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By Faith
Simon
A friend sent me her thoughts on how she’d
like to live her life in the new year.
This is my response …..
I am sustained by comforting thoughts from
Spirit. Looking back on the year just past I am
heartened by the realization that it's such a long time
since I cried. To me this speaks of the increased
inner strength I've acquired....
Many times comfort and teaching has come through the insights
of Joyce Myer, world-renowned Christian speaker, on her TV
program "Enjoying Every Day Life". It is shown
every weekday at 4 am so I tape it and watch it at breakfast
time.
Time after time when I am struggling with an issue in my life,
most often to do with my relationship with my partner, I get a
new perspective on my situation that encourages me to let go,
give up my self absorption and move into a mind set of
TRUST.
Trust that I will be looked after without my
intervention!!
Trust that a Higher Power than either my
partner or I, is in control and has my best interest at
heart!!
Trust that through all my heartache
and struggle I am being released into becoming the
self-comfortable person I was originally intended to be.
This year I will make a conscious choice to
trust.... when I can. I want to practice laying down my
rights for the benefit of another person, not in a
self-flagellating way but from a position of choice and
strength. In my current understanding this is the path
of following Christ, the path to freedom from
addiction, of self-control, of peace and
happiness. I want to be able to rule my spirit.
I do not want to be ruled/controlled from outside (or
inside) of myself. I will be a slave of
no one, and to nothing. I want to have the
power to choose and not be controlled by my own willful desire
or compulsive need.
This is my dream and hope for the New Year ...that I can
practice this, farther and deeper.
I would like to end this article with a
powerful quote:
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses
your understanding.
Even as the stone of fruit must break, that its heart may
stand in the sun, so you must know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles
of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your
joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you
have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your
grief.”
-- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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