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…caregiving of yourself and your others …and the world

to be better gardeners of our ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE….

The Value of Kindness

7/21/2020

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What is the value of human kindness?
Do a ‘random act of kindness’ in this moment, on yourself. Choose now… to see it all with kindness…

Maybe…just maybe you and others are doing the best they can.

Be kind. Let kindness rain down.

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“..Be the ground that drinks up
the rain…”. – Hebrews 6:7

Kindness isn't simple. It changes worlds.

My prayers today are for health and I find myself needing to be kinder to myself.  I am not feeling as well and energetic as I would like. A couple of deaths in my life in the last week have complicated a health issue I am having… and has left me feeling permeable…and depleted.

So I find myself seeking new answers, and to start again…looking at  resources….

Kindness came up for me. Kindness is a resource.  I am remembering how energizing it is…how healing it is ….to give it, for sure, but to…(and this is more challenging) to receive it.

The sweet small steps that heal...

“Bring forth your own joyous world of love, friendship, beauty and plenty… There is within you the God-given intelligence to. Build such a (joyous) world.”.
                    
– Myrtle Fillmore
These kindnesses are sweet small steps that heal me…and I can supercharge the healing by focusing on them…
and dwelling there.

I spoke  a few days ago, about the clarity we get with spiritual vision, i.e. listening for a higher power to gently nudge you (or kick you...) in the right direction.  To see beyond appearances…to the ‘assurance of things unseen’ and I asked a question:

Can I just choose a better, happier moment on which to focus?
So to shift  to some more interesting story—or something more worth doing?

Each moment, we are offered a choice.

In each moment, I see us being offered a choice. How do we see the knuckle heads – out there? Or the inner knuckle heads?  How do we see our own foibles?

We can choose to see it all with kindness….

..Be ground that drinks up the rain… Hebrews 6:7
Let kindness rain. Choose

Resonate at the frequency of Kindness today.
Be your own ‘random act of kindness’


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BEST PRACTICE: the ONE thing

What is the ONE THING that you can do in kindness for yourself today?

     • Make it doable...a sweet small thing 
     • Make it an adjacent possible.
     • Make it yours.

Or use A KNUCKLE HEAD SUPERPOWER.
Maybe it is that ONE THING that you need to forgive yourself about...and let it go.  (Really...quit picking at the wound and let it heal.)


It's not so shameful or scary to forgive yourself when using the word "knucklehead". 

Try it on.

It is a little funny, and lighthearted.  But most importantly it has a collective quality. Hey, we are all knuckleheads at one time or another.  like, join the human club and get over yourself.  We ALL make mistakes. Admit them and stop suffering.

It's not only efficient. It's compassionate.


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THANK YOUS:

1) My thanks to Mary Oliver for her line from THE SUMMER DAY– "my one wild and precious life"
2) MY thanks to  SF unity for the invitation to practice as my highest self.   I invite you to do that today.  We need your voice.   

Blessings….on your day.

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