Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Tools of Serve Truth, Part Five: The Gift of 'Do-Overs'

Support tools for letting go what no longer serves us AND for learning to serve in Truth:
1) Gathering with a few others to review the scene before any action (just be sure they aren’t enablers)
2) Praying (remember the running out the door prayer-that is enough August 24 )
3) Contemplating  (which means watching and listening and hearing)
4) Receiving help (as gracefully as currently possible)
5) Taking a ‘do-over’ and humbly beginning again (as many times as needed)

Mulligans and gimmes. Re-takes and do-overs.  Can I begin again when I have had a miss-take?  
The Path of Truth is a learning path, not a path to perfection, but ongoing  practice. 
Practice requires a willingness to have error,  trials, failed attempts and blunders.
Learned grace is what comes from our willingness to keep going without any 
guarantee of getting it right-ever.  

Every year, every season, every cycle, every day is an invitation to begin again.  
In Truth, every breath is a renewal of life.  
We all have had times where we take a deep breath and with that breath take hold of the impulse to meet a challenge, move forward, start, begin.  

The gift for all who choose to embrace the Cycles of Truth is the invitation with each breath to begin again.  This gift comes with  compassion, acceptance, tolerance for ours and others wrong steps and love for the beauty of imperfection.  

Self Reflection:  Is there a place in my life where I could use a do-over? If so, what do I need to be humble enough to receive this gift?

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