Namaste in the Mirror 🙏

 Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.  Oscar Wilde

Today, I find it easier to relax into what is, to be just dandy with who I am. That has taken a lot of time, along with a mental 180° swivel. There’s a kind of magnetism to returning to the old compass point of ‘not-enough-ness’, but these days, I have awareness of that. Coupled with the much stronger desire to find my True North, I am better able to navigate the wilderness areas I come across when I feel a little lost. That loving awareness can come from within, but I’m often helped along by the dear hearts of friends holding my compass for me.

Back when I couldn’t find a path for all the weeds, I couldn’t look in the mirror with any appreciation for who I saw staring back at me. I would tell her how disgustingly awful she was; what a loser; what an angry, sad, pitiful creature she had become. I became very practiced in the dark art of self-hatred and self-pity. There is no strength there—only loneliness and pain, spinning in a vortex.

I have learned, with the understanding from my Creator, that I am a wonder! I am strong and capable, loving and lovable, always learning, always forgiven when I fall short. When I need to retreat, I love myself enough to allow that. When I am courageous, I acknowledge that which lies within.

When I see the Light in another, that seeing is coming from the Light within me. When I look in the mirror, the Light of God in me recognizes the Light of God in me!