"When you stop expecting people to be perfect,
you can like them for who they are."
Donald Miller
Friends and relations were placed up on a pedestal. I would marvel at their brilliance and dance in the reflection of their bountiful glow. As they were human, however, they would eventually fall from grace in the smallest of ways; and I would be dumbfounded.
Over the years, I began to realize I saw people in their spiritual light and not as they were in their daily human suit. I would sense sacred goodness and expectations excelled. When human frailty was observed, I would feel emotionally disillusioned. The flaw, of course, was my own.
I still view people in spiritual light, but remain aware of human roles they play ... primarily my teachers. My triggers ignited by others are my issues waiting to be resolved. I now can look beyond the human blemish and discover the sacred pearl.
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