Puzzles Rock…

If all rocks looked the same…how would we find our way home...

Bertha

Sometimes…when I sit down…I know exactly what I want to write about…something has happened…something is going on…funny or poignant…it just flows out onto the paper…

This morning…not so much…

This morning…I needed inspiration…a jumping off place…so…I dug into my journal…that’s where I write what you aren’t supposed to read…and somehow…you keep sneaking in there…I’ve got to hide that key better…geez…

It was in my journal…that I found Bertha’s quote…

I reflect…

It’s so easy…for me…to feel different…and yet…I know I’m the same…I remember…we talked about it before…we all want the same thing…to be heard…to be understood…to be loved…

I know…I certainly do…and…that’s pretty much my list…

Well…that…and a killer body…and lots of money…and best-seller’s status…and maybe…a house in the mountains…and one on the beach…but…I digress…mostly in jest…

Essentially…we all want the same thing…to be heard…to be understood…to be loved…

We just see it from different perspectives…from unique points of view…and isn’t that the way it should be…not better…not worse…just different…

Puzzle pieces…all different…all unique…all essential…fitting together…to make a bigger picture…

Jane

Although It’s Been Said…Many Times…Many Ways…

Such a simple statement…I don’t know why I’ve fought it so all these years…why I’ve insisted that I am different…less than…more than…perhaps because we…as individuals…struggle to be individuals…

And while it’s true…I am less than many people…less beautiful…less wealthy…less intelligent…less talented…less courageous…less successful…

The opposite is just as true…I am more than many people…more beautiful…more wealthy…more intelligent…more talented…more courageous…more successful…

But…suddenly…I see that these differences unite me to…rather than separate me from others…for the same is true for them as well…it’s pretty much a Universal Truth…

Now…I know…if we really dug…we might find the one who is at the top or the bottom of these heaps…but I wonder…could we ever clearly identify that person…and would it be a constant status…or would it be continuingly changing…

So…somewhere along the line…I forgot…if I’d ever known…that I was both sides of the equation…in my struggle to be an individual…I found it easier to focus on less than…I was…after all…raised with the belief…that pride was a sin…if I acknowledged that I was also more than…wouldn’t that be pride…

Honestly…I’ve always been more uncomfortable accepting compliments than insults…but…I’m getting better at it…no need to insult me today…really…geez…

We talked about this last night…I was a participant in Jenn Givler and Teresa Morrow’s…Busy Person’s Time Out—Get You Back…then Leah sent me a link to a Brene Brown video which is all about living whole heartedly…and then the message from Carolyn this morning…that ended in the quote of the day…

And…although each message was different…they all dovetailed into each other so nicely…that I couldn’t determine where one ended and the other began…

So…I am different…I am unique…I am less than…I am more than…and…so are you…let’s celebrate that…as we all try to accomplish our destinies…we are the gift…(thanks for that Jenn)

Jane

We travel different paths…but…we all try to accomplish our destiny—Carolyn