"Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice." ~ Stephen R. Covey
Choice is empowering. However, the beauty of choice is often clouded in the overwhelm when there are so many options incoming.
Maintaining balance in daily living is imperative to happiness and our decision making process either liberates or paralyzes us. We should always be journeying toward the expansion of our peace.
There are "must do" tasks in life, but how we accomplish them determines the level of freedom we create by the execution of our choices. This requires we become less distracted and lean in to the challenge of determining what lessons our options present.
The beauty of choice is that we can decide between creating increased life or lack and it is just that; our choice. If we are spinning our wheels in the glorification of staying busy we may look productive, but we become less effective over time and our lives are less joy filled.
Each decision broadens the path to expanded options leading to more opportunities for seeking and creating more freedom. To grow in awareness of your process is to become more mindful in your decision making.
True freedom awaits and it is always yours for the making.
Do your decisions liberate or paralyze you?
Are you mindful of how your decision making process is affecting your peace?
What tasks have you used to distract you from taking charge of your choices?
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"I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend. ~ Debasish Mridha
Weekends used to mean chores, homework, and no matter how late I partied with friends on Saturday night, church on Sunday. These days there is a broader range of responsibility to squeeze into forty-eight hours.
Most of us welcome the weekend as the chance to get done things we rarely have time to accomplish during the work week. Depending on personality and the current levels of busy, most fall into the pace that is most pressing at the time.
The decision to "do nothing" or "to get everything done" can weigh heavily.
"I shall use my time." ~ Jack London
With each new day, the Creator's wisdom provides the freedom to choose how we spend our energy; concentrating our breath toward meaningful moments between work and play. The weekend is a good time for 'catch up' but is also ideal for recovery and restoration from the stress of the week.
I value a couple days of 'catch up', but I also look forward to slowing down for purpose filled self-care with balanced energy toward rest, self-discovery, and pruning.
Make time to just be this weekend. Be with yourself. Be in your breath. Sit alone in the shade of the tree you have planted and have now become.
Inhale and explore the colors of your changing leaves and exhale to discover the possibilities of new seed yet to be planted.
Trust that it will be time and breath well spent.
Do you welcome the weekend?
What purpose have your weekends been serving?
Have you set your intention for how you will spend this forty-eight hours?
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"Beloved I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." ~ 3 John 1:2
Suffering and loss has always been part of the human journey, however, twenty four hour media keeps us on overload with continuous bad news incoming.
As a result, the fear of loss is amplified in the present whether or not we are truly in the midst of a personal crisis.
It can take many years of hard work and sacrifice to build a life of accomplishment, but faith in our success must not override our gratitude, our compassion, or our humility.
"What I feared has come upon me: what I dreaded has happened to me." ~ Job 3:25
The Book of Job lends insight into the experience of loss, faith, and restoration. When we meet him, Job is confronting fear as a trilogy of terror; failing health, sudden tragedies befalling his children and the loss of all that he owns.
Fear of loss is paralyzing and prevents the experience of joy in present moments. Lessons in loss, even trials we deem to be unfair and fail to understand provide the potential for blessings in mind, body, and spirit.
Ways of thinking and states of being are often shaken and broken away in order for new breakthroughs in our evolvement to be born.
Our faith in our Creator and our humanity toward others must develop as well and the Universe has ways to keep us mindful of this truth.
"But we all , with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the fear of the Lord." ~ 2 Corinthians 3:18
The one thing Job clung to without falter was his faith that the Creator knew full well what He was doing even when Job could not understand. "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him," became his mantra through all that he endured.
He believed there was purpose and rebuilding in things ripped away.
When we are focused on God's will to bless us and grow us from glory to glory, we can trust that there is evolvement through overcoming.
Seek purpose in your losses.
How are you evolving through crisis?
Are you growing in gratitude, compassion, and humility in equal measure to your successes?
In whom or what have you placed absolute faith and trust?
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"We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were created for!" ~ Israelmore Ayivor
Current pop culture says, 'The thirst is real.'
This saying has taken hold across social media platforms, film banter, and sitcom dialogues. It is an especial favorite of reality television programs.
"Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely."
~ Simona Panova
Our thoughts are tell tale signs of what we desire most at the deeper levels. Some crave career success, others money, homes, cars, a spouse, and even babies. The list of wants is endless.
Upon that which we place highest priority presents most profoundly in our daily stream of thinking. My main concern is the safety of my children and I find myself offering brief prayers of protection over them at various intervals.
Of course, I think about my work and ways to mindfully express messages of healing and forward movement that fellow travelers can apply in principle as well. All of which I feel called to do and I sense no resistance to incoming inspiration to pursue.
"I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it."
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Thoughts are powerful and reflecting upon 'thirst' in universal context applies to each of us as co-creators.
Our dominant thoughts are what we lend the most energy toward and if not aligned with universal purpose, our thirsts can make us behave in irrational ways. Allowing 'thirst' to overtake and drive energies toward something never intended is depleting and can have devastating effects on our well being.
"What God Has For Me It Is For Me" is a favorite song and a useful mantra for guiding my energies. If it's intended for me, it will meet my experience joyfully.
Chasing a thing will not matter if it is not intended from the Creator.
Seeking the Creator's will first syncs us to the natural universal flow of His wisdom and manifests peace in our lives.
Check your thirst.
What is the 'thirst' driving you toward?
Is your 'thirst' born of ego desire or the Creator's will?
Has that which you have been chasing been adding to your peace or depleting it?
"Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst; but you gotta change it on the inside first, to be satisfied." ~ Van Morrison
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