Flowering Fridays: All the Facets
Friday, February 26, 2010 at 12:01AM 
There are many facets to everything in life.
Many facets of the truth.
Many facets to the people we love.
Many facets of ourselves.
For me, it's often easiest to the love the facets I find most pleasing.
Be it with myself or with others.
But to love the facets that aren't as pleasing — the parts of myself and others I don't like or I wish would change....well...that can feel like a stretch sometimes.
(Sometimes it feels downright impossible.)
Yet I know that there's power and grace and kindness in loving all the facets.
I know that when I can be in acceptance of all the facets the beauty is able to fully emerge.
(*note acceptance does not mean condoning or agreeing; acceptance means seeing that there's always some beauty and wholeness present. It might be hidden, but it's always present.)
I look at this flower — with all the details up close.
The flower *is* beautiful, but it's far from perfect.
Notice the misshapen petal. How the center has asymmetrical shapes.
Those parts are not perfect.
And then I think…maybe that is part of the perfection.
As it is with each of us. As it is with all things.
Tell me, how do you embrace all the facets of yourself, others and life?
Image: from November 2009, bouquet on kitchen table
Flowering Fridays is a weekly look at flowers through the lens of what they might teach us about flowering fully in our life. Past editions are here.
Reader Comments (5)
I just sat down with my morning coffee and was so happy when I remembered it was Flowering Friday. I needed this hug this morning. This past month has been quite challenging physically, emotionally and spiritually. Menopause has .....Ha, I can't even find the words to describe the impact. How I have been attempting , sometimes successfully sometimes not,to embrace this time is to speak very lovingly and soothingly to my little body. Although, I think the most important piece has been being honest with my family and friends when the tidal wave of emotion hits I let them know "this may take a bit to pass."
Thank you for being here,
Grace
Grace —
I'm sending you a big hug — and I love that you are finding a way to be loving as you experience menopause...
Always here sending you love,
Shannon
Like Grace said, I too remembered it was a flowering friday..um yesterday :) and here I sit with my evening tea thinking about this powerful question...how do we embrace all the facets of myself, others, life...
For me?
It is a thought by thought pace...and insistence and devotion and willingness to see a whole complete idea within all...myself and others...and to know that we are each/all evolving that wholeness....
I may not see smoothe sculpture when I stare at a slab of marble...but i know it's within.
I may not see completed masterpiece upon glancing as a canvas in process, but for that artist, there will be one.
Embracing the wholeness doesn't mean harsh dictatorial mandates to be perfect in a superficial sense...it means own your yearnings....
and I've lived enough to know that all of us have them....this gives me patience and forgiveness when I may observe myself or someone else exuding anything but grace.
A fave author--Mary Baker Eddy--writes "Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and deeds." (from her book Science and Health)
Those yearnings we can trust...and listen for how to exude..but it's a given we surely will. :) Love this reminder in your post :)
Beautiful photo. Beautiful sentiment.
Tre — So beautifully put, thank you for sharing your thoughts here...
And
Otis, thank you for taking the time to comment.
{big love to all!}}