I can do better AND I am enough. I effort to hold each, in the palm of open hands. Sometimes, I wake up in the middle of the night aware of my clenched fists. I take a moment and release and wonder: Am I fighting with what is, even as I sleep? Perhaps working through what I need to let go of?
I recently heard Ghandi’s grandson talk on nonviolence. He created a distinction for me: violence is not always active. Passive violence is even more prevalent then active, and takes on many different forms, in thought and in word. My heart is heavy with awareness of all the passive violence that stirs in my heart and in my words. I am enough and I CAN do better, the push and pull of my humanness.
Honoring what is. If I/we come from a place that each person is perfect and exactly where they need to be, then controlling and fixing fall away. What is left? Honoring what is. Lilly Tomlin in her book, Search for signs of intelligent life in the universe, writes “I can handle reality in small doses but as a lifestyle it’s much too confining.” Our humanness loves to fight with reality, acceptance is much too easy. As Tomlin also points out, “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it”. I need the “shaking my head” emoji right about now. Riggghhht?
Ponder this for today: Where can you find an ease, a knowing that you are enough and balance that with the tension of where you need to grow, where you need to go?
Joy Cloud, TKS
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