Have you not often thought, deep in a crevasse of your mind, that you have been at fault? If someone has been rude, you think you are to blame. If someone disappoints you, you consider yourself responsible. Of course, fault, rudeness, blame are ideas of yours. In that sense, you are responsible. In another sense, each train goes on its own track, and you are not responsible. Do not second-guess yourself as much as you do.
Paint spilled. What does blame have to do with it? Wipe up the spill and get on with what you were doing.
Do not divide your daily life into compartments of what you could have said or could have done that would have avoided this or that paint spill. Perhaps nothing could have avoided it. In any case, the paint spilled. Go on from there.
Do not harbor recrimination. Certainly do not harbor them against yourself. If someone lashes out at you, must you pick up where they left off and throttle yourself as well?
Life is not a little thing, but all that transpires is little. All that transpires is little in comparison to you. And yet you let occurrences faze you. You rate occurrences in life according to an internal voltage meter of yours. Better to live life rather than rate it. Five stars today, one tomorrow, back and forth. If you must rate the performance of your life, consider that the score is evened out. Life has been allotted to you, and you have all of it. You have as much life as anyone. Do not compare one day from the next nor your life to another's.
You have your own cart to pull. Perhaps someone else has a carriage. You think you know that a carriage is better, but a cart has its good points as well. The greatest victory could be a downfall. The greatest loss, a blessing. From where you sit, how do you know?
Do not label anything. Do not, for instance, label poverty a penalty. You do not know that it is. Do not label. Do not label at all. If you must label your life, label it good. It is your life you are talking about. Do not bad-mouth your life. Think well of it, and speak well of it. Carry it before you as the great gift it is. Yes, you may label your life a gift. Certainly, it is a gift, a gift on loan for a lifetime. It is a loan given in good faith. Approve of it.
Limits on Earth are limiting. Labels are limits. Raise the prison bars that limit your life. Erase the bars you put up. They are fiction, beloveds. All restrictions are fiction. Unboundedness is Truth.
You are freewheeling. You are freedombound. Do you not desire freedom, and are you not going in that direction? If you must wrap yourself up in something, wrap yourself up in freedom.
You are free to love. You have carte blanche with love. It is all yours to do with as you will. What do you will? Will that My Will be done, for My Will is love. Let love be done. Let the light of love in your heart shine out forevermore, blatantly, brazenly, bright light of love destined to light the world. Goodness knows, the world is begging for your light. Do not withhold it. Let your light follow its destiny. My children's lights on Earth are stepping-stones to Heaven. Christ was light, and light is the way. There is no other way.
If your light has been a secret, now is the time to reveal it.