Good morning!
…and wherever you are, I hope it is a good morning – or afternoon or whatever. Still windy here – but wonderful…
Now then, I have a great quotation – one that always gives me much to think about – but I apologise that I can’t remember where it came from. So… I hope that it’s OK for me to use it here and if anyone knows where it came from, or indeed has any objections, please contact me and I will deal with it here. I think you’ll love it…
‘If there are secrets to happiness, one of them is this: That happiness is not in the elimination of all that is bad and unhealed, but in developing the capacity to bear those parts and find the beauty in them in the process.’
I’ve spent much of my working life with the unhealed, the wounded and those who see themselves as imperfect, though they are worthy, wonderful people. (None of them have been ‘bad’, though form time to time their behaviour may have been – mine too). I see others chase after ‘beauty’ in a never-ending search for perfection while they are already exquisitely beautiful. I’ve seen people turn away from the unwashed and the unclean, the scarred and the traumatised and I wonder where it came from the we do that.
In the lined and leathery face there are years of story and magic; In the scarred there is the courage to still stand and go on; in each of us there is so much unseen breath-taking beauty.
Wherever we turn away from either own own or another’s woundedness in embarrassment, disgust, shame, we give a message of the wounded being less than… we disempower, we judge. Yet it’s only in facing our woundedness – and that of others – with empathy, compassion and’ most of all’ love that we can see the wonder, the magnificence, the amazingly courageous spirit that moves us forward and helps us still take up our essential place in the whole of humankind despite our imperfection. And I truly believe that it’s only by embracing the whole of creation – not just the pretty bits, the glowing face or the whole and perfect body – and indeed including all the scarred landscapes we have created too – that we can find the amazing beauty with which we are surrounded - and then and only then can we be truly happy. May you bear all your imperfections – and those with which you’re faced in others – and find the beauty in them in the process.
So from one flawed human being to another (I hope I’m not talking to the only perfect being on the planet!!!) I acknowledge your beauty – and mine – and wish you happiness and send you love…
Have great day
Talk to you tomorrow…
Brenda
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