be with what is

Today, I am grateful to know I am loved.  

I am learning how to be tender with myself.  Self-compassion is a new muscle I'm developing.  Understanding the world is a giant blotch of grey helps.  "Good" and "evil" coexist. Just because I am one thing doesn't mean I can't be another.  I can love and hate simultaneously.  Life and everything in it is multi-dimensional.  

I accomplished "pulling another thorn" from my heart.  I got this concept from a great book I read called The Untethered Soul...throughout our lives we experience different emotions, when we don't feel them the moment they happen an energetic "thorn" forms in our body.  If we continue to ignore the source of the "thorn," we start to protect it.  We avoid situations that irritate it until we have formed great big walls around ourselves.  Today, I removed a thorn, I torn down a piece of the wall.  

I delighted in pausing to take in the magnificent morning sky.