It's raining. It is rather cold and gloomy. These Fall days can be cozy and cuddly, as we sit inside looking out, or they can be dark and forbidding, depending on our mood. Either way, they are a forerunner of things to come. We have snow in our forecast for Wednesday night. I doubt that it will amount to much.
When we do have a mood, that is less than what we would like; sometimes it feels like we can't change it. It can feel like we are doomed to suffer. No matter how bad it seems; we can change it. As small a thing, as a telephone call to a friend, can pull us out of the rut. When we are deep in the rut, we cannot see over the side well enough, to see what we could do.
It is very difficult to see that we create our reality when we are up to our eyebrows in muck. We certainly don't want anybody to remind us that we may be involved in the making of the experience. Oh no!
Yet, where can we start, but with ourselves? Isn't it more comforting to know that our experience is our creation, rather than, it is handed to us by a capricious, outside force we have no control over? Sure things do happen outside our influence; our car breaks down, a storm blows a tree down on our house, our kids get sick, etc. etc. But how we react to the things that come to us- is us. Ten people will react in ten different ways; each creating a different outcome and feeling about themselves.
I don't know all the parameters that drive these ten people. I do think there is a battle going on in the mind of humankind between love and fear. It affects each individual as well as globally. I have discussed many times how fear is used globally to keep us under control. Turn on the news; fear is used in everything: weather reporting, migration, crime, world conflict; almost nothing is devoid of the inoculation of fear.
Our minds are trained to be afraid. There is a great difference, in being sick and knowing we will get over it and being sick and afraid we won't. When we are up to our eyebrows in muck, and we say to ourselves, "there is no way out." It is quite different from saying, "there has to be a way out."
Much in life boils down to our attitude. One attitude rejects fear and attracts love, another can do the opposite.
Is it possible for us to be so alert, that we can reject all fear thoughts? Fear thoughts are very sneaky, and they can bring their friends, and before we know it, we can be shaking in our boots. But, shaking in our boots, isn't the worst thing that can happen. When we are shaking in our boots, we know we are afraid. A worse situation, is when the fear disguises itself, as judgement, prejudice, unwarranted conclusions etc. We may go on, not realizing we are driven by fear.
Individually and globally, we are torn between the attraction of love and fear. I use the word attraction purposely. Our minds have been made very attractive to fear. We can attract fear thoughts like a magnet attracts metal filings. Consider, worry! What does our mind do, when our adolescent children, are out too late?
Love and fear have always existed on this planet. The Earth, being created by Love, is essentially love. The Earth is surrounded by love. When our egos gave up their proper function, of protecting us in our separate bodies; they took on a life of their own and attempted to dominate the spirit [our true being]. Fear was the only weapon, the ego could use, to convince us, to deny the existence of our Spirit {Oneness}. When an ego is dysfunctional, it tends to dominate other egos. Fear is always the method of choice.
We exist in Love, but we are surrounded by fear thoughts. They are like a swarm of voracious pest, that are waiting for the opportunity to bite. It doesn't take, much of an invitation, for them to attack, that is why we need to keep our minds free. So much, of what invites this swarm of pests to attack, is in the past; that is why our mentors have advised us to stay in the moment and give up the past.
Laughter, smiles, happiness, in general, keeps the swarm at bay. The more light that shines out of us, the smaller the swarm becomes. The more we love the fewer the pests will be. Outside of this fear created illusion, these pests do not exist. There is only love. We will see that, when we give up all fear.
We are powerful, creative beings, we must be aware of what occupies our minds. Don't worry! We can't lose. Fear is no match for Love.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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