It’s Friday. Let’s laugh. And to be completely honest, this is very good life advice: “People will stop asking you questions if you answer back in interpretive dance.”
Category: grace
Inspired: Leap From Fear to Grace with an Eraser
“If we would only see that all limitations are self-imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once into the arms of grace.” ~ Adyashanti
Is there something holding you back from doing something you really want to do? Too often I find that my roadblocks are internal. To overcome them, I close my eyes and imagine the roadblock—fear of failure, a lack of confidence, worry—as a physical object. I erase it, one piece at a time, until the canvas of my mind is blank. Then, I open my eyes and leap into the work at-hand.
Inspired: Be Your Own Hero
A friend of mine recently ripped off my work and presented it as her own. I didn’t realize she’d done this until I read about it in a magazine. I didn’t wallow. I just walked away and left it in karma’s capable hands. Here is the greatest lesson I learned: grace and dignity are choices. Sh*t is going to happen to you. The sh*t isn’t what defines you. It’s how you handle it that makes all the difference. Turn the beat around.
Beautiful: On the Sixth Day of Christmas, Let There Be More Grace
“I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” ~ Anne Lamott
As long as we live and breathe, the pressures of life will always be with us. We will face stress, disappointment, and loss. There is no way out of that. As the great yogi Dolly Parton once said, “If you want rainbows, you gotta put up with the rain.” How we face our difficulties over time, how we reflect on them and allow them to shape us, depends upon our level of grace. They can make us better, or they can make us bitter. In the immediate aftermath of something upsetting, we process. We give space and time to heal. We grieve, and then hopefully we grow. We see other people grieve, and we extend our hands, hearts, and help. That is the power of grace – to support us in our time of need and then to give us the strength to support others when they need us most.
This post is part of the “Let there be…” consecutive series of Christmas wishes.
Christa Avampato 