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For a Reason

“Don’t push it.”  When have you heard these words before?  There are other ways to get past a wall when you come to it.  You can attempt to climb it, you can continue pushing in an attempt to knock it down, or you can go around it.  But there is another way.  You can sit before the wall with an attitude of gratitude, and wait.  If the wall is still there when you close your eyes and open them, then close them again.  Now, with eyes closed, relax.  Ask to be shown why the wall is there.  Ask to be shown what lies on the other side.  Ask to be shown an easier, wall-free route with an easier path.  Who are you asking?  Those with a greater perspective than your own who can see beyond the wall.  You are not alone on your path, you know.  If you continue to run into that wall and you continue trying to push it, someone is trying to get your attention … doing you a favor, actually, by blocking your way.  So don’t push it.  The wall has something to say.

Why Wait?

If you knew that at the end of your physical life there would be a life review, what would you do differently from moment to moment?  If you knew there were consequences for every thought and action, how would you think and act?  If you knew that you will feel the full effect of what you do and say to others, would this cause you to pause?  All of this is true.  You are responsible to no other than the Self for what you do.  You are judged by no other, but instead become judge and jury through this review in which you are shown and in which you feel cause and effect simultaneously.

Perhaps you would make higher choices if you fast forwarded to this life review from moment to moment here and now.  Perhaps you would make the highest choices—coming from a place of Love always—if you allowed yourself to feel cause and effect now, in an ongoing review of this now-moment here.  Why wait? 

Listening

Oh, that place in the center of you is such a teacher, talking to you like a loud speaker.  But do you listen?  At times it twinges and gives you a tightened feeling.  You see, it does not always speak in words, but the message is clear:  “Do not go near that idea.  It is not in your best interest or in the interest of the Whole.”  And it speaks to you with no feeling whatsoever.  It is that lack of angst, the complete absence of constriction that says, “Go ahead with your plan.  It is in your best interest and will serve the Whole well.”  That feeling is peace.  Come to look for it before you make a decision or take action.  Rarely will it steer you wrong.

Free!

Take back your power.  “But I have not given it away!” you say, and we ask you to take a closer look.  Are there things that you would like to do, but you are afraid you might look foolish, afraid you might fail?  Then you have given away your power to your fears—to those you fear might judge you.  Others hold no power over you, only that which you so easily grant to them.  If this is a revelation to you—how  easily you have allowed others to dictate your actions and achievements and feelings--then the solution lies in the same place:  your thoughts. 

There is only one Power, and that is Consciousness.  The reason those who are achieving their dreams are successful is because they do not allow the individual consciousness of others to overpower the greatest power there is:  Love.  What does Love have to do with it?  Everything.  It is that which spurs you to service, to doing the best you can for the greater good.  When that kind of selfless love fuels your efforts, you care not what others think.  Repeat after us:  “I AM free of what others think of me.”

Until Now

Until now you have been unable to do something you wanted to do.  Until now you have failed.  Why is that?  What have you been telling yourself until now?  Who have you been blaming your lack upon until now?  What has to change before you stop saying “until now?”  If the answer to this question focuses on someone outside of yourself, then prepare yourself to continue saying, “until now.”  If you are willing to look deeply at your thoughts and actions and make a change, then you are ready to adopt a new phrase, looking at the past as you say:  “until then.”  And now?  And now the fun begins.

Obstacles

Obstacles in your path, such blessings they are.  Do you curse the tree that falls and blocks your way, or do you raise your eyes skyward, laugh and say, “Thank you,” for the turn your life must now take and the new choices you get to make?  See the blessings as they unfold and rejoice every moment as you grow old.  Life is one great adventure, unfolding not always as you foresee it with your ground-level sight.  That tree that fell across your path at night could be your greatest gift, causing you to stop and shift.  “Halt!  Don’t go there,” it says quite kindly.  “Do not move forward, oh so blindly.”  This obstacle is rather clear.  Others may not seem so dear, but each twist and turn your life takes has reason.  There is growth in every season.  So curse not the changes in your plans and the flexibility your life demands, but smile and say, “Ah yes, a bump in the road I did not expect.  The unseen reasons I now choose to respect.

The Way

How easy it is to give away your power.  You give it to doubts.  You give it to fears.  You give it to the mirrors.  This giving away is a habit, and for most humans is far easier than stepping into your Power.  The latter comes with awareness that inside of you is a place-state that knows nothing of doubt, or fear, or insecurity.  It compares itself with nothing and no one.  It is simply peace, and love, and pure being.  How can you compare this with any opposite, when there is no such state as non-being, no opposite to true divine love?  You may spend your life coming to fully occupy this state and space.  The doubts, fears, and insecurities are the signposts that read “Turn around.  Home is the other Way.”

Beyond Whispers

The whispers in your mind oft go unheard, for you have programmed yourself not to hear them.  “That cannot be true,” you say when the little voice softly tells you the things you most need to hear.  And so you go in search of things outside yourself that you think will make you feel better.  The last thing you want to do is listen to your own thoughts.  But this whisper of which we speak comes from a self beyond the one in pain.  If you will only listen and believe its words of love and encouragement, the voice will rise above a whisper to shout until you will want to shout with joy and share with the world the one great truth:  “All That is is Love, and I AM That!”

Of the Self

“They have their own life to live.”  When have you heard this?  When have you experienced this?  You give your concern, and care, and love to others, and at times they reject you.  This is part of the human experience.  It goes back to the instinct of survival, to think only of the self.  Few think of others more than the self or share the same passions.  When you can come to terms with this very human trait, you will find peace.  Yes, keep on loving and caring, but do not take it personally when you are shunned or ignored.  It is not about you.  This is the lesson that others have yet to learn as well.  There is only one Mind, one great Oversoul, one Consciousness.  Until all realize this, the best advice is to simply be Love and be at peace with that.

... as the Mountain Stream

Purity.  What does this mean?  Picture a beautiful mountain stream, its water flowing over and between the rocks.  You can see all the way to the bottom of this crystal clear water.  You can drink it with no worries of becoming ill.  This is purity.  If you were to look at your motives for doing something, how would they look as compared to this water in the stream whose Source is so mighty?  Would there be a bit of sediment in your thought that clouds the stream of consciousness just a bit?  Let it settle to the bottom, for all humans have the potential of getting a big cloudy from time to time.  It happens, but when you find yourself stirring up the bottom, it is time to let the water settle a bit and return to the purity of the Source.