Grace and Clarity

I once saw a show on television where Dr. Phil told a couple in crisis, “At any given time, you are either helping or hurting your relationship.  There is never a time when you just coast.”  Yesterday, I saw an ad for toothpaste that claimed every day my teeth are either getting yellower (yikes!) or whiter (enter their miracle product) but never staying the same.

So I guess it was these not-so-holy assertions that primed me to take notice when a spiritual teacher made a similar comment about our daily growth.  My mind had already embraced the possibility that my relationships, like my teeth, needed daily attention.  From there it was a short leap to opening to this powerful but simple statement made in Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch.

“Everything you think, say and do declares, ‘This is who I am.’ “

I have long believed that the spiritual Path is one of ultimate responsibility; that we alone create our reality and manifest the growth that comes from our reaction to the world around us.  But the concept that each and every idea, word and action constitutes who I am today calls me to a whole new level of responsibility.  If that’s the case there is no in-between, no hedging, no gray area.  With everything in me I am daily choosing to assert, “This is who I am.”

So who do I want to be today?

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Ever felt like you are sparring with life?  Ever find yourself trying to move through your day in a conscious way only to receive an “unexpected” blow to your sense of peace, joy or vitality?  In those moments it is easy to begin to live in a reactionary way, to become cynical and feel victimized by your own life.  Recently I asked the Guides about some challenges in my daily experiences and here is what They shared with me…

“Understand that if you cease to fight life you are working in tandem with your own best-laid plan, designed by your very own wise soul to help you become your most radiant and joyful self.  You, yourself plotted the course.  You, yourself prepared the way that would most efficiently lead you to the outcome of radiance and illumination.

Just like a child can see a harmless shadow and imagine it to be a ferocious monster so, too, can you see your life as your adversary.   And the more you fight it, the more you find yourself in bondage to experiences which you would not desire.  But the wise one knows to open to that which lies before her, to find in it the lessons that were meant to be found…lessons scripted by you for you…like points on a treasure map leading the way to the great reunification with the Divine.”

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