Redemption
“People,
even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and
redeemed. Never throw anyone out.”
Audrey
Hepburn
I get
so tired of myself sometimes. Being an intuitive-thinking-judging type (on the
Myers-Briggs type indicator), my mind is constantly assessing both people and
situations. Even in the grocery store, I people-watch and evaluate. It’s
exhausting. Because judging is my strength, I tend to be logical and “sensible.”
And sometimes emotional people get an eye-roll or worse from me. Especially if
the emotional person is me.
What I
am learning in my dotage is that the universe has its own way of balancing
things—that all people, all personality types bring something to the table.
There is no good or bad type—there’s just us. Just all of us trying to make it
through these very rough times, trying to figure out what comes next and how to
navigate all the changes. If you bring your strengths and I bring mine, there
is a better chance that we’ll get to the end intact. If we fight each other and
denigrate each other there’s every possibility that we won’t.
There
has never been a better time for core ego strengths. Feeling confident in yourself,
and comfortable in your own skin, no matter what is happening around you, goes
a long way toward navigating the white water of life. But we’re in unknown
territory—pioneers in the twenty-first century—trying to figure out how to make
the best of life even in the face of pandemic, shortages and so-called scarcity.
Most of the world would not recognize scarcity in the American way of life,
since it is how they live all the time, but we see it in all those container
ships docked outside the ports for weeks. No presents for Christmas, you say!
Empty shelves in my favorite store! What!!
And
then, we look around and notice all we have that we never use, all the clothes
in our closet that we never wear, all the food that gets dumped in the trash.
How blessed we are, how abundant our lives. We could be rejoicing, slapping one
another on the back and saying, “I delight in you!”
You are me and I am you.
We may have different personalities, but we are the same. You bring your strengths
and I’ll bring mine and together we will restore, renew, revive, reclaim, and redeem
each other and our world. Why not! Let’s do it!
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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