Warts and all!

My readings today seem to have continued along the theme of the need for a balanced outlook.

My Al-anon reading talked about the Fourth Step, when one is encouraged to take a fearless moral inventory and how easy it is for many of us to turn this into a list of our faults. This is not the idea. Many of us, beaten down by whatever has occurred in our lives, may find it all too easy to reel off endless lists of faults, and struggle to find even one good thing to say about ourselves...

Reading Matthew chapter 13 it is possible, as suggested by Sacred Space, to read the Parable of the Weeds in the same way. God sees the field as a whole - wheat and weeds - and the "weeds" can actually be the beautiful aspect - think of the poppies in a field of wheat... We need to see ourselves as whole people, knowing that we all have strengths AND weaknesses and we need to work with strengths and weaknesses in ourselves and others to relate as whole human beings - which is how God loves us.

Love yourself as a whole person - warts and all!

Blessings

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Amma Bridget