Boxes....a word from an old soul

"We are meant to get messy, make mistakes, 

and not be judged to death because of them. 

Boxes are for hiding this away........."**

pretending that we are perfect, wonderful, gracious, kind.....pile up all the positive adjectives you can imagine and they only begin the scratch the surface of the hard shell we put around ourselves.....

the words that pretend that we are not who we are
you know, the people who 'get messy, make mistakes....'

and because we are so busy protecting ourselves from our own truth, 
we build boxes.....with labels.....that reject and demean and ridicule others.

Because if I keep you busy judging others, you'll have little time to judge me.

This would all go away if we learned two things
    first, to accept ourselves
    second, that all the others are wonderfully flawed just as we are.

If we learn to love ourselves, we have a chance to love all the others......to give them space to figure things out, to learn, to grow, to make mistakes, to seek and give forgiveness.....to engage this challenging life just like every other human being.  Just like we are, messy and mistake prone; somedays even a bit nasty and jealous.  

Yet we have this word from the Divine:  you have been made in the image of God; fearfully and wonderfully made.  You are loved.  These are words you can trust like no others.

***Thank you Kathleen, an old soul at 17, for these words of wisdom and a heart filled with compassion.  How blessed we are to call you friend.

[apologies for the strange print this morning.  blogpost is having a difficult morning.]