dailydatewithgod

When looking at the whole of a human being there are many parts involved in the completion of the whole.  Who we are is not just our words, our bodies, our sounds, our thoughts, our actions, our intentions, or our choices.  We are the rare combination of all those things, each of their various attributes, and more.  When we find ourselves inclined to judge ourselves or others, we might want to stop and ask which attributes are in judgment?  If we have a positive attribute coming from our heart’s intention but a negative attribute of action, which one do we say is the truth of who we are?  Maybe it is based on the circumstance.  Maybe the attributes of our decisions are based on false information or a closed heart.  Maybe the attributes of success that we show in our business are not the same attributes we can use to apply to our most intimate relationships.  Maybe we are attributing an invalid meaning to a particular attribute because the context has changed. If that is the case, which attributes are good and which are bad?  Is that even the right question?  Perhaps it is less about the judgments of good and bad and more about which attributes are working towards our growth in love.  We have all experienced times when living from a negative attribute culminated in the development of a positive attribute.  To what do we attribute the change? Did the change come from the movement of our hearts or our minds or both?  Did the change come from the intervention of another human being or from coming face to face with the truth of who we are?  With all the different attributes involved in the movement of life, it is hard to know to what do we attribute the movement.  Coming from the premise of what is working versus what attributes are not working leaves more space for all those attributes to emerge and be changed or adjusted to fuel our growth.  We will never have all the perfect attributes and we will never be able to always attribute good and bad to each one.  We can, however, pay attention to and learn from the attributes working towards our growth in love one moment at a time.