I Shall Not Judge

I Shall Not Judge

How different would your day be like
if you started each day
saying that just for today
I shall not judge.
What if we stopped judging ourselves and others
We all have to judge things at times, like work,
however, we can focus on being less judgmental of others.
What if we developed the skills a judge should possess,
qualities like careful listening,
deep reflection,
equanimity,
and wisdom.
What if we asked ourselves how much we really know
about a person and a situation?
Are we judging them based on what we think we know
when we really do not know all of their story?
Have we thought about times we have been judged
and how being judged feels?
I think about the times others have told me
how much better I would be
if only I did x
or stopped doing y.
Their judgmental words make me work hard
to not judge them in return
Being mindful of how their judgment makes me feel,
I work to prevent having this effect on others?

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Character Defects.

Character Defects.

It is so easy to point out what I do not like in others,
but one day I came to realize that
the defects I see in others,
are really about things I do not like in myself.
One characteristic I used to and still dislike are makeover queens and kings.
It generally comes when people tell me
that I would be physically beautiful if only
I would use their skin care program and wear makeup.
I stopped and said I would be more beautiful if
I wore make up and used skin care.
It was not the latter part that so much rang true,
but the I am beautiful part.
Now I focus on my own beauty.
I recognize that what makes me beautiful
is not product I use,
but the way in which I move through this world,
radiate love to others
and let my inner beauty shine.
What if instead of saying I don’t like how Barb puts me down,
I said, I don’t like how I put myself down?
Is there truth there?
Who are the people who you dislike or whose behaviors you do?
Rather then focus on why you dislike them,
see them as a blessing
and a mirror to help you in your own growth journey.
 Take those defects and make them blessings.
Transform them,
by being willing to look in the mirror
and let those defects reflect back.

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My Legacy – Beginning

My Legacy – Beginning

I listen to my friends
as they talk about their families
and the legacy they are leaving behind.
It causes me to stop and think about
what my legacy is.
What is it I am leaving behind.
I will leave Nick behind and
he is a legacy of the transformative power of unconditional love.
Being his mother has not always been easy.
There are days that have been filled with joy,
and others filled with pain,
but the one thing I am leaving in him
is knowing how the love we share 
has transformed his life.
I hope, however, that there is more to my legacy
then what I have bequeathed him.
I think about this often.
What will people say about me
or remember about me when I am gone.
Perhaps it is time for me to dive within
and write the story of my life.
Maybe its time for me to write
about what is important to me and why.
What do my words,
my writings,
my poems
say about me and my legacy.
What is the wisdom I want to leave behind?
What is the advice I want to pass on?
What are the blessings that have changed my life?
Maybe these words are just the beginning
as I reflect on my spiritual legacy
and the gifts I bequeath to the world.

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Becoming Beautiful

I used to think I was ugly.
that was the message I got from society
because I am fat,
because I am old
because I am not a gurly girl.
because I was looking at society’s mirror,
and not God’s.
It was my skinny friends
who began teaching  me I was beautiful.
It was when a dear friend was moving
and she wanted a picture of the gang.
four skinny girls and me.
I wanted to hide
and they wanted me smack dab in the middle.
What they said was my beauty
would last long past theirs
because mine was internal.
A friend of mine and I were talking
and her words struck me.
“Your poetry makes you beautiful.”
it’s not my poems themselves,
but what happens within me
as I write them.
Then I began to realize
that it is not what I create
whether it is a meal,
or a blanket,
or a poem
that makes me beautiful,
but the process of creating,
that helps me become beautiful
It is the time with the master of creating
which gives me time to learn and grow,
to evolve and transform.
to become more beautiful
and to let that beauty shine
through me into the world.
What do you do to become beautiful

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