Morning musing. An artist friend of mine is working on a painting. I am so impressed by what she has done so far. She has an area where there is a sort of eldritch light shining in the distance. The painting makes me want to walk into it, find the light source, just be. But yesterday she told me she didn’t work on her painting all weekend. It seems that she went to an exhibit and looked at some sidewalk art, and felt inferior and got discouraged. “If a twelve-year-old kid can make this kind of art with chalk on a sidewalk, who am I to feel as if I have something to contribute?” Here is the fallacy of the the Destiny Thief. We all do this to ourselves. We all hit times when we feel ‘less than’, when we are forced into a competition with others, by others or our own selves. When we start feeling like we are not hitting someone else’s marks. When the temptation to abandon our own path and try to walk on someone else’s seems to be the way that is right. It is never right. We each have our own unique path, and we have been given the vision to walk it. We each have our own load of provisions and our own burdens to carry with us. When we turn our eyes on others’ paths or others’ work, or envy the lightness of their load or their extensive array of tools that we may not have, we take our intentions away from the path we were sent to walk, and risk falling. If we fall too much, we may begin to doubt the trueness of our path, and finally give up. Find your own path and walk it with intent. Use your vision to see everything that has been put there. Use your tools with confidence – you really have been given everything you need to make the journey. Some days it’s hard to do much more than trudge along a rocky part with your head down, but here you must keep your eyes open and your vision clear. Stay in the moment and give it all you can. It will be enough, and more than enough. Thats a promise.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:56:52 +0000
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