WANTING SOMETHING " DIFFERENT"

I AM moved by the calling and the theme presented this week by some of the most wonderful people I know.  The silent sufferers, the angry one, the searcher and wanderer.  Wonderful and wanting something "different."   
You and they are  what I like to call Children of the Divine...just like me.  
So,  I have a message for you in the thoughts to follow below ...because we are not that separate and all could use this pause and reflection: 

No matter what side of the aisle you stand on, no matter who or what you pray to, no matter what it is you do for a living,  I do  think you will agree that we often do not know what someone has been presented in our lives to do. 

We often put an assignment on people and our terrible E(dging) G(od) O(ut) has us trying to force folks to fit a mold most convenient for us. 

Let me assure you that no matter who you are or who you believe yourself to be, that behavior from YOU does not work. 

This yearning through actions and altered standards of existence in order for people to be someone that they are not often results in the people who deserve your tenderness missing it and even worse. YOU could end up losing out on YOU in the process of awaiting a change (from another person) outside of yourself.

I implore YOU: Let us all be wise and journey within so we can be worthy of connecting to people we are not waiting to change.  How  you develop, conduct and rebuild yourself will tell others how to entertain, treat,  and interact with you.

You will be alienated, lonely, bitter and fatigued expecting people to operate as you wish.
You will know what it feels like to be a  public toilet if you keep on with the same behavior which in many cases is a need for someone to behave a certain way so that  your dream can be rescued.  A public toilet never gets real care or anyone's concern until it backs up and overflows. Often times people just shut the door and find another one to use.
The worst part about that is you likely end up treating them with as much regard as a toilet too.

You will find yourself in a state of disappointment.  By that I mean YOU will be removed from what you are uniquely made to do, how you are meant to operate and as your heart and soul would be set. Will and consciousness are specific in each person.  The change that you want is fused and ignited by YOU. Do what you always do if you want only what you  have always gotten . However, if you are looking for a change in others give them something uniquely different to react to.

Yes, CHANGE YOU. YOUR behavior, YOUR actions, YOUR reactions. Do this not to create any malice, shock or dismay, but to most positively put yourself in a better position for ACCEPTANCE that things and people are who they are. YOU are most powerful when in charge of SELF.YOU cannot force someone to behave as you would like or as you deem rational, reasonable, our sound. 

Establishing as well as acknowledging and accepting personal and even professional boundaries supports sanity and a good end result. 

Everyone is not going to serve your needs, whims, or ideal. They do not have to. 

Live up to what you are here to do.  

The way you interact or for that matter do not interact with someone who as offended you will speak to that most powerfully. 

Allow yourself the peace of accepting that people are who they are and not so much who you might have them be.

We have all already been fashioned by an all powerful source. Refashioning another person is not your ticket  to redeem for anyone.  It is  redemptive as a gift you grant yourself. 

There is very little that a aware and self loving adult can be subjected to by another person who did not show up for their appointed role or who they were expected to be. 

YOU CHANGE THINGS.

Your responsibility is to be happy and not for a little while, but for all time. 

Someone who you will not want to change awaits your presence.  Get to it. 

I wish you infinite joy and peace. That is all for now and all time.   

(*soapbox set eye to eye - SEE ME SEEING YOU!)

- Adrienne A. Wallace