Thank you Jan Brink for this articleโฆ. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ ๐ถ๐ NOT ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ โ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐.
It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. They arenโt.
Our lives are.
Our spirituality is.
Our relationships are.
Our work is.
Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like itโs all youโve got to offer the world.
Your body is not your art, itโs your paintbrush.
Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.
What is relevant is that
YOU HAVE A PAINTBRUSH
which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life โ where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.
Your body is not your offering. Itโs just a really amazing instrument which you can use to create your offering each day.
Donโt curse your paintbrush. Donโt sit in a corner wishing you had a different paintbrush. Youโre wasting time. Youโve got the one you got.
Be grateful, because without it youโd have nothing with which to paint your lifeโs work.
Your lifeโs work is the love you give and receive โ and your body is the instrument you use to accept and offer love on your soulโs behalf.
Itโs a system.
We are encouraged to obsess over our instrumentโs SHAPE โ but our bodyโs shape has no effect on itโs ability to accept and offer love for us.
Just none.
Maybe we continue to obsess because as long we keep wringing our hands about our paintbrush shape, we donโt have to get to work painting our lives.
Stop fretting.
The truth is that all paintbrush shapes work just fine โ and anybody who tells you different is trying to sell you something.
Donโt buy.
Just paint.
No wait โ first, stop what you are doing and say THANK YOU to your body โ right now.
Say THANK YOU to your eyes for taking in the beauty of sunsets and storms and children blowing out birthday candles and say
THANK YOU to your hands for writing love letters and opening doors and stirring soup and waving to strangers and say
THANK YOU to your legs for walking you from danger to safety and climbing so many mountains for you.
Then pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU.
Paint this day beautiful, bold, wild & free.
Glennon Doyle, Momastary Art by The Ronald West Gallery
