Don’t make a mistake! Make plenty.
I remember years ago hearing a preacher say, “This is the day that the Lord has made and the Devil got nothing to do with it.” I believe he was trying to encourage a positive start to the day.
I am have been trying to stay within budget this month as I need to get my finances in order. I thought I was doing well until I noticed £137 had brought me into the red. I called in at the bank they told me O2 had taken it. The bill is usually £15 a month. I phoned them and they informed me that I talked for more that 8 hours and 20 mins on the phone and for every minute after I was being charged 45p. I had talked 4 hours and something over. I was gutted.
I then in need of inspiration found my way to the library and found a book
Jean-Pierre Weill, the author wants to help us live well. I read the story up to the point where he has told us we lived in a well state as children oblivious to what others thought. The shadow came when our creative living became an issue for another. That artistic expression on the corridor wall was bad! We learnt in that moment that we should never make a mistake as to do so would put us out of favour with others. The bubble of childhood was burst, self-consciousness had penetrated and we work for the rest of our lives to return to that state.
The critical voice accompanied with feelings was attempting to beat me up for speaking too long and accruing such a bill. Something within me was urging me to dip it in the alchemical bath and transform it from a negative to a positive. JP was helping me along the way.
Often I look in books for answers in the moment though I heard, “You have the answers within ask yourself.” So I did and here’s what I heard back,
“ Mistakes happen. You got carried away, you didn’t even think about it. You will be ok, the money you will recover. There is no reason it should take away your joy.”
I had just come away from ‘a morning of stillness’ at the Catholic church and here within half an hour what I had been experiencing was being tested. My old friend anxiety wanted to do all the talking though I wanted to be still as in that place life is being maxed.
The creative life says it was a good thing that I was talking on the phone. I needed to be talking with friends over that period. True my imagined car radio show hadn’t helped but we can curtail airtime and caller 3.
JP is through his book trying to encourage us back to our childhood state when we were at home in this world and everyone was our friend.
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