The Virtues Project was first introduced to me by one of my son's teachers. It is a global project designed to encourage our practice of virtues, and everyday, you can have a new virtue pop up in your email.
Today's virtue is purity. Loving to play with synonyms of synonyms, I see that purity is also about truth, honesty, clarity. The Virtues Project adds these characteristics to purity: keeping one's space orderly and cleaning up our mistakes, choosing responsibility over guilt.
There is something very empowering about taking responsibility for mistakes. For instance, I was feeling badly for something I had forgotten to do for my son. I spent some time grieving over it, feeling like a terrible mother and beating myself up with guilt.
But this aspect of purity - to take responsibility for my mistake - was a wake up call. I immediately recognized that I made a mistake, forgave myself for it, and made the necessary changes to right the wrong.
There was a very clean feeling about it. I felt no more guilt. The mistake corrected, I could move on.
Purity gives us a clean slate, a fresh start. And with that new promise, we are free to move forward.
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