I was listening to a Wayne Dyer seminar and I was struck by the question "What would it be like to live your life as a masterpiece?".
Picasso immediately
sprang into my mind. In 2015 his
painting 'Women of Algiers' broke
records for the most expensive artwork sold at auction, selling for a stunning
one hundred and seventy nine million dollars ($179m) amid high demand from
collectors.
Have you ever looked at a Picasso? I'm sure the pundits will carry on at length
about his brilliant use of layers of colour, the intricacy of his brush strokes
and so on but to the uneducated eye a Picasso looks like the crayon drawings of
a demented second grader.
I did a
review of the most expensive art on earth and the familiar names showed up, Picasso,
Van Gogh, Warhol et al. Of the twenty
most expensive pieces only one to me looked like an attractive demonstration of
artistic talent, yet these paintings are solid investments to the people who
are most adept at determining worth.
I saw a
lesson in this. So often we look at all
our flaws, we can point out every brushstroke which went awry, we magnify every
smudge and every shadow. We fail to see
that we are priceless just as we are.
Do you know
that you are a masterpiece?
You Are The Breath Of
God
“And
the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis
2 : 7
I love the
imagery in this scripture. Do you know
that when you die your body weighs exactly what it did when you were
alive? That life energy that makes you
You has no mass to it, it has no form, no substance, yet when that life force
is gone it is starkly obvious.
We are not
our physical forms. We are not black or
white, male or female. We are not fat or
slim, healthy or sick. We are energy. Can you find fault with the wind? Can you criticize it "the wind is
looking fat today". Can you berate
the wind and put it down and tell it that it is not good enough?
Yet you do
all these things to yourself, the very
breath of God.
You Are The Creation Of Perfect Love
"God created you in perfect love that is
changeless and eternal" - Dr Wayne Dyer
A friend recently
commented that she felt like a waste of life, simply using up other people's
air. I understand her pain, she
struggles under the burden of chronic illness.
Another friend struggles with chronic depression, she sees herself as
useless, worthless, a cruel cosmic mistake.
God makes no
mistakes. There are no wasted
lives. Each of us is a creation of
perfect love and each one of us is perfectly loved.
You Are Perfect Just As You Are
"I exist as I am, that is enough " - Walt
Witman
I read recently the
story of the broken water pot. An
elderly woman carried water from a stream in two water pots suspended on the
ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One pot was whole the other was broken. Every day she would arrive home with one full
pot and one half empty. Finally the woman was asked why she did not replace the
broken pot. The woman pointed out that
she had planted seeds on the side of the road and the broken pot watered these
seeds each day as she walked home. From
these seeds she was able to harvest beautiful flowers for her table.
Each of us has our
divinely appointed role and many of us are playing our roles out even now
without knowing it. The next time you
are tempted to see yourself as broken remember the broken water pot. You are never without value because you impact the world around you by simply being and a loving
master can use your imperfections to make a beautiful garden.
You Are More Than You
Are
Dr Dyer
references the story of Michelangelo's 'David'.
Michelangelo said that David always existed within the slab of marble,
he just chipped away the excess to set David free.
Maybe you look at
yourself right now and you see an unformed, undefined slab. If you look closely you can see the beauty in
the natural stone but for most the beauty becomes apparent only as the sculptor
starts to chip away at it, bringing forth forms which our human minds can see
and appreciate.
The David sculpture
is particularly famous for the attention to detail which Michelangelo brought
to his masterpiece. I am struck by the
exquisite skill with which he executed every hair, the textures of skin, even
finger and toenails. He is commended for
his perfect mastery of human proportion and then tweaking reality to bring
forth the image of a perfectly beautiful man.
God is the master
sculptor and the hard knocks which we feel in our lives are simply strokes of
the master's chisel. The refining
process can be painful, so much so that we sometimes cannot see beyond our pain.
Perhaps it would help if we were to accept
each time we feel the master's strokes that there is a David inside each one of
us and all we go through now is simply the process of creation of a
masterpiece. God is simply chipping away
the excess to set you free.
You Are Priceless
“You are uniquely
and wonderfully made. You are just right
just as you are. There is none greater
or more worthy than you. You are child
of God and not only are you kings and queens by inheritance, you are specially gifted and talented” – Embracing Prosperity By Changing Your Mind
What is the
price of a human soul? Who can put a
value on who you are? Is your value
defined by your job, your house, your kids, your marriage? Is your value defined by the opinions of
others? Do you need to achieve success,
or wealth or any other earthly recognition to be valuable in your own
mind?
In my book
Embracing Prosperity By Changing Your Life I speak about my own struggle to recognize
my own worth in the face of a lifetime of negative conditioning combined with
living with a debilitating illness. But I am
blessed with the innate knowledge that I was born special and there was
nothing that I needed to do, to achieve or to be in order to deserve that. I am special, I am worthy, I am blessed, I am
valuable simply because I am. That is
grace, and grace is available to every
one of us.
Your worth has no
price tag. You are uniquely and
wonderfully made and none is more worthy than you. You are more valuable than any Picasso, because you are priceless.
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