a right. The path in front of us is ours, it was given to us. While we can't always control every aspect that comes into our life, molds the path and directs us to who we are today, we do have an obligation to show up. I do not like this hard truth. Why? Because every day I wake up I am reminded that I need to keep using the life I have been dealt to better myself and the world around me. It is hard. Some days, it really pains me. But I don't think I have ever walked away from one retreat, one speaking engagement or one event regretting putting myself out there. Putting my voice and words out there is hard most days, but I have an obligation to others since I have the gift of still living this life despite all odds. So, what is your hard truth today?
Are you helpful?
I think anyone's first instinct is going to jump on this answer with a resounding 'of course' without real reflection. We all want to think that we are helpful when someone needs something from us. We like to believe that we are always kind, caring individuals. Well, I will call out myself first in saying at times I put myself before someone else. This isn't a horrible thing to do at times. It is self-preservation. But, if you were to look at your life when someone came to you and you declined, were you really not available? There have been times in my day to day as a single mom that I needed the smallest of tasks done and asked for help just being overwhelmed shuffling two teenagers around. No one was there to step up. It is vulnerable to ask for help and it is even more humbling to admit we can't do it all alone. Being helpful does not have to mean being grand. It could be helping someone with their groceries and taking their cart back for them. It could be noticing someone struggling with their little kids in the grocery and just offering a helpful hand. It is simple. So, walking through your day, take notice. How can you be helpful to someone around you? Your act of kindness and awakening could be the greatest Light in someone else's day. I have said this repeatedly, say it. When we are out and about, I practice this incredible human need. What have I learned? It can change a person's day, week, month and most especially mind. As I lived inside my head in the depts of my eating disorder years ago, the negative voice in my head was very real. It battled every thought, every moment of the day and often won. A kind word, compliment, a hello or wish for a good day could change someone's entire thought process and entire day. It takes so little of you and yet is priceless to another.
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