CONTINUING THE WORK

Usually I am finished with my blog by now [2:38PM]. The Morning was filled with unexpected events and challenges. All good. Yes, life has a mind of it's own and it keeps coming.

I think it is fun to speculate on how we contribute to the creation of life's events. It counters the danger of feeling like a victim to understand our hand [or mind] in the happenings of our life.

Feeling like a victim is a no-way-out situation. It creates a helplessness which brings more negativity in our lives. I shouldn't say no-way-out. There is always a way. We can always revisit a situation and get a new take on it. Forgiveness of ourselves and others is the surest release.

We all need to work on ourselves, but we needn't be dire about it. We should hold an ideal in our mind for ourselves, but we can't take ourselves so seriously that we judge ourselves by comparison. Judgement of self is a condemnation that helps no one.

Our little self or separated self never sees the big picture. We can have high spiritual thoughts that come from our convictions, but we are going to have little self thoughts too. That is okay. As long as we are in bodies this duality will exist.

We are discovering what thoughts are destructive and we are learning to dismiss them before they take hold and breed more. Fear is at the base of all our destructive thinking. We have had a lifetime of absorbing both big and little fears from our families, culture, experience, education etc. We don't shed them overnight.

When we are tortured by negative thoughts, it helps to know what fear we hold that supports the thoughts. Sometimes we don't want to know. We need to be gentle with ourselves. We need to be loving and considerate of ourselves. This is a big undertaking. Most of us don't have Gurus and Ashrams to guide and comfort us. We are doing it on our own which traditionally had the help of some spiritual surroundings, whether it be Gurus, Lamas, Monks or Shaman.

Many folks are getting together in groups to give each other guidance. I think that would be very beneficial. There is an energy on the Earth right now, so even if you are searching yourself by yourself there is help. There is a love around us that is just waiting for an invitation to embrace us. I pause for a minute in my typing and I can feel it like a warm blanket of Love. I can't say I know what Oneness feels like but that word comes to my mind.

We continue the work on ourselves. We expand our light and share it with those around us. Our light will circle the globe and eventually encapsulate everyone.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Love and Peace, Gregg