Today at confession, the priest reminded me of something that I forgot. That all in all, I’m a good person.
It’s easy to forget when you spend the 30 minutes before that moment really mulling out how bad of person you are. I’ve learned that you really have to go to the lowest lows of yourself in order to get to greater heights. The key is not to dwell on the low, but to use it to get more trajectory to your growth goals. It’s like squatting as low as you can to jump. But it has to be in a fluid motion from standing to an immediate but short squat to get that take off. If I stay in the squat, it actually becomes more difficult to jump higher.
So I shouldn’t stay in the low, focusing on how bad of a person I am. But acknowledge that it’s all part of reaching that high standard I should be setting for myself everyday. That standard that the priest kindly reminded me that I’m more than capable of being.
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