It would serve you well to remember Dear One that each day is a gift.
All you need to do to receive your gift, is to trust and open up to your present.
A lack of confidence in yourself is just an excuse Dear One, it is not a good enough reason not to try.
Get positive. Be positive. Find something, anything to be positive about Dear One.
This is the surest thing that you can do for yourself, in any situation, to change your current circumstance for the better.
What contribution are you going to make to the world today Dear One? What are you going to toss into the pot?
You choose with every decision that you make, every word that you speak, every action that you take.
Are you going to contribute to the worlds frustration, fear, anger, selfishness, self-loathing, jealousy, denial, defeat, despair or complacency?
Or are you going to choose to contribute something that everyone, yourself included, might need, enjoy and benefit from a whole lot more, like compassion, bravery, tolerance, laughter, confidence, levity, well, you get the idea?
When choosing what you want your contribution to be today Dear one, choose wisely.
Remember, you live there too.
We want you to know Dear One, that the potential for joy exists for you in every moment. Yes, every single one. That does not mean however that every moment of your life is meant to be joyful.
What it does mean is that that joy is available to you in every moment. Whether or not you choose to access it is totally and completely up to you. It is your choice, your right, your prerogative. You have the ability, the skills, the capacity to do so, right now, if you should choose to. You were born with it. There is nothing new that you need to learn, to embrace, to figure out, to choose joy.
But, we would not like to see you deny yourself the experience of fully embracing every other emotion as well Dear One – sadness, despair, fear, anger, confusion, guilt, resentment, and so on. They all deserve your full attention when they arise for you genuinely out of whatever it is you are experiencing in the moment. Always honor yourself Dear One by honoring your feelings. Grant yourself the freedom to fully experience whatever it is you are feeling in the moment.
And once you have done so, once you have granted yourself that experience of embracing your current emotional state, fully, completely and genuinely, know that joy will always be there for you, will always be available to you, whenever you are ready to return to it.
Matters of the heart Dear One always seem to be much more complicated then they actually are.
But you see, love is love. It is what it is. Wonderful, powerful, intoxicating, healing, transformative, transcendent, inspiring, fun. No matter how you slice it, dice it or serve it up – love is just that, love. And there is nothing complicated about it.
Love only becomes complicated Dear one, when you begin to put dependencies on it and assign requirements to it – when you decide that it exists only in conjunction with a specific set of circumstances, behaviors, actions, words, or deeds. THAT is where the complication rests Dear One – not with love.
The truth is that love has no dependencies and it is everywhere. You are swimming in it in fact. And all you need to do to experience it, is allow yourself to open up to it – allow it to flow to you, through you and from you. And the way many of you learn how to do that, to open up to the experience of love, is through relationships with people that inspire you to fall, and through that inspiration you learn to let go, open up, and let it flow.
But remember Dear One, that love is not sex. Love is not marriage. Love is not a family. Love is not a promise, a commitment, a duty, an obligation or a responsibility.
We want to help you see that any complications that you think you are experiencing as a result of love – are actually a part of your perceived personal reality only, and are not in fact a reality of love.
Grant yourself a great gift today Dear one and let go of all of the things, rules, dependencies that you have put in place as a condition of love and give yourself permission to simply allow it, experience it, enjoy it, be inspired by it, transformed by it, healed by it. Swim in it Dear One, unfettered, undefined, uncomplicated, love.
Life, can be complicated Dear One, but love never is.
Enjoy it.
No amount of logical thinking or logical action can turn around that which you are feeling Dear One, so don’t waste your time trying. Logic, has very little to do with what is, with what has happened, with how you are feeling, and you know it.
Your emotional response is exactly as you would expect it to be considering all that has happened, and logic has very little to do with it.
Logic can be a very useful tool for narrowing down choices or dictating limitations. But now is not the time for limitations or for limited thinking Dear One. Now is not the time for you to be practicing your logic.
Now is the time for you to be practicing something larger, something that will serve you, that will serve all of you, without limitations. Now is the time for you to be practicing faith, compassion, patience, acceptance of what is, generosity of spirit, forgiveness, tolerance and giving and receiving love.
Today is not the day for logic Dear One.
How much light you have in your life Dear One, how connected you are to source, is entirely up to you.
We, consciousness, guidance, spirit, source, are not more available to you on some days and less available to you on others. We are not more available to some people and less available to others.
We are equally available to all, like the sun, and from our perspective, there are no rainy days.
The openness of your heart Dear One, your ability to trust, is what determines the amount of light in your life, how connected you are to your source. Nothing more and nothing less.
You can choose to open up the shades a little and let a small amount of light in, or you can choose to open them up all the way and let the light pour in all around you.
Just how bright would you like it to be today Dear One?
You know its not true Dear One. You don’t have to face every singe one of your fears to move past them.
There’s another way. You’ve got another choice.
If you are willing to, you can simply let them go instead.
Take notice of the hands that you are holding onto Dear One, the connections that you choose to maintain.
Are they helping you up or holding you down? Are they pulling you back or encouraging you forward? Are they leading you in the direction that best serves you or in the direction that best serves them?
If you are not sure Dear One, let go for a moment or two (or three or four if you need to) and find out.
It’s important that you know.