Revise Until You Become

Wanna know something? I wrote the most magnificent post yesterday that kept me smiling from start to finish. It was absolutely perfect, and it made me proud that I could create something so entertaining. It was beautifully crafted and yet effortlessly poignant. I was pleased. But I neglected to hit save. I did not commit to it, and as a result, when there was an error with the system, my work was lost, and so was I. I spent some time trying to retrieve my lost thoughts, but it was all to no avail, and ultimately, I had to admit defeat.

But today, here I am, back at it again, and that was the point of my lost post: Revise until you become. Learn from yesterday: keep what works and revise the rest. Which brings to my next point: What are your thoughts on becoming your own masterpiece?

Let me tell share something…

The other day when I was talking to my best friend, she and I were discussing a huge breakthrough that I had experienced, and while we talked, I thought about just how lucky I am to have her in my life. Y’all want to know why? Because she loves me! And I am not going to spend time qualifying her love by saying that she loves me “unconditionally” because it is not necessary to do so. She simply put, loves me. And I will tell you why I think she does, and here it is: She loves me because I know that I am flawed person. She loves that me because I acknowledge those flaws, and seek to overcome them. To bring it altogether, she loves me because I do not stop trying to become a better me, and y’all, it is her love that makes me feel like I can become my own Masterpiece.

What do you think it takes to create a Masterpiece? Well, I looked it up, and it takes an artist who is willing to make a lot of revisions to her work, and while some changes are easy, many are difficult and will take time, but in the end, these are the changes that prove to be extremely integral to the end result coming out the way she envisioned it.

I hope I have not lost you. On the road to revision, we make choices that move us from a life of mediocrity and stagnance to one of refinement and joy. It is the same reason that we ask God to keep us on the Potter’s Wheel, continuously molding us until we become who He intended us to be all along, and that is great, but we must keep in mind, that the work is not His alone. It is our work as well. And that my dear Dreamer is the point of it all. We were not given life to be inactive and complacent. We were made to live and grow; to revise, cut, and revise again until we chisel away all the parts that do not represent who we are or who we want to be. And by doing so, we show others how to do the same in their lives.

And again, I am smiling. And again, I am pleased with yet another post, but this time, I have made the conscious choice to save my work along the way, even after each edit, and that is the way we should live our lives: as Masterpieces in the Making, Revising Until We Become.

To Cynthia, my best friend, thank you for allowing me to simply be. You have no idea how much you inspire me to become my own Masterpiece.