Blooming from Within

The bud
stands for all things,
even those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing...*

Saturday afternoon I stood in front of a full-length mirror and casually thought, "I don't like anything I see." I didn't even realize I had thought that until a later conversation with a friend.

I opened today's entry with the excerpt from "St. Francis & the Sow" to remind us that it's time to reteach our selves our loveliness. Today I looked in my mirror and noticed the lovely clearness of my skin. My face looked clean, clear, and hopeful. Inside me lives this magnificent girl/woman who needs to know that I see and value her.

What about you? What is it that you need to do to reacquaint your self with your innate loveliness? Will you look in the mirror today and greet yourself as a friend?

*St. Francis & the Sow by Galway Kinnell