Cal is looking forward with joy and apprehension.
When I start valuing “things” more than people, and I am talking about any people, I have not cheapened their lives so much as I have cheapened mine.
mycapaciousbottega is changing her reality, one goal at a time.
That really got straight to the heart of me…
and take it to heart.
I can see this becoming the “topic of the week” for me. Thanks for the food for thought.
Cal is looking forward with joy and apprehension.
How come I can’t live it? Yesterday I was visiting in the hospital and while in the waiting room a man set next to me who smelled very bad, like old dog urine. I just wanted him to go away, I classified him in my mind as one of the “disposable people.” Last night at a AA meeting that I attend there was a young man (21 years old or so) who came in. He was a drug addict, and had brain damage from a car accident. He should not have been there, the meeting is for drunks, not drug addicts; and his brain injury made it difficult for him to control his emotions in the best of times. I felt sorry for him, but I really just wanted him to go away and leave me alone. I can not be everything to everyone, but I need to always ask myself, “What would Jesus do?”
...and can you help are two different things.
the choice to help, for me, doesn’t have anything to do with me making a judgement as to whether or not they are worthy i.e. beyond help. rather my choice has everything to do with “am i capable of helping” in that moment.
as for loving or not, i would ask “where do you feel love starts?”
to meet another eye-to-eye and regardless of economic, social, or even racial intrusions to see that you are in that moment engaged with a beautiful soul is where the miracle of healing comes from…and yes, I feel that is a very compassionate experience.
a compassionate experience with yourself and the other individual.
it matters not how choose to see another or whether or not they exist they still impact you and you them.
the tradjedy is to see self as detached from the rest…we are all connected and have an innate bond that is only visible through love.
fear is what questions and doubts. love surrenders and is kind.
each of us DESERVE LOVE and what i feel the majority miss is that love starts with self.
it takes courage and compassion to look at self and to acknowledge the imperfection as perfection and then to see that “I AM WHOLE” as i am.
when you recognize this within yourself you will then see it in others and they will know it as you share it “WITHOUT A SINGLE WORD!”
so, is it a struggle for you, or is it that you struggle with yourself?
listen to the words of the song that plays on this video: Hugs
The song is by the Black Eyed Peas, where is the love, enjoy and listen.
with love,
james
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