Recently we found out our entire home has to be replumbed. Thankfully we can afford to do it, but the whole ordeal involves days and days of work and several holes in our walls. And to add insult to injury, we also had an emergency electrical situation in which our electric meter started burning. Thankfully we caught it in time and the electric company was able to fix the situation, before we ended up with a devastating electrical house fire.
Ironically, my husband and I had recently done a lot of yard work and we were smugly stating to ourselves just how great our home was looking, with its fresh paint job and cleaned roof. This whole situation got me to thinking a lot about how no matter how great things look on the outside, if the insides aren’t right, this will eventually seep out into the open. We see it all of the time – the billionaires who cheat on their wives (with spies, no less), the family social media influencers who end up in divorce, the priests who end up being abusers, the preachers who end up being crooks, buildings collapsing in major cities, amazing inventions that end up being fake, etc. etc. etc.
We can’t always trust what we see with our eyes. Our intuition comes from deep inside of us. It is usually the best meter to what is really going on. And at a personal level, if we don’t fix what is going on inside of us, it will inevitably seep into our outside lives, affecting our health, our relationships, our faith and our peace, and least importantly, our carefully constructed “images” will be decimated. We humans spend a lot of time working on our individual overall “image” and then carefully projecting that desired image out in to the world, through various mediums, but facades are flimsy. If there isn’t a real, true foundation holding everything up securely, the mask eventually always falls to the floor.
“The truth always comes out in the worsh (translation – ‘wash’).” – my grandmother
“Words that spill from your mouth reveal your inner character. Have a taste of it before you spit them out.” – Larcylouize
“A healthy outside starts from the inside.” – Robert Urich
“Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes.” – Carl Jung
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.” – Anne Lamott
Are you passing on love or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.