“For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.” Eashoa
If we are going to worry let’s use it for good
You would think that if you learnt something you would remember it yet I find that I continually have to go back and hear something again. Thankfully because I brush my teeth regularly I don’t have to google, “ How to brush your teeth.” That said if I did I would probably find there is a better way according to someone. I just remembered I have a hygienist who regularly does that.
So take something like worry why do I find myself regularly looking up the passage in Luke where Eashoa gives his thoughts on the subject. It helps that he speaks of the birds of the air and the lilies of the field as they often act as a reminder of his lesson. “Look,” he says, “at the birds of the air they do not store up food yet they survive.” “Look at the beauty of the flowers in the field created by just being.”
I keep looking though worry keeps appearing in my head. I see myself in the person who constantly needs to be reassured, “ Worry is not going add anything to your life I have told you that yet it is like you have not really heard.” (in fact it may well reduce it but forget that I don’t want to worry you about worry)
When I hear others suffering headaches due to worry I am the great dispenser yet I know it is easy to dispense though the hard bit is applying it to our lives.
There is a role for others as without doubt, we all benefit from encouragement. Yesterday I was having a coffee with a friend. Her hot chocolate was not quite right though she was reluctant to say anything. I said, “Go on up and just say what you think, the woman who served you seemed pleasant.” She did go and the pleasant woman made her another. I could see myself in the other, I need to be encouraged to do some things. I guess it is hearing the voice of another validating us and saying what we think is reasonable. We often doubt our own legitimate feelings.
If I go on about worry I go on about my antidote which is ‘live the moment’. A Course in Miracles (ACIM) speaks of tolerating our weaknesses, almost sympathising with them in order that we don’t berate ourselves with them.
I love that story that is told of Michael Angelo. He said that the sculpture is already present in the stone it is his job to reveal it.
Can you see it? The best of us is already present the task of life is not to worry us about what we should eat or what we should wear but rather it is to reveal us.
Just imagine that, that everything you ever need is already present it is a question of us seeing it and allowing life to reveal it.
Worry does not help reveal it though perhaps we can use it to keep ourselves humble, sympathetic to others and a reminder that we need to look to the birds of the air and flowers of the field.
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