• More on Acceptance

    • February 26, 2010 6:23 pm

    Dearest Readers,

    After I posted yesterday’s blog, I wondered if I’d come across as hard-hearted. After all, I was talking about accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. I am aware that this kind of thinking can come across as judgmental and lacking compassion but, in fact, it is my belief that acceptance is borne from Love.

    Love is the abiding Force behind everything. Some people will dispute that. It’s okay. That doesn’t mean it’s not Truth. Because we are human, death and illness appear real. That’s okay, too. They might appear to be real but they are not true.

    This little nugget of wisdom was given to me today and I’m lovin’ it. Something might be (seem) real but that don’t make it Truth.

    I choose to practice acceptance because I trust that somehow the Great Abiding Love Back of All Things is at work, even in the darkest places. Without negating emotional needs or minimizing pain I am choosing to acknowledge what is True rather than give power to what is not.

    Inspiring Message of the Day: The human experience is real to us and therefore must be validated but the Truth is greater than our human experience. The Truth is that Love is behind everything and if I trust this Truth I have the key to lasting Peace.

    Acceptance Brings Peace

    • February 25, 2010 4:20 pm

    Dearest Readers,

    There is a fire warming my legs, a blue sky outside the nearby window, a sparkling lake in the distance and a dis-ease called cancer that is ripping apart the life of my friend Leanne.

    The unbearable incongruousness of life! How can we live with it?

    Recently I heard someone talking about the frustration we humans feel when we are faced with questions that we cannot answer. In our arrogance and in our fear, we demand the answers. “Why, God? Why?”

    So often, here on this earthly plane, we cannot know the answer.

    Sometimes all we can do is practice acceptance. It might not satisfy the need to understand but it can bring peace nonetheless. We can practice letting go of the “why” and instead look for the “way”.

    Inspiring Message of the Day: I will practice letting go of my need to make sense of things that don’t make sense. From this, I will trust that peace will come.

    What’s Wrong is Right

    • January 19, 2010 10:12 am

    Dearest Readers,

    This morning, the cat started meowing at 4 a.m. and didn’t stop for 3 hours. Why didn’t I just get up and feed him you ask? I thought about it in my half-asleep state but I simply couldn’t move my body. Bone tired.

    Finally, at 7:30, he staged a barfing session. I sat up with a jolt, as I usually do when he starts heaving up the hairball, ready to dash out of bed and set him on the fake hardwood so I don’t have to clean the carpet. But when I turned on the light there was nothing to be seen. It was a false alarm.

    Or was it? I got up, he got fed and I got to work.

    Yesterday, a similar alarm-clock-alternative occurred when the phone rang at 7:19 a.m. It was a friend calling from Back East, forgetting the time change. At first I was miffed but then I was glad. If I hadn’t received that call I might not have wakened at all and I had a ton of work to do.

    It occurred to me both yesterday and today that Higher Guidance was in on these shenanigans. Both times, I needed Big Help to get out of bed. Both times, I got it.

    When I see the world this way, it helps me. It can even turn my anger into laughter. Instead of being pissed off that I got woken up I can see it as funny. A barfing cat as an instrument of Divine Intervention. Hilarious!

    Last night, I started to go into a panic about scheduling a video shoot for the Big O Project. Organizing a shoot time for 15 different people was not happening. I began to trying to think of a solution. How could I make it work? I could force it to work somehow, if I only tried harder.

    Then I remembered this other way of thinking. What if everything was perfect already? What if that person couldn’t make it because this other thing needed to happen? What if I were to move forward with things just as they were?

    I shifted my perception. “The Universe is conspiring to make everything work exactly as it’s supposed to.” Trust and let go.

    Total relief. Total surrender. Total freedom.

    Who needs an alarm clock when you’ve got the Creator of the Universe on wake-up call duty?

    Inspiring Message of the Day: When things appear to be going “wrong” I can turn them around by asking, “What if they are going right?” I can accept what is, and see it as perfect.