the burn<\/a> and it’s healing very nicely, thank you very much. I was given a new insight about the incident this morning and as much as I cringed when I heard it I think it’s worth exploring.<\/p>\nMy own interpretation of the “why” is that I am being taught compassion on a whole new level. (When you pray for freedom from judgmental thinking, look out.) But in a conversation earlier today a friend said, “Perhaps it’s not so much about judging others as it is about judging yourself.”<\/p>\n
My first response was, “Of course.” I mean, I know<\/em> that. But knowing something and really being willing to take a look at it are two very different things.<\/p>\nIn what ways am I still judging myself? I’ve come so far and made so much progress in learning to love myself that it’s easy to think I’ve graduated from the sickening school of self-loathing. So where am I now lacking in compassion for Celia?<\/p>\n
These are deep questions and not easily answered in a few paragraphs. But now that I’ve been given the opportunity to investigate them I will take the time to do just that and get back to you.<\/p>\n
Inspiring Message of the Day:<\/em><\/strong> When someone has a personal insight to offer me I will accept it with an open mind. It may not be easy to hear this kind of “advice” but my spiritual well-being will no doubt be given new depth by the offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dearest Readers, It’s been thirteen days since the burn and it’s healing very nicely, thank you very much. I was given a new insight about the incident this morning and as much as I cringed when I heard it I think it’s worth exploring. My own interpretation of the “why” is that I am being…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[827,816,325,472,371,817],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-compassion","tag-inspiration","tag-inspiring-message-of-the-day","tag-judgmental-thinking","tag-metaphysics","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}