Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™

I rarely quote others, but this is one of my favorite quotes. Macrina Weiderkher was a Benedictine monastic of St. Scholastica Monastery.

Most aren’t even aware of this, but we believe that if we look within, we will find the truth about ourselves, which will be too terrible to behold. Furthermore, we often believe that to think this of ourselves is humility and to believe in our beauty is arrogant.

On the contrary, what we actually find when we plunge into the inner depths is incomprehensibly beautiful. It’s not arrogance that sees this; we had nothing to do with the beauty that we are. It’s not something we made ourselves into. We had nothing to do with it. It’s what we were created to be…and forgot.

We are like a computer created to be a computer, but mistakenly believed it could change itself into a chair. The computer can’t actually change itself into a chair, but it can believe it is a chair and now must wake up and remember what it has always been. Just like that computer that was created to compute, you were created to be utterly beautiful.

I invite you to take this in today in whatever measure you’re willing to accept. Ponder it, allow it to wash over you, and show you what you are and always have been. (Have tissues handy.)

You are beautiful, and there is simply nothing you can do about it.