The Courage to Be You

Impatience

So I'm waiting for the carpet cleaner to show to let him in next door. This good deed was going astray after an hour ..and without his cell phone number. Started going down the "the world revolves around me" impatient path but realized it and stopped.

I figured I had at least 2 choices;  1. find a way around the problem or 2. relax and let it be. I did have an appointment, but with flexible time. Oh, I had plenty to keep me busy as I waited. I've been trying to see my life from a bigger world view, and my thinking was, "what if the reason he was late was much more important than my needs?" What if he spent extra time playing with his daughter this morning on her birthday? What if he was delayed because of comforting his sister whose son is in Iraq? Or what if????

When we zoom out on our current situation, many times it's much easier to "see" life for all it's beauty and appreciate how we interconnect. It's a much truer way to see the world.

An Abundant Life

Doesn't that sound wonderful - an abundant life? Yet we live in a world that champions scarcity. Advertising pounds us every day with messages about what we lack in every facet of our lives. We need more of this, a better that, a new something else.  And when we get those things, we'll be satisfied for awhile and then start all over wanting again.

The path to an abundant life is through the sole. When we learn to live from the inside out...that's when life becomes beautiful. When "being" becomes more important than doing or having. Or who we are on the inside takes priority over who we are on the outside to the rest of the world. We can never accumulate enough wealth, stature, or anything else and be satisfied.

The old question of, "How much is enough?" still has the old answer of, "Just a little bit more than I already have." Isn't abundance what we all crave? Are we looking in all the wrong places?