Had Enough Yet?

I wrote this several months ago and I don’t know why I didn’t post it but the message is good at any time of the year so here you go;

It has rained here so much lately that when I look out my window in the morning and see another cloudy, rainy day I wonder if I moved to Seattle and forgot to tell me.

In all of the years I have been here I have never seen the river rise so high in October, right now it is already at flood stage and more rain is expected.

All of this rain and clouds affects people but it also affects flora and fauna in more ways that you might realize. Take moles for example. Moles seem to have multiplied in our little village for the last several years. Many people have spend countless hours and dollars trying to get rid of all the moles. Usually just before winter the moles seem to do their worst damage but not this October. I haven’t heard a complaint or seen a mole run for weeks.

What is my point today? Into every life some rain must fall and sometimes it is a lot of rain but that rain is for a reason. Maybe you can’t see any reason now but that doesn’t mean there is no reason or that eventually the rain will end, sunny skies will return and change will have happened. When your life is full of rain it may be difficult to think of anything else but it can be done if you trust that the rain will end and concentrate on your blessings. Remember that life is a journey and like any journey into a new place, what you see along the way might not be anything like what you expected but you will be grateful for that when you arrive. The key is to stop thinking about the rain and start planning for the sunshine.

What are you always thinking about?

Today I read one of Chris Widener’s ezine articles and the author quoted a book by James Allen called ‘As A Man Thinketh’ I have read the book and it is a good one, originally came out many years ago so you can find it online for free but there are also updated versions you can buy at major bookstores and online in many places. I recommend you at least read the free ebook. But I digress…. the quote is;

“A Person is the causer (though nearly always unconsciously) of his circumstances, and that, whilst aiming at the good end, he is continually frustrating its accomplishment by encouraging thoughts and desires which cannot possibly harmonize with that end.” and what I would like you to take away from this is that you are who you think you are, you get what you think about and you control your thoughts or they control you and your life.

Ever had something dominate your thoughts? Like worrying about a family member, money, traffic or really any situation that you hated and didn’t want to have happen but sure enough, it did. Or maybe its happening right now. If you could understand that your thoughts of the problem are what brings it to you then you could understand that all you have to do is decide to think about something else. Sounds easy right? It is and it isn’t. If you have spent your life thinking about the times you don’t want then it is a habit. New habits of thought can be formed but it does take discipline and you can start today. If you have a thought of worry or negativity replace it with several minutes of goal setting, sing your favorite song to yourself, read something inspirational or think about all of the good things that have ever happened to you. Remember you and only you control what you think.

As Mike Dooley says: Thoughts become things; choose the good ones!!!

You be the Judge?

Okay, I’m back now and my computer is working great. And now is the perfect time to discuss forgiveness.

Recently I read something about the ‘Law of Forgiveness’ and it struck me that I don’t really believe in that ‘law’. Why is that? Because if you think you have something to forgive then that thought came from a thought of judgment. To me, judging is so not our job and not only that, judging keeps happiness away. As Jesus said; ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’ Are you without sin? Me neither.

But here's the rub; we are taught to judge, its like mothers milk. Its beyond a habit and can be very hard to let go of but once you make a start you will find that you are a much happier person. Now this does not mean that, for example, you go into a diner and order the special but to you it tastes terrible. Granted, that is a judgment call and yet, if you notice that I wrote to you instead of just saying that it tasted terrible then you see that technically it is still a judgment it is not a sweeping one that decides for all if the special tastes terrible or great.

So the simple to acquire habit of the words ‘to me’ can make a huge difference is your ‘judgments’ and ultimately, to your happiness. Now lets have another example; person A and person B are supposed to be friends. Person C comes along and says something about person A to person B. Person B stops talking to person A. Person D tells person A what person C said to person B. And it is not true. Should person A be mad at person C? No. To be angry calls for lots of judging; that person C said anything at all, that person C lied, and that the universe didn’t arrange this to happen for a reason. Person C could have truly believed what he or she said, if he or she said anything at all. Person C could have said anything and person B could have simply asked person A if it was true. And this is how it is in life; you think you have enough information to make that judgment and yet-do you? Likely not. Not to mention the fact that if you declined to have thoughts about it at all, how much happier and serene would you be? Any thoughts of he said, she said invariably take you to a place of unhappiness. Who chooses to go there voluntarily?

More on this later……

Wouldn’t that be interesting?

Today I realized that my drafts have not been getting posted consistently. Neither are my husbands. Each of us thought the other was handling that. There are two ways of looking at that. Well, okay, there are more than two but I am only going to be writing about two, so there.

One is the thought of anger, you know it well I’m sure; If you want something done right, do it yourself. But anger is not only not productive, it is downright detrimental to you. So the  other way of looking at it is; everything happens exactly as it is supposed to.

Are you sitting there thinking I am daft? I assure you that I am not. I am clear that there is my plan and then there is the master plan. The only control I have in the master plan is to ask and believe even when the route I am shown is so not looking like it could ever take me where I want to go and even when I have to be seriously uncomfortable on the journey.

And that is all you can do in your master plan too. And even though that is all you can do in the master plan you still have the responsibility to come up with your personal plan. After all, GOD, the Grand Overall Designer, does want you to dream, to act and to receive what it is that you want.

So I choose to laugh, knowing that the drafts that I have ready might just be waiting for the day when the person that needs and wants to read them the most will happen to read my blog instead of perhaps missing them because they didn’t read the archived posts. Wouldn’t that be interesting?