Lesson 3: Start with the glass half full. You are already worthy!
Forgive Yourself and Start Fresh
by Mary Hayes Grieco
Lesson 3: Start with the glass half full. You are already worthy!
Take a moment to review yesterday’s lesson and repeat the inspired intention aloud.
Let’s claim radical worthiness today!
You’re here. You’re great. You’re flawed. You may even feel like something is broken. Your life has taken some turns that were surprising, and not always pleasant.
So what? You get to be here and start thriving, anyway, as you.
You’re tired, but determined and ready for the re-boot and re-invention that’s coming.
You are the only one like you that has ever been created, and you are the only one who can master your particular gig. You are the only one who can heal your wounds, dispel your fears, develop your gifts, and offer them to the world.
Will you? ____________ (Here’s where you say yes.)
Oh, say it bigger! __________ YES!
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further reading:
“HUMILITY” –
from The New Kitchen Mystic by Mary Hayes Grieco
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” – Jesus
A counselor of mine once told me that she saw me as a person with a great deal of power and energy that I was scattering to the winds with my erratic undisciplined behavior. She asked me why I was afraid to have power.
I replied that I had been taught by my religious upbringing that I should be humble and not call attention to myself or ask for too much for myself. She looked at me and asked, “But what does humility really mean to you? To my surprise my voice answered from an inner knowing: “Humility is taking one’s rightful place in the Universe.” I’m still in the process of trying to fully understand what that means.
Humility has really gotten a bad rap. Generally, people think of humility as taking the “lowest” position in a situation. But in fact, there are no real “high” or “low” positions in the world — there is only the right place for each individual at a given time and place, within the organic Whole.
Some have rejected the idea of adopting humility as an attitude because they were erroneously trained in shame and self-deprecation in the name of humility. These people usually shift to a rebellious form of rigid pride and an inflated sense of self as a defense against the pain of this false understanding. I have seen other people choose permanent identification with the poor and struggling—”the people”— in the name of humility. Some of these folk feel righteous in their sense of separation from the rich and powerful, yet they may actually be practicing a greater form of arrogance than that of the people they presume are snobs!
Humility is neither high nor low, rich nor poor. It is taking your rightful place now, and serving the good of the Whole from that place.
I remember hearing a friend of Martin Luther King describing the constant struggle King felt about being in his position in the civil rights movement. He often felt that he was inadequate for the job; that he lacked some of the skills and qualities which he perceived were necessary for this leadership. And yet this “place” was continually offered to him by the mysterious force of this powerful movement, and it was his place alone to take. How fortunate for our whole nation that he had the humility to continue to accept this position despite his nagging insecurity.
Every one of us is gifted in some regard.
It seems that our life situations will consistently ask us to serve the good of the Whole with these gifts, which come out of our character and our nature. Our gifts contribute to the balance and health of human society. I know someone who has an uncanny knack for enhancing the physical comfort of any environment he is in for more than a day. He serves the comfort of those around him with apparent grace and ease; it comes out of who he is.
I know someone else who has an intuitive radar for errors and missing details, and he has been an invaluable worker in his jobs in warehouses and mail order businesses, where these skills really count. There are people who are natural counselors, and their good listening skills and easy empathy will attract the upset or needy person at any party or bus stop!
Sometimes we find ourselves asking “Why am I always the one who…?!” Well, because you are. So you’re the one who volunteers to stay and clean up after the party is over? Good! Do it. Humility asks you to give what you have to give, within practical limits.
I have known some bright and talented people who kept their light under a bushel basket because they were afraid to shine. They doubted their motives, their right to take up space; they served a false notion of humility. Every time God offered them an opportunity to shine they backed off or sabotaged their own efforts, so they wouldn’t have too big of an impact on anything.
If Life is asking you to shine, it is a form of arrogance to refuse it. It is also a lack of perspective. You are not the best or the worst thing that has ever come along, you are just uniquely you, and it’s your turn under the sun to grow and blossom, spread your seeds, and die.
What if the prairie flowers refused to bloom because they were afraid they wouldn’t be the best thing on the prairie, or no one would really appreciate their effort?
Each one of them is a singular glory – and so are you, when you’re being your authentic soulful self.
Humbly take your rightful place in the Universe!
“GLORY”:
resplendent beauty or magnificence;
A state of great splendor, magnificence, or prosperity;
A state of absolute happiness, gratification, and contentment.