Dear most precious BB’s and happy Asses!!!!!
I have good news and bad news!! The more you study and try to become more of the human you are called to be, you will have to face things that you know that are you alone to change!! That is both the good news and the bad news because when you see it, you cannot ignore it anymore. Don’t you just hate when you keep coming face to face with the changes that need to happen in this world and you realize it is all up to you?
Tonight, I wanted to write a fancy possibly insightful blog on how critical people need to stop being critical. I wanted to emphasize what a bad idea it is to be a critical person and to even hang with those people. I was thinking smart things like how demoralizing it is when people are critical and how it is sideways energy, and then one more dadgum time I got hit in the spiritual heart with my own words.
So I think most of us have an Achilles heel when it comes to humans and the thing that we are not really compassionate or tolerant of. I will tell you a secret, I have a hard time with people who are bigoted and greedy, or either or. And believe me, if I think you are one of those I have a hard time giving you grace. I caught myself today aggravated about someone who is always wanting the best deal, and in my non-spiritual moment found them to be difficult to deal with. I even got a little riled up over their perceived stinginess!! How dare they always seem to want something for nothing!!!!
So one more time, I will have to make amends for pointing out the speck in my brother’s eye when I have a board in my own. One more time, I am reminded that if I give grace to those that are easy to grace, then it is not grace!!! One more time, I am reminded to concentrate on the energy I want, not the energy I don’t want.
As I thought back tonight on my own shortcomings, I know that I am ONLY responsible for my actions and not the actions of others. I know that as Rumi says, “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop.” We are all here to do what we are created and put here to do, and it is none of my business how another human lives his life. I am only responsible for me!!! Full stop. End of story. No buts about it. Not but – only if…
I think if criticism becomes too ordinary, I forget that I am a full-time job and if I am focusing on the changes that need to be made in me, I will run out of time to point out the faults of my brother or my sister.
I am reminded of that song that I sang as a child and need to be reminded as an adult: “He’s still working on me.”
He’s still working on me
To make me what I need to be
It took him just a week to make the moon and stars
The sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars
How loving and patient He must be
‘Cause He’s still workin’ on me
He’s still working on me
To make me what I need to be
It took him just a week to make the moon and stars
The sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars
How loving and patient He must be
‘Cause He’s still workin’ on me
There really ought to be a sign upon my heart
Don’t judge him yet, there’s an unfinished part
But I’ll be better just according to His plan
Fashioned by the Master’s loving hands
He’s still working on me
To make me what I need to be
It took him just a week to make the moon and stars
The sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars
How loving and patient He must be
‘Cause He’s still workin’ on me
Loving that you love me just as I am and all that I am and I am thankful that if I live long enough I will get better and better at this life stuff!!!! I sure am glad that He is still working on me!!!!
Loving you with ALL of me!!!
Karen
Awesome!