Our
task in life is to work with ourselves sincerely and honestly.
To remove the
emotional and mental obstacles that are in the way of our personal well-being and soul experience.
Soul is. It is what we put in its' way that keeps
us from experiencing it.
Our anxiety, depression, sense of meaningless-ness and
purposelessness can also be seen as loss of soul.
By being willing to own and
grapple with personal pain, we act on our commitment to deepen our relationship
with soul and to open our hearts to love.
Love and fear are two primary feelings.
We can identify with either.
Fear is not only fear of another, but fear of our
reaction to another - which is fear of ourselves.
We can work with our fear of life,
of loneliness, of existential boredom so that we can release them and move
through our inner barriers that block our experience of love.
Today I
will work with my inner pain and fear.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all
of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ A Course in
Miracles
Allow yourself to let go today.
So much grace and beauty enters
our lives when we can get out of our own way and let life work out.
When, on the
other hand, we try to force circumstances to be a certain way, we are unable to be
present in them as they are.
Each day probably has the potential to work out if
we can only let it, if we can learn to move with the natural flow rather than try
to control and manipulate the events of our lives.
Like the weather, our lives have a
natural rhythm. When we are in sync with that natural rhythm, things run more
smoothly.
Today have faith, trust that if we allow our lives to
unfold and if we stay present and alive, we will come to understand how to
live.
Trust in your ability to live your life well.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot
be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom
to distinguish the one from the other. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
