Pinocchio Illustration - When He Becomes a Donkey (Photo credit: Kev.Kirsche)
Self-Care Tip: Find your need, grip it tight enough to not let it be taken from you and loose enough that fatigue will not lose it for you.
If we don’t know our need, if we don’t know our wanting, the reason we say “Evangelize,” “Buy this!,” “Don’t miss it!,” if we don’t know why we care what other people are doing, we will not be so productive. We will be a poor salesman. We will have a droll experience. Things will not make sense to us and will be something other than friendly. We bore ourselves when we don’t know why.
What was it like when not being a friend to Me? Remember the way we treated others, the disconnection from the people we wanted and the way life didn’t absorb. Remember why we started with Me.
This is everywhere in our lives – taking medications and resenting it, skipping our exercise, staying up late at night when we are feeling so good, turning our addictions over to our Higher Power becomes rhetoric and you know what more.
This is just a short trip into this idea today. I’ve been blessed remembering my lows, being in my lows, and experiencing my wanting. I’ve been messed up when I didn’t. I don’t want so many goodies that I turn into a donkey.
Keep on.
Questions: How has remembering your wanting improved your ability to be a friend to yourself? How do you keep the memory of your wanting even when you don’t? Please tell me your story?
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