One of the more valuable tools that I have learned and continue to practice is in changing the evaluative conversation in my head. As like all of us, I am full of judgments. It is part of the human condition. I am inclined to comparison of myself and other people, cultures, families, or coworkers in all areas of life. Prior to waking up to a more compassionate way of living I was entrenched in the right versus wrong conversation. I would aim to live rightly, but often felt like I was living wrongly or not enough or the best possible. The variations of this conversation are endless. They all stem from the fear of not being enough. Learning to change the conversation from right versus wrong into works or doesn’t work is significant. Does how I am being, thinking, relating, acting function as evidence of who I know myself to be at my core? Do my decisions live out as a function of my role as a child of God? Taking the sting of the judgment isn’t about getting myself off the hook but bringing it down to practicalities. When I recognize making decisions from a place of worry or anxiety does not work to keep my heart open and expanded, I can make adjustments. However, there may be a time when making a decision based on fear that does function for me, for example, when walking alone in a dark alley. The potential for growth and learning the possibilities in the power of love come more readily when I am not in my head about how I am doing it wrong. I can laugh at myself when I see evidence of the dysfunction I am seeing show up in my life.
Be From Function!
on March 9, 2017My prayer for us is the courage to switch the conversation of right versus wrong to a more functional one that is determined by working or not working today.
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