Today it was said to me " You will only be as big as you want to be , and you will only be as small as you allow yourself to be." What does that mean.
Actually... that means so much that its really not something people should say off the cuff.
To me I hear it as you will only be as good as you want to be and as bad as you allow your self to be. But I think thats shit!
So many wonderful and indescribably excellent things exist because they stay small. Restaurants, music stores, art galleries, churches. Funny all the things I love the most it seems are small. Maybe I am called to shall we change the word from small to bad to intimate... thoughtful, accessible, inclusive.
(bites later)
This life is "calling" us to all and every opportunity it seems. But some wonderfully wise and loving people once said to Louise and I ...
"... many wonderful opportunities and great things will come across your path, the hard part is knowing which of them or what combination is going to bring you closer towards your life's mission statement?"
I personally love thinking of my life as having its own purpose and I in it play a part, but it as a whole is made up of so much more then me. Its made up of all the people in my life wether for periods or always. It is made up of memories, and how I hold on to them and with what tension. Back to people, it is made up by the ways the people around me live. We are not our own to hold and foster, but we are ours for the sharing and the learning from others. As Jesus says our selflessness and death to self is the gain of love and life. Our interests and passions are for us to exercise without really truly knowing the goodness and wonder it gives to other's.
Things Im thinking about
"the act of holding your tongue, can lift the marginalized."
"It is better to obey then to sacrifice"
Christ says" Let me be servent so you can be King." Philipians
I want to do good, even in the midst of being human.
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