Now, as you are imagining yourself as this mineral deposit…..think of how you may be a big rock that is used to adorn a driveway at someone’s home or as help for a climber to scale a mountain. Or you may be a stone that is used to pave a pathway or even be used for a horrific crime such as ‘killing by stoning’. If you are a pebble, you may end up in an aquarium with brightly colored fishes or on the shore of some exotic destination. As time passes, you may have been ground into the Earth for so long, and you are so covered up with the dirt of life, that you aren’t even visible any longer. Or you may have been polished into a thing of beauty and worn as a piece of priceless jewelry. It matters not how you are being utilized, or in what fashion your time here is being used. Whether it is for adornment or malice or being trampled, or simply enjoying your station in life. Because it turns out that any of the ways you may have been transformed or used, does not change the core of what you are and always were. That is your essence. Your true Spirit will flow through you if you just let it. I have always loved the piece that says, “I am but a hole in the flute that God's breath moves through. Listen to the music.”
When we get too far from our authentic self, we can feel uncomfortable. When we are trying to be something that we are not….we end up struggling and making ourselves miserable. It is far better to realize that we are what we are….and accept that fact, so we can live a satisfied and peaceful life. Just as Popeye says, “I am what I am….and that’s all that I am.”.
Believe me when I say that no one is really paying all that much attention to you anyway! They are so wrapped up in their own little world…that you really don’t make a whit of difference in their life. And while you are trying to be all that and a bag of chips for others….you are just taking away from a peaceful life and mind that you could be enjoying. Pray for the guidance to ‘go with the flow’ of life and to accept what is and who you are, with love and gratefulness. I keep a saying taped at the top of my computer monitor at work. It says, “I am whole and perfect as I was created!” And, by Golly….I am.
We should all try to be kind to ourselves and to others in our perceptions. ‘Judge not lest ye be judged’. Remember that one? And if we must judge….judge as the quote from Saint Vincent de Paul offers us to remember and say often to ourselves; “Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times….and in all circumstances.”
The older you get, the more you realize that it just doesn’t matter what other people think of you. Be yourself and you will find that you are much more ‘attractive’ AND ‘attract-ING’ to other people. And that’s not to mean physical attractiveness…because beauty is only skin deep and real beauty comes from within. Phonies can be spotted a mile away, so be who you are and CHILL OUT. And ‘I hate to be ugly’…..but get over yourself. The term, ‘I hate to be ugly’ is one that I learned while we lived in the Memphis, TN. The people in the Deep South are genteel and do not wish to appear coarse by saying anything unpleasant, so they preempt the nasty comment with a nicety. I always found it funny because with my sarcastic personality….I was often tempted to say “Then don’t be ugly!” But I never did….While in Rome. ((*-^))
So my Peeps, be who you are, say what you mean, don't be a fake or a phony and live and let live. It is really a much easier way to co-exist on this wonderful planet....for as long a time as we are so graciously given to do so. You can do it! Gommy is pulling for ya' Hugs & Mush - Gommy
