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?
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