Seeing Beyond The Flaws

[MajestyJo]

Saturday, February 15, 2014

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

It is always a mistake not to close one's eyes, whether to forgive or to look better into oneself.
—Maurice Maeterlinck

It is easy to look outward and find faults with the world and people around us. We criticize family members or complain about our friends. We always notice disease in the trees around us.

But if we take time to be quiet, to sit alone in a tree or by a lake, we become more aware of how connected we are to the life around us. We are part of the beauty and the imperfection. When we notice our own tree is not perfect, it becomes easier to forgive the blights of those around us. It is also important to forgive ourselves our faults. Though all the trees are beautiful, they each have their scars. Being human means we are, like all humanity, both beautiful and imperfect.

Will I see through the flaws to another's beauty today?

Have shared on this recently. Looking beyond the surface. Scars can run deep and are many layered. It is important to look beyond the surface. Who I am is not skin deep.