Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world. Thus to judge and condemn yourself is a form of selfishness. Self-prosecution is never noble; it does no one service.
From: THE LITTLE BOOK OF FORGIVENESS by D. Patrick Miller
REFLECTION:
Is there something you are judging and condemning yourself for?
So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars. Let us listen to the sound of breath in our bodies. Let us listen to the sounds of our own voices, of our own names, of our own fears. Let’s claw ourselves out from the graves we’ve dug. Let us lick the earth from our fingers. Let us look up and out and around. The world is big and wide and wild and wonderful and wicked, and our lives are murky, magnificent, malleable, and full of meaning …”
Prayer by Pádraig Ó Tuama from his book: Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
REFLECTION:
What is the sound of your own voice saying?
How can you take in this big and wide and wild and wonderful and wicked world in a fuller way?