Should you choose to accept it...

The Accolade, Edmund B. Leighton, c. 1901

I assign you to be a beautiful, good,

kind, awakened, soulful person,

a true work of art as we say,

ser humano, a true human being.

In a world filled with so much darkness,

such a soul shines like gold;

can be seen from a far distance;

is dramatically different.

Want to help?

Show your deepest most divine self to the world.

There is nothing more rare, more strange, more needed.

Why would you wait? Not worthy? Oh piffle.

Not ready? Okay, so when? Next lifetime?

Don't be silly with me about this.

Inferiority complex?

Okay, let me put it this way to you:

you're not good enough to think you're not good enough.

Have you forgotten that you made promises

to your Beloved before you ever came to earth?

The time to fulfill these is truly now.

You want to cease feeling helpless,

and you want to help the aching world?

Serve someone and something.

Everyone on earth serves someone and something.

This means being your truest self now,

fulfilling the promises you made to heaven long ago.

Anything you do from the soulful self

will help lighten the burdens of the world.

Anything.

You have no idea what the smallest word,

the tiniest generosity can cause to be set in motion.

Be outrageous in forgiving.

Be dramatic in reconciling.

Be off the charts in kindness.

In whatever you are called to, strive to be devoted to it

in all aspects large and small.

Fall short? Try again.

Mastery is in increments, not in leaps.

Be brave, be fierce, be visionary.

Mend the parts of the world that are "within your reach."

To live this way is the most dramatic gift you can ever give to the world.

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Clarissa Pinkola-Estes, Your Assignment

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