What WILL You DO?

   “What I’m having a hard time believing,” someone writes, “is that I can somehow stop (repeating my mistakes) through my own effort, i.e. through ‘will power’ or affirmations or many of the other recommendations that I’ve been given by people who’ve written a similar philosophy to what I’m hearing from you.”

This blog entry is for those who have, at some time, decided to ask the question, “Is all of what I have right now all that will ever be?  Is this the happiest I will ever be?”

This blog entry is for those who have stated some version of the phrase, “There has got to be a better way!”

Life, real life…is all about discovering what works and what does not work. Its about spiritual survival.  Wading through the muddied waters of delusional versions or spirits of our Self in a purposeful journey toward realizing our greatness and the place we share with The One (God) within you and I.

Whether you know it or not, when you ask genuinely a question about how life works, you are presently doing that which you simply can not believe you have mastery over. Your choices to learn is YOU exercising your capacity to discover what is real, honest, true, and good….and how you fit in to how life works.  This is the HOW you make your life happier than it presently may not be.

You see, we are not really taught how life works. We are given the old teachings of the past to repeat over and over before we discover the world is not flat.  We are taught over and over to eat and eat and eat until we grow so large our closets are filled with stretchy sweat pants, XXXX shirts, and shorts.

If you are here reading this, it is for the simple reason you’ve found the affirmation for which you’d been looking.  You are in a very unique place for discovering the deeply passionate relationship only you share (in your place and time) with The One (God) in you.

I applaud your decision to will yourself to learn what works in love and life. You’d made a decision to set aside, at least for the moment, some of what your past had taught you as real (with regard to God)…and you have set out on a journey (physical or spiritual) to discover what works and what does not in the life you share with others on a similar journey.

Some, whether you know it or not, would say your choice was pure holiness…..

This choice you have made to learn is what makes you so damn brilliant. You have chosen to break the cycle of your past by choosing to learn more about your extraordinary present. The closer you move toward living in the present, the moment, the NOW…the more you will appreciate the full capacity of what you are capable.

Will you continue to repeat over and over behaviors that will bring you down?….yep! Eventually, those down moments will bring your heart to a place where you will ask again some version of the phrase, “there has got to be a better way!”   What WILL you do?  Listen for the answer?  Or not!

If your willingness to discover a better way is genuine, then the better way will be where you will find yourself; a little closer to living in the present. 

Lately, so much has been made of “thinking one self happy.” It is as if a simple click of the finger will bring you the happiness you seek.  Nothing can be further from the truth.   While all our power does wait for us to discover its presence, disolving the illusions for how we view our Self must be worked upon.  It may take a day, a month, a year, a decade…It all depends upon your willingness to rid yourself of the pain that describes the “happiest you will ever be” and find the “happiness you are!”

Why????

Time, lots of time, has developed the methods and the madness of what you would call happiness (but simply is not) …Some of what you do brings you real joy, memorable moments that seem to last forever into the lives you touch. And yes, some of what you do repeats outcomes where it seems you never learn your lesson.  

What WILL you do?  Let failures define who you are….or stop, look, and listen for the lesson being taught about how a fog or haze of our own making created a confusing set of circumstances that prevent us from noticing our greatness.  Eventually, we all discover the fog, the haze, the curtain is what makes for our comfort zone.  What lies beyond the mist is the true beauty for what we search to know more of…..our greatness…our Oneness with The One (God) within.

Well….I am sure you have heard, there is a time and a place for everything. For some people, they will never to take the time to learn why they bring pain and suffering into their lives or the lives of others. For these, these painful outcomes are “as happy as they will ever be.”  They too will eventually come to a place where The Final Judgement for how deeply loved they are will be made.

BUT YOU…RIGHT NOW…. you have chosen to set aside (at least for the moment) all of what you have learned is “as happy as you will ever be” to find a better way to understand, know, appreciate, and love the life that is yours.   It is here….in this place called NOW were God, like a lover sitting on the front porch, waits to share the vast wealth of your perfection and pure love.

THIS is what makes you so brilliant…RIGHT NOW! Making for your own happiness IS what you are presently doing.  So, continue on your way, The Way where all know its path….BUT, so very few are willing to walk it.

 REMEMBER, every question you genuinely seek an answer….and for which you are willing to listen…..a genuine answer is ready for you to have.

You are loved….and LOVED RIGHT NOW!