Our Ability to Respond

With knowledge comes responsibility.

With responsibility comes choice.

With choice, comes the future.

We have within us the capacity for knowledge and wisdom.  To know, we need to ask, explore, and practice.  We gain wisdom as we use our knowledge.  We learn responsibility as we put our wisdom (heart) and knowledge (intellect) into action. 

The more responsible we are, the more choice life offers us.  We are never given more than we can handle, even though there are times we don’t believe we can handle some experiences.  We learn we are able to respond to the increased challenges.

The goal of life shapes us, and our world, in such a way that love is extended to all humanity and to all life on the earth.

We have the ability to respond with love and transform our world.

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Happiness

"Happiness is an inside job." - William Arthur Ward

Happiness is a state of being, not a moment-by-moment experience.  Happiness is the result of knowing Divinity is available.  The experience and presence of God’s love is available and within us at all times.  We only need to choose to be aware of the Presence.  This choice is made by surrendering our struggle, surrendering our fear, anxiety, and worry.  Surrender our ego and its need to be in control.  Surrender to the sense of joy that comes from experiencing the presence of God.

“To me, every hour of light and dark is a miracle.  Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.” – Walt Whitman

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Spirit

Just before Thanksgiving, our special needs daughter, Ashley, was hospitalized with pneumonia.  I felt blindsided and my world was rocked to the core.  Fear and anxiety are still the first feelings I had.  I felt that I was looking over my shoulder for the approaching darkness.  My blessing and relief came in my morning meditation and prayer.  Spirit flowed into my open heart and mind.  Spirit always counteracts fear and anxiety.  God is my source.  I remind myself that I can never be separated from my Source.  God is always with me.

To rise above my frail humanity, I must make time to be with my Source.  I start my day in meditation and prayer.  I end my day in meditation and prayer.  Throughout my day, I take time for contemplation, making conscious my oneness with God.

“If God is your world, what have you to fear?” – Emma Curtis Hopkins

Be True To Who You Are

When I make a commitment, I am in an intimate relationship with my soul. I am committed to my mission, to my sense of purpose in this life. This includes staying true to myself when things are difficult. This includes accepting my faults, mistakes, limitations, and aging. I am still learning to love myself even when others do not. I am more concerned about being integrous with my soul than I am concerned with the approval of others. This is simultaneously difficult and essential. I embrace the Divinity that resides within me. The same Divinity that radiates in all life. I am bound to my truth.

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The "still, small voice"

“The intuitive mind is a special gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and forgotten the gift.”  -Albert Einstein

All the good in my life has come from following the “still, small voice.”

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