It is 6.6 degrees F. It snowed last night, an inch and a half or so. Not enough to plow my one-tenth of a mile driveway, but enough to do some path shoveling. I don't clear paths to the barn or chicken coop, I just trod it down and my toboggan, that I use to carry the jugs of water, helps make a decent path. I like to clear the walkway to the garage.
Everyday is different and life keeps coming to us. Let life be. Just be grateful for it. We are here to learn. Life presents us with what we want to learn. Sometimes we resent life's presentations. We say, "why me"? "How come we have to go through this again?" Do we really want to whine at a benevolent universe?
Once we realize that our attitudes create the pain we feel, the obstacles that life brings us, are surmountable. When we get to the position of being grateful for the opportunity to learn love and to grow, we will find our path smooths out.
We are here to learn and the universe, in cooperation with our higher selves, provides the opportunity. Trying to control life just causes stress; it interferes with learning rather than facilitates it.
We have a lot of rough edges. We grew up in a world of power dominance and control and now we are making the wish to fit into a world of unconditional love. We must see that under the best of circumstances we have much to learn. We are teaching ourselves by bringing these events to us. Sure it seems like these things happen out of the blue; in actuality we are calling them to us.
How about worry? How many of us worry needlessly? We learned from a purely psychological viewpoint that worry has no value. Then when we become more spiritually aware, we find that worry is not only useless, it robs us of our peace and causes the light that we otherwise would be shining on the world to attenuate. Then to top it off, we realize that if we create with our thoughts, we are more likely to bring on what we worry about. Holy cow! Isn't that enough to keep us from worrying?
No, apparently not. We find ourselves worrying on occasion. We have something more to learn. We need to accept life as it comes. We need to ask ourselves, without judgement, "why am I worrying?" What do I have to learn? Am I being controlling? Don't I really believe in a benevolent universe? Don't I really believe in Unconditional Love? Many of us will find the root cause of our worry is not loving ourselves enough. We feel at some level that we deserve punishment. We don't need to figure out why. Guilt is imbued by our culture. Guilt is dangerous nonsense. We need to focus on loving ourselves.
When we truly love ourselves, we won't be able to imagine any bad thing happening. Nothing can disturb our peace. We know that the love that surrounds us is something we not only deserve, it is ours and only we can disturb it.
Don't worry. Wrap yourself in a blanket of love. You are entitled to it.
Happy Friday everyone.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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