What a
Mess
“Have
God make a message out of your mess.”
Joyce
Meyer
One down-side to raising
one's consciousness is seeing more than you want to see about
yourself and others. Instead of being oblivious to your own faults,
and those of others, they sit there looking you straight in the eyes
and blinking like some fairy tale frog. They say, “Go ahead; kiss me
and I'll become a prince.” but you know better. “Not no, but hell
no!” you say. Well, maybe that's not the best reaction. Maybe we
should wrestle with it a bit first. Maybe kissing the frog really is
the correct response.
Let me just say, I've
made the choice to sprint at top speed away from the frog many times
in my life, and I can testify to you that he's hard to outrun.
Finding fault with self and others can bring you down, and then stand
on you chest so you can't get up. I happen to be an expert in this
area. I've been pinned down in the pits on any number of occasions.
Believe me when I say, it's best to go ahead and kiss that ugly
thing.
Embracing the totality of
your personality doesn't mean handing the reins of your life over to,
and then being swallowed up by, the worst in you. It means
recognizing the frog in you, while also seeing your very brightest
light. Then, allowing those two parts of you to live together in
peace. You/I will always have the choice of which part we call upon
in any given situation, because we need them both. Integration allows
them to become equal partners.
Transformation from frog
to prince is never complete—there will always be a little green
around our gills, and a few spines on our backs. But God can make a
near-perfect purse out of the proverbial pig's ear. We just have to
hand over our mess—all of it—and allow Spirit to take the lead.
Here is a daily
affirmation that Joyce Meyer recommends: “The healing power of
God is working in me right now. Everyday I get better and better in
every way.”
In the Spirit,
Jane
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