Nothing Wasted
What if failure is an illusion?
I came across a Masterclass by Herbie Hancock that helped me flip the script on my relationship with failure.
Jazz is an act of musical improv. A song may have a thematic melody, however the art of jazz follows the flow and allows any note that appears to be worked into the song as if it were intentional, by creating a chord around it after it is played.
As a piano player, I was fascinated. A funky black key accidently hit by my moving finger could be okay?
No note is wasted.
In life, nothing is wasted.
All things are being made new, friends.
- The upset you encountered.
- The horrific disaster that was witnessed.
- Yesterday’s mistake with a client
All of it is being redeemed each day.
If you choose to believe all is being redeemed each day, you will be freed of the illusion of failure.
To your freedom,
💛 Liz
p.s. I decided to play around with the same idea with this meditative art piece. I picked a handful of random colors and decided that for each sunflower petal, I would try to break the painting with a new odd color. I couldn’t.
Even at the end when I looked at the words I painted and realized my words “Nothing is Wasted” was replaced by a hymn lyric “Nothing is Lost”, I still didn’t break the painting. I love it.
