Each day begins the same way for everyone. You wake up. At least your body wakes up. But does your mind, does your spirit? Does your heart sing with gratitude and thanks for another beautiful day? Give today a new twist. Begin by being grateful for something in your life. And then think of another thing, and another. Pretty soon you will feel a whole lot better, a whole lot more connected to the gifts you have been given. Pretty soon you will begin to wake up with a grateful heart, mind, and spirit every day of your life. And that alone will be transformative, because gratitude is the greatest prayer there is.
If you believe in yourself as an eternal being, who has been born into life on Earth to learn some lessons that will advance you in your eternal beingness, then you are on track for lessons that will guide you forward. If you are still struggling to experience your eternal beingness, your connection to all that exists in the Universe, you too are on track for lessons that will guide you. There is really no difference. It’s just a matter of awareness, but the lessons will be the same; equally challenging, equally difficult, equally confrontational, and equally transformative.
Opportunities abound every day to make a change in your life. There are always small changes you can make just as there are probably big changes. Sometimes a small, subtle change is all it takes to set you off on a new path. Sometimes, however, something more drastic is necessary. But you have to admit to yourself that however change comes into your life, it really is right. It doesn’t come haphazardly. It comes to warn you or to show you what you have been avoiding or missing for so long. So, keep apace of your life’s unfolding, and try to determine what you are being shown on a daily basis to redirect you, or to stop you in your tracks. Even when you don’t ask for something directly from the Universe, there are other guides and helpers in your life who are trying to help you, every day of your life.
Everyone is responsible for their own life, for their own choices and decisions. As children you learned this. As adults you often forget this and you want to just be a child again. But no, childhood is over and adulthood is asking you to show up every day for the next big feature presentation that is in your life’s unfolding. And just as you are expected to take care of yourself, so must you let others do the same. If you take responsibility for others, past their true needs, you might think you are being responsible but you are actually interfering in their lives. Let adults learn to be the grownups that they are meant to be. The only way they can do that is by living their own lives, separate from you. Some people will fail miserably at life, but that is their fate to deal with, in this life and the next. Others will take off like rockets and become outstanding members of society. The vast majority will live adequate lives of boredom and mundanity. But the lucky few will find a connection to their own spirit early in life and they will continually grow and change throughout their lives, never looking back except to give thanks, and never afraid of what is to come, for they learned early on that to live a full life is to always live in awe.
Don’t forget that the world outside of you is there to help you on your journey. The people you meet, the encounters you have, the obstacles you face, all of those things are put in your path to help you. If you seem to have a lot of obstacles in your way, perhaps you are going in the wrong direction. Perhaps you are not meant to have what you want in that direction, and you might remove those obstacles by simply heading in a totally new direction. Perhaps you have a lot of unhappy or angry people in your life. Maybe they are letting you know that they aren’t good for you and that it’s actually time to let them go, rather than trying to change them. Maybe you just can’t get over some sadness in your own life, but the Universe might be trying to let you know that you can’t ever really move forward with something that heavy weighing you down. Find the bigger picture in all of your issues and figure out what is the best next step, based on what you truly want in life. Are you really ready to move on, to change and transform?
