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.

We can feel your impatience, Dear One, your restlessness, your desire to move on from where you are now, to someplace new, to where you want to be.

We can see you searching, looking, trying, struggling, experimenting, stumbling around looking for the key to the door that you think will get you there.

Well, we’ve got some bad news for you.  No matter where you look, no matter how hard you try, no matter much you visualize it, no matter how much you want it, you are never going to find that key, Dear One.  Ever.

Why?

Because it doesn’t exist.

The door is already open.

All you need to do is walk through it.

Create from an angry, frustrated, stressed out, fearful place, Dear One, and no matter how hard you work, how hard you try, how good your intentions are, the very best that you are ever going to be able to do is create more of the same.

You can’t make an apple pie with peaches.

Make sense?

If you are already running late, Dear One, if you are already behind schedule, rushing, hurrying, being scattered, frantic, angry, short tempered and stressed out about it, is not going to fix it, undo it, or magically make it better in any way, shape or form.

But calming down, collecting yourself, being grounded, centered, and fully present and aware when you arrive just might.

Memories are not necessarily a true reflection of the events of your past, Dear One.  They are more like a picture/a snap shot created in your mind to support a current feeling about an event from your past.

Memories can be beautiful, but they can be damaging as well.  Especially when you assign more value or truth to them then you do the present moment.

You can learn from your memories, but be wary of them as well.  It is the present moment, the now, that has the greatest influence on how you remember something.   Keep this in mind when you attach meaning to an event from long ago.  When you do, more often that not, is it simply a  way of putting a current feeling into a familiar context.

Be wary of giving too much energy to your memories Dear One, as your recollection of them are really much more about the present then you would think.

Do you want to know how you turns thing around, Dear One, how you get it to stop feeling like things are spinning out of control?

We’ll tell you.

Remember that you are the creator of your world. Remember that you are the one in charge, the one deciding, choosing, attracting, and manifesting all that you’ve got, all that you are experiencing, all that is headed your way.

If you want to slow things down, slow them down, if you want to speed things up, speed them up, if you want more or less, bigger or smaller, lighter or darker, (you get the idea) create it, choose it, make it so.  It’s just that simple.

How?

Stop reacting and start creating.

Align your thoughts, energy, words, deeds, and beliefs with what you want, Dear One, instead of with what is, and you’ll see what we are talking about.

To ride this ride, Dear One, you must trust.

To do it any other way makes it so much more difficult than it needs to be.

What are you meant to trust in?
Our answer to that question is right here.

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You ask: Will these trials EVER end?

And we reply: No Dear One, they will not.

But let it not be forgotten that so far, you have risen up to meet each and every one!

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Why bother doing all that you can, Dear One, when you can get by doing just enough?

Why bother doing the right the thing when no one really seems to care or to even be paying attention?

Why bother trusting, and making the harder, braver, more challenging choice when you’ve got something to lose?

Why bother putting in the extra effort to be thoughtful, generous, loving, persistent, patient, forgiving, and kind when it is not requested, required or expected?

Because what you put out is what you get back.

That’s why.

Character, Dear One, is not discovered in comfort or contentment. It can be expressed in those states, but rarely is something new discovered in comfort.

Not because it can’t be. Because it absolutely can be. But it rarely is, because comfort allows for complacency and passivity, while turmoil does not.

But, if you do nothing more than allow yourself to simply aspire to balance, to equanimity, and then pursue the hard things within that are required to achieve it, who you are, your true character will not only be revealed to you, but it will be strengthened as well.

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