I AM SORRY

As I have written several times over the last few months, our world is offering us a big fat mirror to see our selves, our negative egos, and our shadows. It doesn’t matter your beliefs or affiliations. The mirror does not discriminate. It simply reflects exactly what is put in front of it.

This time it is reflecting the inability or reluctance to say three little but powerful words, I am sorry.

Part of waking up and evolving in consciousness is the willingness to take responsibility for your life, and that includes taking responsibility for the times you have been wrong or the times your actions or words may have hurt another.

None of us are perfect. We all are going to make mistakes. We all at some point in our lives are going to do or say something that is going to hurt or rub someone the wrong way. But how we handle those situations will determine if we are growing and reflecting our self-love or instead remaining faithful to our negative egos.

I say self-love because I have never met anyone who is rooted in self-love that has felt the need to win an argument or make someone wrong so that they could be right. I have never met anyone rooted in self-love that didn’t generously offer kindness as a balm to hurt feelings.

When you have done the inner work to reconnect to self-love, you no longer see other people as adversaries or are ruled by your fleeting feelings or emotions. You no longer fear that your mistakes or “supposed” deficiencies will define you. You have bravely looked in your inner mirror of truth and discovered underneath all your “wounds and flaws” the glorious, loving truth about yourself. And when you have done that, you willing offer the same love and kindness you discovered within to all those around you.

When is the last time you said, I am sorry?

And just as importantly, when is the last time you said it to yourself?

Until next time be the light the world needs and stay in love for all.

Joffre McClung is the author of two books  The Heart of the Matter: A Workbook and Guide to Finding Your Way Back to Self-Love  (“Powerful insights…life-changing” FOREWORD CLARION  ” A virtual hug…enriching” BLUEINK REVIEWS, “enlightening self-discovery process”  KIRKUS REVIEWS and  How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live ( “A thoughtful think piece.” Kirkus  Reviews )