Inshallah
Good Morning!
The other early morning I awoke and for some reason began playing out worrisome scenarios in my mind. I watched my anxiety increase as the thoughts marched on. "My word," I considered, "I am CREATING this unpleasant state of being by my train of thought!" Immediately I began dwelling on something that ALWAYS brings me joy...the visage of my Master. Again, I immediately felt the loathsome energy move into my heart and become light. I saw how I could play my mind like a keyboard...moving up and down the scale of emotion and feeling.
Try this very same thought sequence, unpleasant than pleasant, and I guarantee the same results..regardless of where you begin. Of course, if you have been heavily investing in negative thought, it may take a bit longer to move the energy up with lighter, happier thinking and still....it WILL happen!
Look around and begin noticing the mental states of those with whom you interact. If their penchant is cup half-empty, they will reveal that very habit on their unsmiling faces! If they are optimists...they will often sport a smile and feel much nicer to be around as well.
It IS WE who create our happy or sad lives by our thoughts and perceptions. As my Master was wont to say, "Conditions are essentially neutral." He said we were the ones that put the judgment...negative or positive..upon our life situations and events. If we can write the story, comedy or tragedy, why not begin RE-writing TODAY! Even when things are not as we would have chosen them...we can examine the situation for the good in the difference!
Today I was out on the trail and I noticed a garden statue had been put in the incorrect place. As I moved it, I realized the misplacement had shown the perfect spot for the new statue of St Anthony I had just brought up to Inshallah. I would not have thought of it if the garden angel had not been mistakenly put there. How often is that the case? That though things are not as expected, or 'as they have always been', the change or even the error has opened up vistas for new creativity and even genius to flow through!
If we MAKE UP OUR MINDS to see the good in each turn of events, we WILL see it!! The old silver lining behind every cloud adage is TRUE! It is up to us to be aware enough, and humble enough, to perceive it! Just because it didn't turn out the way WE chose it to be does NOT mean it won't actually turn out BETTER in the larger perspective! We must have the humility to allow God and the Great Ones to maneuver around our lives, setting things in even better order than we could! Indeed, it is also our Higher Selves that have a hand in all this...for it is only our egos that judge, and see limitation, in what IS.
It is time this Higher, Finer part of ourselves takes the reins and brings our minds under Benevolent Control. We CAN have the happy lives we seek....we just must allow our thoughts to have the soul's penchant for Happiness...not the ego's penchant for "what's wrong!"
I have noticed myself laughing at myself more lately...it IS comical what the ego tries to get away with. From this moment I am committing to see WHAT'S RIGHT about the way things are manifesting...to view each 'surprise' as my next opportunity to move closer to God. For as surely as I do trust GOD, as surely I must trust the way GOD is presenting this movie-life to me.
Yes...as my MIND thinketh...and I am sculpting my mind to see it's GOOD....GOD...EVERYWHERE!
Loving you always, k
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