Seeing with the eyes of the Heart
As February comes to a close and the series on Heart completes-it seems time for both a little inspiration and a little light heartedness. To see with the heart means to move beyond what we can see with our physical eyes. For me, it is often to see the potential for something new and great as opposed to what may be currently appearing. This has such miraculous possibilities if only we could remember to do it…
James Brown was born into extreme poverty, was abandoned by his mother before sixth grade, lived much of his childhood in his aunt’s brothel, and, when he was 15, was sent to a juvenile detention center for stealing a three-piece suit from a car.
Doesn’t sound like much of a miraculous life. But if it wasn’t for the detention center, the Godfather of Soul, the most sampled artist of all time, would have never met Bobby Byrd, who not only secured his early release from the detention center, but adopted him into his large family, invited him to sing lead for his R&B vocal group and launched his career as one of the most influential musical artists of all time.
As Brown once said” if I hadn’t stolen that suit, I’d have never found my family.”
It’s a good reminder that nothing is as it appears on the surface. The point here is not that the stolen suit led to fame, but that Bobby Byrd saw with the eyes of his heart, and it changed everything. Think of where you can do this as we try to roll towards spring…and here is a little music to inspire you – flash from the past.
