{"id":2363,"date":"2010-10-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2010\/10\/mindful-monday-the-cracked-pot.html"},"modified":"2010-10-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:00:00","slug":"mindful-monday-the-cracked-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/10\/mindful-monday-the-cracked-pot.html","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Monday: The Cracked Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love this tale from India, retold here by Mary Dessein. What a beautiful way of thinking about our illness, frustrating life situations, or crosses we bear.<\/em><\/p>\n

A water-bearer carries two large pots on a yoke across his shoulders up the hill from the river to his master’s house each day. One has a crack and leaks half its water out each day before arriving at the house. The other pot is perfect and always delivered a full portion of water after the long walk from the river.<\/p>\n

Finally, after years of arriving half-empty and feeling guilty, the cracked pot apologized to the water-bearer. It was miserable. “I’m sorry that I couldn’t accomplish what the perfect pot did.”<\/p>\n

The water-bearer says, “What do you have to apologize for?”<\/p>\n

“After all this time, I still only deliver half my load of water. I make more work for you because of my flaw.”<\/p>\n

The man smiled and told the pot. “Take note of all the lovely flowers growing on the side of the path where I carried you. The flowers grew so lovely because of the water you leaked. There are no flowers on the perfect pot’s side.”<\/p>\n

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