Have you ever wanted to say hello but you didn’t feel ready or presentable?
Have you ever wanted to embrace another’s wow but you didn’t feel able… you kept feeling “I’m not ready now” ?
Sometimes because we’ve been exposed to so many ways that are perhaps a bit unrealistic in the day to day,
we shrink from showing up and saying hello because we think it all has to look so perfect …or we think our now isn’t good enough, you know?
Over the years –and especially now–what has helped me so much is to steady my thinking in this spiritual fact:
I already am an expression of and embody Love
and because of this, any effort I make to show up and say hello is good enough.
(This is a metaphor. Showing up and saying hello can be likened to calling someone walking into a room, spontaneously opening on video live, seeing ourselves as ready and able now in anything that tugs at our heart)…
I would rather trust my motive then fret over what another might say if my showing up doesn’t look to them perfect…
and see ?
as I cherish more what my motive is, it makes the sting of criticism that less significant …
So my heart to yours on this beautiful Sunday,
allow yourself show up by trusting your motive.
And defend for yourself that this motive is what will be seen and felt from the one you are sharing your precious thought /time/presence with.
Then regardless of how they react or what they say …
you will have been true to your heart that day in your own amazing unique way.
I opened my door this morning to find two little apples of love which made me tear up in my eyes.
They’re worth such a bounty to me because they came from a neighbor who has stopped being mean to me.
So cool.
(And such proof of the power of striving to see another’s good even when they have acted cruel to you).
(More on that soon but someone’s bitterness or criticism is just a momentary snapshot of where their thinking is…)
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