Greatness

When Michelangelo was asked about how he manages to create such great sculptures,

he said that God had put the wonderful sculpture already inside the big pieces of marble.

All he did was hacking away some of the extra marble to expose the superb sculpture.

I heard the above story yesterday and it was compared to our own "greatness"

Our God has put some greatness in each and everyone of us: all we need to do

is to remove some of the misconceptions about ourselves to expose our true nature.

Some religious people  get upset if we call anything in humans great.

But these people are not aware that our God has put a soul in each of us,

Our God has put His love inside our heart, God has put a bit of greatness 

inside our mind, our heart, our soul. 

The problem is that we often cover it with layers of dogma, and daily unhappiness,

by negative thoughts, and greed, by perception of limitation and grudges kept.

It is time to hack away anything prohibiting the love in our heart to be shared,

It is time to hack away anything prohibiting the light in our soul to shine.

Be confident, choose to love, to share, to help, to give service.

The sculpture inside will be exposed and all will enjoy our presence,

including ourselves, everyone around us and .... surely our God as well.