so many saints...

There are many saints in this world. Funny though, when I ‘googled’ Catholic Online there is no Saint Mario!

Anyway I believe there are many saints in this world, people that have not been canonised by any particular religion, people who may not be religious or even believe in god. Certainly they would not be found in Catholic Online but they exist. Maybe they are not holy in the religious sense but their virtue is strong and visible. A few that have crossed my path and that I have observed of their behaviour, I have written about. They have left in me a reverential awe and a sense of gratitude for the humbleness they demonstrate. Yet, how many other saints are there that I have not observed?

Each day I see things, small things that are not worthy of a mention. But when I sit back and think about what happened, if I look beyond the superficial, I see that a complete creation of beauty has occurred. It is a ‘thank you’, an acknowledgement, a small gift, verbal or otherwise, any small thing that can create a beautiful smile and a sense of warm beauty. And many people around me are being beautiful all the time. Just take the time to observe, to hear and you will notice this.

Of course lots of the negative happens around me as well, and in truth I probably create some of the negative. Yes, the negative does happen. But there is no need to empower it; it has enough power on its own. When I embrace the universe and know that I am at one with all around me it includes the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’. It includes being at one with the victims as well as the perpetrators, the light as well as the dark.

The saint is one who accepts the negative and yet still gives without expectation, still gives with humility and without making a scene of giving. The saint accepts that some wrong is done in the course of living in this consciousness, but forgives, others and himself, and flows. The wrong does not grow in obsession, as an obsession; it is done, it is recognised and acknowledged and one moves on.

But joy and contentment come from Beauty. Our life is to be content, to be in harmony and filled with Beauty. So act with Beauty as a consequence. The saint gives and in the manner she or he gives, Beauty is created. That is Beauty which expresses emotion and which is felt when a saint is in action.

Yes there are many saints around me. I thank you for the love you spread, for the warmth you deliver and for the Beauty you demonstrate. Continue, be so and let me aspire…

In Beauty let it be.