For What It's Worth

When life is beating you down, do you keep flailing away trying to make things happen? Or do you step back from the action and take a new look?

Our outer lives are reflections of what's going on within us.

If we're embroiled at a stalemate in the outer world, then perhaps it's happening just to show us that we're locked in a similar struggle inside. If so, the only way to break it for sure is to root out and address its cause within us.

It starts by looking at how you're experiencing the situation. What are the emotions you're drawing upon? What feelings are coming up? How is your intuition telling you to act?

A note from my friend St. Germain on Ascension and moving into the light was just posted. It reminded me of a conversation I was having with my Self this morning about initiating some new local activities.

The lawyer in me tends to look down the road for lurking dangers and find paths through them to a desired destination. It's a habit that puts me in conflict with my intuition and inner knowing, causing me to hesitate when the overall path isn't clear.

Anyway, after re-examining things from another perspective, I realized it was enough to just do it without first resolving all the other issues I saw cropping up down the road. Maybe they'll work out. Maybe they won't. But it's time to pull the trigger nonetheless.

As I look around our world, things keep getting curiouser and curiouser. Just look at the news.

They just arrested an Ohio cop for murdering his pregnant girlfriend. That Hilton girl is going to get $1 million for her first interview about going to jail after thumbing her nose three times at a judge's order. Iran's surrogate Hamas has seized control in the Gaza, and Israel might be moving in. The Pope issued the 10 commandments by which to drive.

CNN's climbed up on its soap box, railing against our government's failure to protect our borders and the jobs of our middle class, all under the banner of immigation reform. Funny, I never hear them talk about the system that makes it possible for them to rake in millions convincing us our world is falling apart so we'll run out and consume until we drop.

Each of us has within us an inner vision of what we came to life to experience. It is revealed to us through our inner voice and the possibilities brought to our attention from which to carve our path.

Unfortunately, we're so caught up in the outer trappings of our egos, especially our fears and desires, that often we can't hear it and we're left in a state of waiting for something our gut tells us is coming down the road that we don't want to miss.

It's a matter of instinct inbred at our source.

Hearing an Inner Call

That instinct fills us with a desire to go our own way. We just don't see it yet. We know we will, but we don't know when.

If you want to go one way, and the world wants you to go another, which way do you go?

If you want to offer one aspect of yourself, and the world wants another (like continuing in a career or service that doesn't feel right to you any more), which do you provide?

Do you reluctantly give them what they want? Or do you keep looking for those who want what you want to give?

Have you ever stopped to think how much emotional baggage we carry around?

Now, I'm not suggesting that it's bad or anything like that. But THERE'S SO MUCH OF IT!!!! And for me, at times it feels awfully heavy.

Often our lives don't turn out the way we want because they're built upon shifting sands. In other words, the foundations upon which they're constructed are faulty.

We are, in a very real sense, caught in a tug-o-war, a conflict of laws that we don't know exists, much less understand how they influence our lives in this world.

We think that our conscious thoughts and actions create our lives. And certainly in a sense they do. But there's far more going on beneath the surface that also influences the success of those efforts.

The Inner Rules of Engagement

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.

This entry will be a little different than most you might be used to here. Because today I'm not trying to use my experiences to show other ways of looking at your life.

Instead, I'm getting up on my soap box. Or more precisely, I'm going to tell you the way I see this world of ours. And what lies ahead.

What if you could see your death? Or more precisely, the plans you laid for your life and the possible means by which it might end determined before you came into this world?

Would you change the way you live it? Or would you keep on going the same as you have been?

I'm not talking about purely physical conditions that you know could take you out. Rather, I'm referring to the complex interaction between them and the issues and choices in your life, things you may not even realize are happening to bring about your spiritual expansion while you are here. Or not.