Tuesday, February 22, 2011

DON'T LET A BIG WORRY COME ALONG TO MAKE YOU REALIZE YOUR SMALL WORRIES DON'T MATTER...

There is an old Yiddish blessing that ironically wishes, “May you have many worries.”
At first glance, it seems more like a curse than a blessing. Why would you wish someone you care about many worries?
The answer lies in the heart of my mother’s experience: If we have many troubles swirling about us—and we choose to entertain those worries—that means that we do not have a single, overriding worry to consume us.
And the absence of that single, oppressive worry is a blessing in itself.
There is a great source of empowerment in this understanding: If large troubles displace small worries and with a single powerful stroke, suddenly wiping our slate of worries clean, then we ourselves can choose to wipe that slate clean at any moment.
This little bit of folksy wisdom is, in fact, a very deep instruction:
Don’t wait for a big trouble to come along to make you realize that your small troubles don’t matter.

2 comments:

Robin said...

Good post! More please...

dave mac said...

you got it! a touch of zen daily so...