2 messages in this email one below this one hugs:) Sara
*Note anyone who is angry or upset, its a cry for love, hugs again
**Notice
each day whether you are choosing to live in fear or love. Fear can
keep you disconnected from the loving presence inside of you. Causing
fear is a tactic of the ego, whether it be your own ego or the world’s
ego. The world’s ego is a reflection of individual ego power and the
amount of fear that is active. Fear is present when we forget that we
are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to
experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you
have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make
the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant
light of love that is always with you. Who you really are is that
unclouded love.
Here are some ideas for bringing love rather than fear into your life:
• Remind yourself that God created you in perfect love that is
changeless and eternal. Your body is changing, as is your mind, so you
are not that body or mind. You were created as a spirit that is pure
love. That is where you want to keep your attention focused.
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Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life. When you can do
this, a kind of balancing occurs. Rather than atoning for faults with
guilt, you are more committed to promoting joy and service. You will
begin to do what you originally came here to do.
• Notice the acts
of kindness other people do rather than their shortcomings. This is how
the loving presence views you. We are all good, decent, loving souls who
occasionally get lost. When you can focus on the good in another and
hold that in your mind, you are acting from your higher self. This can
help dissipate fear and anger.
• Remind yourself of how much you
have to give away and of how precious and valuable your giving is. You
have the same force running through you that allows the planets to move,
the earth to turn, the seeds to sprout, and the flowers to open. There
is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal
intelligence flowing through all of us.
• Accept that you are
enough. When ego begins trying to attract you toward fear, say loudly,
“I am enough!” You do not need to be anything you are not. You do not
need to prove yourself. You do not need to indulge your ego with fears
and to keep your real self at a distance. “I am enough” affirms that you
choose to love and chase doubts and fears away.
Imagine a world in which we all shared our gifts and bounty with each other rather than focusing on self preservation.
There are many variations on the story of stone soup, but they all
involve a traveler coming into a town beset by famine. The inhabitants
try to discourage the traveler from staying, fearing he wants them to
give him food. They tell him in no uncertain terms that there’s no food
anywhere to be found. The traveler explains that he doesn’t need any
food and that, in fact, he was planning to make a soup to share with all
of them. The villagers watch suspiciously as he builds a fire and fills
a cauldron with water. With great ceremony, he pulls a stone from a
bag, dropping the stone into the pot of water. He sniffs the brew
extravagantly and exclaims how delicious stone soup is. As the villagers
begin to show interest, he mentions how good the soup would be with
just a little cabbage in it. A villager brings out a cabbage to share.
This episode repeats itself until the soup has cabbage, carrots, onions,
and beets—indeed, a substantial soup that feeds everyone in the
village.
This story addresses the human tendency to hoard in times
of deprivation. When resources are scarce, we pull back and put all of
our energy into self-preservation. We isolate ourselves and shut out
others. As the story of stone soup reveals, in doing so, we often
deprive ourselves and everyone else of a feast. This metaphor plays out
beyond the realm of food. We hoard ideas, love, and energy, thinking we
will be richer if we keep to them to ourselves, when in truth we make
the world, and ourselves, poorer whenever we greedily stockpile our
reserves. The traveler was able to see that the villagers were holding
back, and he had the genius to draw them out and inspire them to give,
thus creating a spread that none of them could have created alone.
Are you like one of the villagers, holding back? If you come forward
and share your gifts, you will inspire others to do the same. The reward
is a banquet that can nourish many.