Dealing with Reality

I've heard many people -- spiritual teachers included -- talk the good talk of creating what we want in life. And they've laid out some cogent understanding of the universal laws -- as far as they go.

But it appears that there's a disconnect between their teachings and their lives for some of them. For many are still dealing with the same old stuff. Mountains of bills. Unexpected repairs. Illnesses or other bad situations of self or loved ones.

To quote my grandmother, "It's enough to try the patience of Job."

But patience isn't the lesson here. Unfortunately, it's the one we've been applying as we grit our teeth and keep our noses to the grindstone.

So we focus on being patient and persistent and doing the best we can.

What do we get for our efforts? More struggles and suffering to be patient and persistent about and do our best to work through.

You can be a leader into the new age to come. But you'll never break free of the muck you're caught up in just by wishing it's so. And how can you lead if you're stuck in the mud?

Your old reality patterns keep cropping up to bring you what you've been creating. And even though you're visualizing and setting your intent for something more, reality in this world works slowly.

And yours is asking you, "Do you really want that new stuff? We're having SO much fun together the way things are."