The Power Of Being Nothing
I listening to a song on the radio that affirmed, “Wrap your past up in a cocoon and let it die. Then soon you will emerge as a butterfly.”
When I got up this morning the “it” was raging in my head telling me what a waste of human experience I was. Planning to record “it’s” thoughts in my new Christmas journal, I opened to the first page and another voice speaking to me from the blank pages. This voice whispered, “Your past is empty and meaningless and the fact that it is empty and meaningless is empty and meaningless.”
My goal for this new journal is to begin each day as nothing or on a blank page. The whisper went on to say, “As you sit here writing on these blank pages you have the tools and the ability to build on solid rock. Everything else is gone. You now have the opportunity to start at the bottom with nothing. You will be at rock bottom.
This is a good beginning. I am nothing.
In the story of “Fiddler On The Roof “a Jewish community is commanded to leave their little village of Anateveka. The villagers are inflamed, hurt and upset until they start to think about what they have in Anatevka. Nothing!
“A little bit of this, a little bit of that, a stone, a rock a bench a tree. Anatevka, tumble down, work a day. Underfed, Overworked. We should have put a match to this place a long time ago.”
Today I took a match to my past and burned it up. Let it go. It all means nothing. I let it go and went to my early morning meeting mentally healthy. The insanity of my past may attempt to sneak back by this afternoon, but for the moment I am pretty healthy.
Today my T shirt says, “Sometimes it take knowing the Jesus Christ is all you have to realize that Jesus Christ is all you need.” Today Jesus Christ is all I have. I have nothing else and it is a good place to be. Today I challenge you to give it all up and start with a blank page. Start by recognizing that your slate has been wiped clean.
StevenBPhD lover of what works LLC
