Frees me to create the world I want to be in.

This past summer Mark and I were sitting on the back porch.  I was writing; he was drawing.  Jon Bon Jovi’s music played in the background.  The last song on the CD came on.  The title, I’m not sure of, but the lyrics, learn to love the world you’re in, spoke to me-loud and clear. I don’t think I was loving my world so much that day.  No, if memory serves me right…. I was finding fault with a lot of things and feeling just peachy keen….NOT!

All of us want a world that we can love (and in this particular instance I am talking about our own personal one).  One that makes us smile, our hearts’ sing…dreams that come true.  Life that gives us meaning, substance, and beauty.  And usually we have a picture in our mind of what that looks like.  And then we look around us and see the ‘reality’ of our world and the two may look very different.

Learning to love the world you’re in… What this means to me is this-  stop judging it.  You can hate it and all the things that might be wrong with it – your world, my world- if you want to, but then everything just keeps going on like it always has with no real change.   When I need my world to change before I can feel better; then everything freezes up and the only thing that does; is to make me feel worse than I already did; left with the feeling like I want to jump off of this ‘runaway train’…another song and another story- for another day…:)

Today I am giving myself this…. by loving (not judging) my world I am free.  Judgments that weren’t serving me in the first place; only holding me down; along with the negative feelings that were attached to it….. I let go.

And I am left with the freedom to pursue creating the world I want to make; without needing anything to change in order to feel good….. because I’m already there.