Ever play
basketball, wearing a football uniform? Ugly! We do the same
with life.
When we
view people and things outside of ourselves as our source of
happiness, and also as our source of upset, we then have to
keep juggling and maneuvering them all to keep providing for
us.
There's
an entirely different game going on in town, and our using the
wrong rules and wearing the wrong equipment keeps us from scoring!
EVERYTHING
"OUT THERE" has a gift to give us...a gift in the
form of teaching us WHO
WE ARE. And from that comes our Joy.
"I
don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off.
I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
Claire
Booth Luce
So, why
do you reckon God made "out there's" and "in
here's"? Why
didn't He just make everything in the same spot?
PROPS, I
suppose. Props to SUPPORT us in Becoming everything we are.
I see life
continually hurling to me messages and insights and lessons,
some of which I receive. Others I miss. When I'm busy trying
to hide out from or manipulate things "out there",
I miss the message or lesson. When my partner is upset at me
and I'm busy trying to calm her down, I miss the message about
me. When I'm denying that I lost the job for any reason that
I had power over, I miss the gift of how to become better. When
I avoid the pain of rejection I miss the opportunity to build
my character and self-worth.
WHEN
I WON'T HEAR THE MESSAGE ABOUT ME,
I HAVE NO INFORMATION TO ADVANCE ME.
Out there
is simply a shower of gifts for my taking. And my trying to
fix things, fight things or flee from them keeps me from getting
the valuable messages.
When
you hold life as continually having a GIFT for you, you then
find yourself relaxed, without judgment, and continually finding
and learning the Lesson vs. continually trying to control
or avoid or manipulate or FIGHT. And in that state of RESISTANCE
we stay stuck & sluggish as our energy levels deplete,
and as our experience of Joy and Love diminish.
The good
news is, NOTHING IS HERE TO PUNISH YOU NOR TO HOLD YOU BACK.
Everything is here as your SUPPORT, just like at Christmas time,
it's YOUR choice whether or not to Receive the Gift. The Miracle
takes place when you accept it and Hold "out there"
as your Buddy (regardless of what it looks like), and you begin
to learn & mend & grow from it...as you Let Go and Flow
WITH life vs. AGAINST it.
Notice your
response to people and things. Notice when you REACT.
And notice how much that Reactive mode keeps you at war with
life. A war that you'll never win by the way. Friends, if you're
fighting life, STOP and try making peace with it! Gosh, when
you're in a hole, stop digging.
As you notice
what your REACTIVE SELF DOESN'T BRING you, as you notice how
it keeps you in a state of unrest, then begin to make new and
conscious choices. Live more Consciously vs. Reactively. Become
more Receptive to "out there" rather than so Guarded
against it. Everything is here to Serve you. Take the gift.
This
is an extremely Useful and Power-filled way to hold life by
the way. Learn to view everything and everyone in your path
as HOLDING A BIG WRAPPED GIFT FOR YOU. And view yourself either
pushing the gift away with a clinched heart or receiving it
and all of its benefits to you.
Let "out
there" IN, not as your source of Joy, but as your Teacher.
And as you do, let it begin to hone and form you, and let your
new awareness bring the joy you seek from your New Choices.
God speaks thru your environment. Quiet the noise from your
judgments
and manipulations
so you can hear His voice.
