For your consideration…
Over the years you have read many times that almost always, I forget a blog as soon as it is written. I suspect it is so that I don’t second guess myself if I suspect the message is a repeat. What needs to be communicated on any given day is what I will be given. It does not matter whether or not it was written before. Today I will be grateful when this message is wiped. I simply do not want to dwell on it. But that reason right there tells me that this message is important to me. I need to pay attention because I am not doing so well on this lesson.
Relationships are eternal. That is comforting when we are losing someone or have already lost loved ones. We want that affirmation that tells us that we will meet in the afterlife. Indeed, we have met up with the same people in past lives and will continue with them into any future lives we have. Sounds good. It is reassuring.
But what happens with those relationships where we unpleasant, abhorrent, hateful, disappointing relationships? Now the concept is not comforting at all. It is disconcerting.
When I consider my own childhood and the step-dad I had, I can hardly stand the thought of meeting up with him again. I left home when I was 16 to be away from this man. I left everything I knew behind but experienced a peace and relief I had never known because I never had to see him again. I could sleep without fear. I no longer had to hide in my bedroom behind locked doors when my mother was not home. I never want to encounter this man again in any lifetime.
But relationships are eternal. We have them to learn and grow. Every relationship is significant. And every relationship must return to love for the lesson to be learned. Love is the only thing that is real. A return to love is the only way to a lesson learned and healing.
We are reminded of this so that we can work this path for our highest good. If we have relationships that we can heal here in this present life, it behooves us to do so. If not, then we have to work on forgiveness and releasing on our own from this side of the veil. If we can not return this relationship to love, we will have to repeat it in some way. Let that be motivation enough to cleanse all our relationships of negativity, hate, discord, etc., and move them to love.
That is the HOPE. And so it is.
Bit by bit, piece by piece, HOPE by HOPE action steps anyone can take…
-Affirm…“I am loved.”
-Meditate/pray…ask…”What is my next step for my highest good and the highest good of all?”
-Drink lots of water.
-Get outdoors and take in at least 10 deep breaths.
-Heal what needs to be healed. Return to only love.
What made me smile yesterday…
-Sunshine….yeah.
-I moved my herbs from hydro pots to dirt…fingers crossed they survive.
-A good book.
-A date set up for both my girls.
-Catching up with Cathy.
Love, Blessings, and Gratitude,
Rev. Chris
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