How have I changed or grown recently? How is that impacting the world around me?

Spending 24 hrs./7 days a week basically alone makes it hard to ignore my shortcomings and my strengths. The stillness, the time for reflection, makes me vulnerable and vulnerability is necessary to grow in self-awareness. Self awareness is the key that opens the door. You can’t give away something you don’t possess.You can’t expect to be an instrument of positive change in the world if you are not willing to be an instrument of positive change in yourself. Life is process. The possibility of growth is unlimited. Today’s quote by Charles Eisenstein speaks truth to me: “Ultimately, work on self is inseparable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well.” As I pondered today’s question and quote, I found myself on you tube listening to various folks singing the St Francis prayer: It’s become my mantra in these challenging times.
Make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy
O Divine Master, grant that I may
Not so much seek to be consoled as to console
To be understood, as to understand
To be loved, as to love with all my soul