Never place a period where God has placed a comma.Quote by Gracie AllenREFLECTION:WOW... that's a saying! It requires that you have a little faith... maybe a lot of faith.Have you placed a period where maybe there is a comma ... A relationship with a spouse or friend, a health challenge for you or someone you love, a difficult work situation.What if there is just a comma - not a period how does that shift things?
Courage is a generous act that involves risk. It's not courageous to hang out with friends and make a crank phone call. The risk involved might be actual risk (it took courage to go to the moon) or it might feel risky (raising your hand at a meeting to ask a useful questions probably has no real downside but it feels that way). Too often, we get hung up on how risky it feels, and fail to focus enough on how generous the work is. Generosity is a great antidote to fear. FROM: Seth Godin's Daily BlogREFLECTION:Courage involves risk.Having courage and taking risks can be a generous act.What if you could have the courage to to take a risk - write a book, share your story, heal a broken relationship, say you are sorry to another...Knowing this is an act of generosity can help to shift from fear to being brave risk an action today.
Mushroom helping to "clean up" in the forest - mushrooms assist in decomposing. It is the unacknowledged hurt that becomes a wound. Our only recourse is to acknowledge what we've done and clean up the mess. Even if our awareness comes years after delivering the hurt, the smallest word or gesture - owning what we've done - can reopen the heart.The Book Of Awakening by Mark NepoREFLECTION:Is there a wound or unacknowledged hurt you are carrying toward someone?Is there a wound someone else has toward you?Can you acknowledge what you have done ... perhaps say you are sorry or some other gesture?What can you do to reopen the heart... clean up the mess that exists in that relationship?