Place Value

Seems to me impossible to underestimate the power of how we see our personal place value.  And that it's well neigh impossible to determine how others see their own worth.  So people who seem as confident as all get out can actually be pretty sold on their lack of worth, while others who seem none-to-sure of their intrinsic value can be secure in the knowledge of their value.

Some people have inflated ideas of themselves, while others seem quick to devalue what they bring to life's table.  And it is seriously hard to get an accurate bead on our place value.  What are we worth?

Do we look to the person to our right & feel small in comparison?  Do we look to those on our left & feel superior?  Or do we hold our place, without looks in either direction, drawing our sense of worth from our place, not our position?  Standing firm, making wherever that is a place of great value.

Is my place value in the millions or the ones?  My wish this Christmas season is to develop an indifference to even wondering, bending my energies instead to making my place, wherever it may be, a place of value, of contribution, of wise responsiveness, of eagerness to be more connected to the things that genuinely engage me & to let fall away the things that don't.  

My place value is determined by who I am;  who I am is not determined by my place value.  

What am I going to DO to illustrate, illuminate my place?  Begin by valuing all that is.  A good start.  Then shake off the monkey chatter & get down to living.