There is a larger plan for us and our lives are carefully orchestrated to lead us to love. In every decision, choice and pathway, love is always an option. In fact, our ultimate and true purpose here is to learn to make that choice for love every time.
And, as it says in A Course in Miracles, we don't really know what anything we see in the world around us is for. Sometimes life seems confusing. It may not always look like we are being taken care of. In our human smallness, there is just too much that we cannot know. However, if we always look for that choice for love, we can know that we are on the pathway to peace and happiness.
Sometimes that choice for love is in simply accepting the world around us as we see it. We drop our defenses, quit battling with life and just breathe and accept. It is never going to be the world our egos want it to be. And, in fact, our egos don't have our higher interests are heart anyway. What the ego wants is not necessarily the best for anyone involved.
So stop desperately wanting to get ahead. Stop the constant wishing for a thinner body or a lottery win. The answer is not in a fancier car, lower cholesterol, a fatter pay check or a better love life. All the worldly things you desperately long for will never bring you the life you actually want. Putting all your energy into planning, controlling, spinning, lamenting, begging and nudging the details of your life to become the life you wish it was will never work. And here's the proof of this...has it worked so far?
The life you actually want comes through acceptance, forgiveness and love. The world around you is the one that has been chosen for you, by you and with you. It is the world that is very best suited to lead you to peace. Make that choice for love in every moment you can today. Just love and accept what you see around you today. No need to judge it. It's all good. Forgive what bugs you and accept the rest.
And when you wake up tomorrow, make that choice for love again.
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And, as it says in A Course in Miracles, we don't really know what anything we see in the world around us is for. Sometimes life seems confusing. It may not always look like we are being taken care of. In our human smallness, there is just too much that we cannot know. However, if we always look for that choice for love, we can know that we are on the pathway to peace and happiness.
"What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?" --A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 135
Sometimes that choice for love is in simply accepting the world around us as we see it. We drop our defenses, quit battling with life and just breathe and accept. It is never going to be the world our egos want it to be. And, in fact, our egos don't have our higher interests are heart anyway. What the ego wants is not necessarily the best for anyone involved.
So stop desperately wanting to get ahead. Stop the constant wishing for a thinner body or a lottery win. The answer is not in a fancier car, lower cholesterol, a fatter pay check or a better love life. All the worldly things you desperately long for will never bring you the life you actually want. Putting all your energy into planning, controlling, spinning, lamenting, begging and nudging the details of your life to become the life you wish it was will never work. And here's the proof of this...has it worked so far?
The life you actually want comes through acceptance, forgiveness and love. The world around you is the one that has been chosen for you, by you and with you. It is the world that is very best suited to lead you to peace. Make that choice for love in every moment you can today. Just love and accept what you see around you today. No need to judge it. It's all good. Forgive what bugs you and accept the rest.
And when you wake up tomorrow, make that choice for love again.
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