When a person doesn't get the message from God or the universe, it sends someone to tell us. It is telling us to come up with the things we have avoided to get them out of the way for something more beautiful. This has been a year of getting messages from the Holy Spirit and God, messages that I avoided for many decades.
It does not mean that there is not a sense of rebellion inside that wants to choose avoidance as a choice. It means that I stop struggling and am learning to become freer with each choice I make towards resolution of the issue. In confronting the issue or challenge, I am freeing myself from allowing the issue to consume or walk all over me.
This is not only directed to people but to life's challenges in business and personal life. I want to be ready to go to the next level that God has planned for me. Somehow I have not progressed but stayed at the same level, if not regressed, more in the past ten years because I choose to avoid making choices.
Today, I heard the message from Joyce Meyer. She said that we can't get to the next level until we seek the truth. She also reminded me that if we complain about something not to pray for it. We need to not complain but find a way to discuss in a way that will not offend or hurt someone.
In my life, I have tried to carefully choose the right words, but sometimes they have been 'straight talk' that has hurt someone. I have also avoided confrontation with my parents and not expressed how their words were hurtful, as I realized that it was no use because they didn't care. When you wake up and realize that it is ok to let the offense roll away and smile and listen, that is a wonderful thing.
I think I am writing my blog for today by accident so I should cut and paste this and put it in my blog. That is confronting the issue that I love to write and go to FB first rather than my blog!
In my gratitude for today, I was thankful for my bills, for the issues I have to face with the IRS, the water I drink and use for bathing, the newness of stewardship and giving back, and for the universe bringing the challenges to me to confront.
Yes, even the fact that the issues I have had with my car I am in gratitude for. When it was apparent that the vehicle needed to be replaced, I choose not to take action. That action has cost me much money over the past few months. I also have realized that I am not alone in the issue of a Buick that stalled and stops while you are driving it, no matter what speed, and that it could have cost me a major traffic accident and could have cost me my life. For that i am in gratitude.
I have spent the past four days at home without transportation. This last stall left me panicked and I am afraid to drive the car. That fear has to be conquered as it is consuming the peace that I have felt. It has also lead me to get the paperwork done I need to do to find another reliable vehicle. Tomorrow I am going to find another vehicle that I can drive for now until time for me to purchase another quality mode of transportation.
It is ok for God and the universe to let change come into my life and allow me to through his refuge become peaceful through good choices. The devil and negative energy can stay away as I am in the refuge of God and universe.
If God and the universe did not chastise me, I might wonder about God's love. Many years ago, I knew that the choices I did not make would someday be brought to me as I was allowed to wander in the valley of the shadow and through the earth to live a life of wonderment and challenges.
As I write this to you, I am glad that I can now walk in truth and am looking forward to that which is already planned for me. Having God as the CEO of my life - my company, my partnerships - creates growth and allows me to continue dreaming. Yes, even those of us over 60 can still dream.
Oh, by the way, I am working on building the foundation of my dream now. Each day, I take a new step and it is good. Go forth. Continue dreaming. Visualize where you want to be and what you need to do to get there.
I end with a quote from a FB writing from Wayne Dyer: "When you live your life going through the motions, it may seem to be convenient, but the weight of your dissatisfaction creates a huge imbalance in the only life you have now. It shows up when you are sound asleep and your dreams are filled with reminders of what you'd love to be, but you wake and return to pursuing your safe routine.
Allow yourself to think about this fire from heaven. What are your dreams and how can you shift your thinking habits to match your dreams? Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult that dream may seem. ... Dream and you shall become."
I spent part of yesterday in teleconferences to hear messages that I have heard, given to others and not heeded. So again, I heard the message from someone else. God has shown me for years that I was just as capable to speak and write as my friends and colleagues. Did I listen? Somewhat. I would start and stop. Go to meetings and learn and make appointments. I had a great speaking business in the 1980s and then it stopped because I stopped. Now, it is time to ask me "Who is Sher? What does she want?" and find the goddess, the queen in me and make it happen.
By writing this to share with you, I am doing so. Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts. I hope the something in this writing resonates with you to help you today to confront an issue and make the right choice to move it from your path to that which God and the universe has planned for you- much better that you or I can anticipate we can do by ourselves.
Tim Davis just put a message on Facebook as I was writing and I will end with this as it is the summary of my writing.
The Daily Difference for July 31, 2013
"Every great achievement first began with a decision to start"
Question to reflect upon
When have you pondered too many choices rather than make a firm decision? What if you made that decision now?
Now does it make sense? Did you get the message? Go and do and dream on.
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