Take Your Flaw and Make it Your Gift
Some might say that one of the things that isn't my best quality is that I am overly sensitive.
I take criticism, (even something that is meant to be helpful) too much to heart.
One day I was feeling down and very disappointed in myself.
I can't write when I'm down.
Now, it's no good to "stew in your own juice" as my mother used to say, so I decided to make it a day of contemplation.
I went down to our family room with my journal.
I carried several books that seemed appropriate for me; Terry Cole Whittaker's What You Think of me is None of My Business, Wayne Dyer's Inspiration, Ernest Holmes' This Thing Called You, and Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks.
I put on meditative music and lit my candle.
As I came across something in my meditation or in one of the books that meant something to me, I made notes in my journal.
Later I reread what I had written.
It felt very good.
Next I put on Louise Hay's DVD You Can Heal Your Life, The Movie.
I watched the whole thing and made notes in my journal as I went.
This took me out of the blues and into a very happy and creative mood.
Another thing that I do that invariably gives me a peaceful feeling is being out in my garden, pulling a weed here and there or planting a beautiful new plant.
When I sit back and look at my garden I feel so peaceful and serene.
It reminds me that life really is so very good.
One thing I wrote in my journal on that day was, "I am a diamond in the rough.
From a completely human standpoint I may be flawed, but the real me, the inner me, the Divine in me is perfection and I feel it, sense it and know it.
" This is also true about you.
Each of us has that Divine spark within us.
So with all my years of training and studying, being a spiritual advisor to other, why then am I having any depression or sadness at all? In Stillness Speaks by Eckart Tolle, he writes "Surrender comes when you no longer ask, "Why is this happening to me? It just is and at this point we move to a higher vibration of being.
" I know this is true because each time I make the effort and take the time for contemplation, I feel the shift that takes me to higher ground.
I asked Spirit, "God, take me to an enlightened place, show me, lead me, take me ...
:" Then there is the time where there comes a release and a knowing that all is well.
I feel comforted, happy and light.
I know I can begin right here and right now to change for the better.
The gateway is open and I choose to step through it and into the light.
Maybe being sensitive isn't such a bad thing after all.
Maybe it's the reason that I am creative.
I write from the deepest part of myself.
I write and it helps me and sometimes it helps other people too.
We can take what at first appears to be a flaw and make it a gift.
Affirmation Today I remember to sing as if no one is listening, dance as if no one is watching, love as if I've never been hurt.
I know that God loves me exactly as I am.
I take criticism, (even something that is meant to be helpful) too much to heart.
One day I was feeling down and very disappointed in myself.
I can't write when I'm down.
Now, it's no good to "stew in your own juice" as my mother used to say, so I decided to make it a day of contemplation.
I went down to our family room with my journal.
I carried several books that seemed appropriate for me; Terry Cole Whittaker's What You Think of me is None of My Business, Wayne Dyer's Inspiration, Ernest Holmes' This Thing Called You, and Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks.
I put on meditative music and lit my candle.
As I came across something in my meditation or in one of the books that meant something to me, I made notes in my journal.
Later I reread what I had written.
It felt very good.
Next I put on Louise Hay's DVD You Can Heal Your Life, The Movie.
I watched the whole thing and made notes in my journal as I went.
This took me out of the blues and into a very happy and creative mood.
Another thing that I do that invariably gives me a peaceful feeling is being out in my garden, pulling a weed here and there or planting a beautiful new plant.
When I sit back and look at my garden I feel so peaceful and serene.
It reminds me that life really is so very good.
One thing I wrote in my journal on that day was, "I am a diamond in the rough.
From a completely human standpoint I may be flawed, but the real me, the inner me, the Divine in me is perfection and I feel it, sense it and know it.
" This is also true about you.
Each of us has that Divine spark within us.
So with all my years of training and studying, being a spiritual advisor to other, why then am I having any depression or sadness at all? In Stillness Speaks by Eckart Tolle, he writes "Surrender comes when you no longer ask, "Why is this happening to me? It just is and at this point we move to a higher vibration of being.
" I know this is true because each time I make the effort and take the time for contemplation, I feel the shift that takes me to higher ground.
I asked Spirit, "God, take me to an enlightened place, show me, lead me, take me ...
:" Then there is the time where there comes a release and a knowing that all is well.
I feel comforted, happy and light.
I know I can begin right here and right now to change for the better.
The gateway is open and I choose to step through it and into the light.
Maybe being sensitive isn't such a bad thing after all.
Maybe it's the reason that I am creative.
I write from the deepest part of myself.
I write and it helps me and sometimes it helps other people too.
We can take what at first appears to be a flaw and make it a gift.
Affirmation Today I remember to sing as if no one is listening, dance as if no one is watching, love as if I've never been hurt.
I know that God loves me exactly as I am.
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