STAYING IN THE LIGHT

Sometimes we are going along, everything is fine we are happy as clams, then somebody does something to hurt our feelings. We don't remember we have forgiveness at our disposal, we hang onto the hurt with righteous indignation. We know we can let it go,  but we won't, we want the other to appreciate what they have done. We can waste minutes or hours or even days living in misery. Have you ever done this?

What if the person who hurt your feelings had no intention of doing so? Even if they did, how is your suffering going to help the situation? Sometime we hang onto pain as if it is a special jewel. We weave a bizarre fabric of rationalizations for feeling bad and not dealing with it.

Hurt feelings are machinations of the ego attempting to control the situation and your decisions. Sure, someone else, temporarily ruled by their ego, may hurt our feelings. But to accept the invitation to be angry or feel less of ourselves is a kind of madness we don't need. We invite all kinds of negativity into our life when we justify being angry at someone. We don't need to do that.

We are surrounded by love. The solution to all interactions, painful or otherwise, are provided by spirit, on a moment by moment basis. Hurt feelings are past injuries brought into the present. We need to ask ourselves why this hurt our feelings. What experience from the past did we bring to it? Who do we need to forgive from the past? When the past has been given up and all forgiven; injuries in the present are momentarily bothersome and it is easy to see that is not our problem. The perpetrator is calling for love and needs our understanding and forgiveness.

As we go through life we can imagine being in a beam of light. A light that provides us with all necessary answers. A beam of light that lights the way and keeps our eyes open. Our egos are on the alert for fear. Fear bumps us out of the light. When we feel the light diminishing, we should be calm and ask the spirit for direction. If we listen, the answer will nudge us back into the light. The ego supplies all that noise in our minds. That obsessive chatter, filled with judgement, is to be ignored. There are no answers there, only more questions that lead nowhere. The ego is full of questions; it has no answers. 

We are one and as individuals we walk with Spirit that is One. We are always safe. We are always protected. We need only follow the path laid out before us. It takes a leap to trust the Source that created us. We have learned to be skeptical of a benevolent universe. Trust, and thankfulness for that trust, have great rewards. However, we do need to get over the distrust we have of Source.

When we make a commitment to walk in the light, all our little mistrusts will arise. We will need to deal with them as they come up. As we lay our mistrusts and fears aside, our consciousness expands, we begin to see more and before long, we won't remember what we were afraid of.

Let us walk in the light and beam out loving energy for all to appreciate.

Love and Peace,  Gregg