Today's Daily Lesson comes from Isaiah chapter 45 verses 9 and 10:
9 “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
or ‘Your work has no handles’?
10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’
or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”
What a need there is for all of us to accept, embrace, and love ourselves just as we are and not how we or somebody else wished we would be.
We need to learn to love what we do and how we look when we do it.
We need to learn to accept our size, our shape, and our color.
We need to learn to embrace our place and our purpose -- right there where we are and not where we're not.
We need to learn to bloom right where we've been planted -- for what would the desert be if the cactus withheld her coarse beauty?
We need to remember that he who is faithful in small things shall be given much.
We need to know that just as a gardener judges a lilac bush by its lilacs and not it's roses so we too will be judged by just how beautifully Ryon is Ryon and not somebody else.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a sermon he liked to preach called, "The Street Sweeper". In it he said if one is just a street sweeper in life let him be the greatest street sweeper in all the world. Let him be "the Michaelangelo of street sweeping".
May I be the Michaelangelo of me today; and may you be the Michaelangelo of you too. And together, let's create in ourselves a masterpiece.
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