Several days ago I shared my article Embracing the Cracks: A Journey of Healing and Purpose After Traumatic Brain Injury. In the article I shared how our “cracks” can be used to be a blessing.
Today I would like to share one of the “cracks” in my “Pot” and how I owning my power and celebrating my “cracks”. May you also be encouraged to own your power and celebrate your “cracks”.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
I have been struggling
I have been struggling with accepting my limitations, socially. I feel like a fish out of water when I interact with groups of people. As an individual who struggles with perfectionism, I often judge myself. Judge myself after I interact with groups of people.
My heart is in the right place and I do the best I can, but often am critical of myself. I forget to remember that I have deficits and limitations that sometimes seem to get in the way. Get in the way of being able to celebrate time spent with groups of people.
A Spiritual Awakening of Sorts
This morning while writing and processing my recent interactions with different groups, I thought about using the power of attitude. The attitudes from November 23 entry of Melody Beattie’s book and the attitudes from the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi.
As I reflected on my interactions I had a spiritual awakening, surrounding these attitudes.
My Aim, but I do not do this Perfectly
As I interact, I aim to implement the below attitudes when I am with groups of people. I may not implement these attitudes perfectly, but I need to use them as guides. Attitudes to guide me in my interactions.
Reminded to Use these Attitudes in All my Interactions
To offer Clarity. Compassion. Gentleness. Love. Understanding. Comfort. Forgiveness. Faith. To be an instrument of and give peace, love, pardon, faith, hope, light, consolation and joy through my being.
Using the Power of these Attitudes
Open to a New Kind of Power
“Open to a new kind of power—the power of the heart. Clarity. Compassion. Gentleness. Love. Understanding. Comfort. Forgiveness. Faith. Security with acceptance of ourselves, and all our emotions. Trust. Commitment to loving ourselves, and to an open heart. That’s the power we’re seeking. That’s true power, power that lasts, power that creates the life and love we want.” Journey to the Heart — Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing your Soul by Melody Beattie, November 23rd reading.
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
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