Come Clean
“My
prayer today is to become more aware of my personal actions. What
motivates me to do the things I do and say the things I say to
others? I often dismiss my actions because of stress or anger but
people I meet along the way do not dismiss what I've said or done.
Every action and every word carries a consequence. Every person has
stress and every person has anger. I would not like to be someone's
target and I ask for the grace to become more mindful not to harm
others just because I'm having a bad day.”
Caroline
Myss
There
seems to be a lot of negative energy circling this planet at the
moment. Nations rising up against nations, armies killing one another
on the battlefield, armed citizens shooting down innocent people in
our schools and on our campuses. People are just mad as can be, and
taking it out on one another.
Our
leaders, and would be leaders, spend their waking hours taking
pot-shots at each other; saying things that were unimaginable just a
couple of decades ago. Much of our entertainment involves guns and
violence and speeding cars and explosions. We are a culture in love
with four-letter words of derision and disrespect.
When
it comes to seeing hostility in others, we have laser vision. We can
spot an insult, whether blatant or subtle, in a nano-second. We can
find and place blame on others by the hundreds, and feel righteous
doing it. It's easy to get caught up in the negative rhetoric because
it's contagious. Negative energy is a vortex that few of us can
outrun. Before we know it we're slinging mud and having fun doing
it—there's a lot of adrenaline in hostility.
If
you knew without a doubt that every word and every action has
consequences, would it make you think twice before speaking out of
anger and stress? Would you hold your tongue and allow the energy to
disperse before speaking? Here are some big questions that I must ask
myself, and suggest that you do, too: Am I contributing to the
negativity on planet Earth? Since all things are connected, and all
energy is collective, how can I do my part to diminish the level of
hostility around me? I share Caroline Myss' prayer; I ask for the
grace to become more mindful of the ways my words and deeds may harm
others, and add to the woes of us all.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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