No one lives life perfectly. No one is at peace or
serene constantly. No one is energized or at their best every minute. Just as
the tides rise and fall so does our energy levels, our peace and serenity.
Everyone has their moments; the question is what we do when we have them.
Consider: everyone stubs a toe, even the Pope. Granted he probably doesn’t swear
at the piece of offending furniture (and if he did it would probably be in
Latin and everything sounds cool in Latin) when it happens, the point being
that everyone stubs their toe, and it has nothing to do with our spiritual
condition. Now if we blame someone for putting the offending table in our path or
start ranting on the blatant unfairness of the universe for this happening to
us or better still think that for some reason we deserved to stub our toe and
the pain is the universe's way of reminding us of our place, it then becomes a
spiritual matter. If we are constantly looking for negative tea leaves to read
we will always find them and amazingly the news is routinely bad, the forecast calling
for dark with more dark with a chance of scattered woe and pain later in the
week. In truth, usually a cloudy day is just a cloudy day, nothing more.
Everyone takes a turn in the barrel, drops the toast, forgets to pick up milk on the way home or set out the trash cans on trash day, you, me, the Pope, Dalai Lama, everyone. OK, the Pope and Dalai Lama probably have people who set out the trash and pick up milk, but you get my meaning. (Admit it, you just pictured the Pope in your mind’s eye in all his Pope regalia standing in line at the convenience store.) Living on the Spiritual Basis has taught us perspective, that there really are no big deals and nothing is worth losing our peace of mind over, we can meet calamity with serenity, with the occasional expletive, for God knows stubbed toes hurt.
Everyone takes a turn in the barrel, drops the toast, forgets to pick up milk on the way home or set out the trash cans on trash day, you, me, the Pope, Dalai Lama, everyone. OK, the Pope and Dalai Lama probably have people who set out the trash and pick up milk, but you get my meaning. (Admit it, you just pictured the Pope in your mind’s eye in all his Pope regalia standing in line at the convenience store.) Living on the Spiritual Basis has taught us perspective, that there really are no big deals and nothing is worth losing our peace of mind over, we can meet calamity with serenity, with the occasional expletive, for God knows stubbed toes hurt.
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit
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