{"id":40530,"date":"2022-08-19T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40530"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T02:09:57","slug":"not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40530","title":{"rendered":"Your Body Is Not Your Masterpiece – Your Life Is"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. They aren\u2019t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it\u2019s all you\u2019ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it\u2019s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What is relevant is that YOU HAVE A PAINTBRUSH which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life \u2014 where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.<\/div>\n
Your body is not your offering. It\u2019s just a really amazing instrument which you can use to create your offering each day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Don\u2019t curse your paintbrush. Don\u2019t sit in a corner wishing you had a different paintbrush. You\u2019re wasting time. You\u2019ve got the one you got. Be grateful, because without it you\u2019d have nothing with which to paint your life\u2019s work. Your life\u2019s work is the love you give and receive \u2014 and your body is the instrument you use to accept and offer love on your soul\u2019s behalf. It\u2019s a system.<\/div>\n
We are encouraged to obsess over our instrument\u2019s SHAPE \u2014 but our body\u2019s shape has no effect on it\u2019s ability to accept and offer love for us. Just none. Maybe we continue to obsess because as long we keep wringing our hands about our paintbrush shape, we don\u2019t have to get to work painting our lives. Stop fretting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The truth is that all paintbrush shapes work just fine \u2014 and anybody who tells you different is trying to sell you something. Don\u2019t buy. Just paint.<\/div>\n
No wait \u2014 first, stop what you are doing and say THANK YOU to your body \u2014 right now. Say THANK YOU to your eyes for taking in the beauty of sunsets and storms and children blowing out birthday candles and say THANK YOU to your hands for writing love letters and opening doors and stirring soup and waving to strangers and say THANK YOU to your legs for walking you from danger to safety and climbing so many mountains for you. Then pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU. Paint this day beautiful, bold, wild & free.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Glennon Doyle, Momastary<\/div>\n
Art by The Ronald West Gallery<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. They aren\u2019t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is. Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it\u2019s all you\u2019ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it\u2019s your … <\/p>\n

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