words into actions

I saw this yesterday and like it-

Growing into the Truth We Speak

Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God's love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions with great conviction and great humility, we may gradually grow into the truth we speak. As long as we know that our lives always will speak louder than our words, we can trust that our words will remain humble.

Henri Nouwen

In my counselling, we talk of 'directions' where we remind ourselves of where we are, or want to be even if we don't fully feel it yet. So I might say something like 'I'm doing the best I can' which has truth within it, even if I might not totally believe it all the time. The more I remind myself of this truth, the more I can believe it. I've been called a hypocrite before now and it's not nice. I think all of us are trying to be who we'd like to be And I'm going to keep on encouraging myself and others to keep on going for it, even when we know we ain't perfect!

I have a lot of dashing today but there will be lovely people, food and singing - yay!
Enjoy being your wonderful self today :-)