The Power of Choices

“There are beautiful and wild forces within us.”
-St. Francis of Assisi
“If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside your limbs, but from a Holy realm that lives in us.
-Rumi

Last week we highlighted a question that we raised last week in our blog: Is God Sending Us Messages?  When we began work on our book The Light Gap: God’s Amazing Presence we made a list of many of the questions that we had found ourselves asking.  We were in the process of spiritually awakening.
Our whole lives we had been questioning, growing, and changing our beliefs.  However, Terry and I had an experience with God’s LIGHT that had made this slow process speed forward, like being catapulted by an invisible force.  Is God sending messages through people?  The answer to this question was and is YES!  We are both human and spirit here on earth. We all are very aware of our humanness, but not all are aware of the spirit self.  We do not have full awareness of our true nature.  But as we make choices, bit by bit the truth comes out.

Many biblical-spiritual-historical mentors have described this mystery and power that lives within every man and woman.  But were we able to understand?  Divine Spirit has always been there, giving us messages, guiding our lives but we were not always able to believe guidance comes from the Divine.  We are not always able hear the still, quiet voice.

Our bodies are like radio receivers.  The vibrations are pulsing in the air around us.  Have radio and TV waves always been there, even before we invented a machine that could “catch” those vibrations.?  Yes.  We just did not have the knowledge, now we do.  So it is with Spirit.  Our bodies are equipped to be the instrument to receive these messages.  We all have experienced them.  Sometimes it feels like it is just our imagination.  Messages come through as thoughts – they just pop into our head.  You know it is a message because it is new thought.  Sometimes we call it intuition.  It is real.   Sometimes it is like a shout!  We access these messages by tuning in.  We make the intention to connect.  We meditate. 

But…we have free will.  Freedom allows us to make choices.  We can make the choice not to be dragged down by experiences that are tragic or unpleasant.  It is fear that keeps us stuck.  If you are unhappy, there is a reason.  It is a sign that better choices can be made.  But we balk at the thought that our choices are creating unhappiness.  We think we have no control.  Know that you control what is “projected onto your screen.”  We can remain unhappy or we can make a new choice.  We can ask for guidance to create a more peaceful now.  We can savor every moment.  We think that moments are connected, sequential, like a chain that is hard to break.  They are not.  Each moment is a new beginning, the now.  The past is over. Isolate the moment and choose the now.

I had to learn this the hard way.  I remember the time when I had the realization that I had to choose to let happiness and joy back into my life.  I realized that unhappiness and happiness sit together. The death of my daughter brought great sadness.  I thought I would never be happy again.  Then one day happiness was sneaking into my consciousness.  I had to choose to let the happiness and joy back into my life and let it soar.  It was not easy.  It was a gradual process but it opened me up to live.  Our society has a belief that we degrade the memory if our loved one and are disrespectful if we are not visibly grieving.  This is not so.  As I was beginning to live a rich life again I was choosing to feel, bit by bit, my true spiritual connection to Anne who is living on in the spirt world.  When I feel the loss, I let it flow through me.  I don’t resist. Then I return to the now, knowing that Anne is happy where she is.

Feelings are the language of the soul.  How much Spirit we let in can determine how much happiness we feel.  By choosing to consciously sit in silence, the receiver within me is taking in the vibrations of the guides that are always with each of us.  Together, we make the choices and create our life story.

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