As I sit here in my special spot, my mind is filled with precious thought.
The enlightening elixir poured down from Heaven and into my chalice made from the purest materials, is encouraging me to drink. After all, why pour drink into a glass without the intent of letting it become you?
I encourage you to fill your cup with what makes you come alive. Drink from it.
I cannot keep up with my thoughts when writing and I am forced to slow, but what I am reminded of right now is that what you write is not always only for your intended audience.
I often look back on past blog posts and am knocked on the head for rememberance.
I also marvel at the imperfection in each post, but I don't change them and some people may wonder why.
I envision this blog as a training ground for things to come.
On a training ground, you may make a mistake, but no matter how hard you may try to perfect that skill mistakes will still be made and you cannot erase them. I don't try to. Instead, I look at my current work and look at my past work and compare. I see improvement and I am even more excited to move on.
When the day comes, I will walk back on the trail and pick up each marker and be satisfied that I left it there to move onto higher plains.
If I hated or even just disliked my imperfections, would I ever give them the nourishment they need to blossom into perfections?
Hate, dislike and discouragement are not synonyms to love, care and nourishment.
Love yourself and others as Christ would love you and others. He was the Ultimate example for how we should treat everyone, yourself included.
Then and only then, will you be able to create the best.
Come alive, my friends.
Dallin Hughes
The most ponderous line: "If I hated or even just disliked my imperfections, would I ever give them the nourishment they need to blossom into perfections?"
ReplyDeleteHmm. I'm going to think on this. I like it. It reminds me tangentially of this thought I've been thinking, ha, about if it is possible to ask for something we want to have changed, without actually getting caught up in any sort of low-vibration emotion.
For example, let's say you go to a swank restaurant and ask for their signature dish, and they bring out stringy vegetables and a lackluster entree. Is is possible to want something better, and ask for it, without attaching oneself to the outcome? While still staying in a place of complete peace and well-being, even if you don't get it?
Your imagery of going back on the trail and picking up the markers is really great. I just listened with the kids to a talk by Neal A. Maxwell on the topic of consecration, and he mentioned something about how letting go of our attachments, our ego, and so forth, along the path, is the only acceptable littering. Reminds me of what you are saying.
My love for others, self, and Christ is enhanced because I know you and love you. To being fully alive...