What You Think About You Bring About
Sometimes common sense takes a minute for me to implement.
I know that it’s best to not get caught up in the news cycles. Breaking News is never good news! In order to keep our attention, to keep us watching or scrolling, we are bombarded with the latest doom and gloom. I know better than to watch it, but it’s so easy to get sucked in.
My vicious cycle goes like this: heaviness on my heart, tightness in my throat, and pressure on my head... thought: “Where is this coming from? I haven’t experienced anything in my personal life that makes sense to be feeling in my body!”...action: check the headlines and/or what people are saying on social media...more action: get sucked into “checking” for much too long ... feeling: heavier sense of dread, and so on, and so on...
A couple years ago, I was given a dream/vision that I blogged about once before. I was walking over a foot bridge in Springtime. Instead of locks on the bridge, there were dowels with people’s sets of keys. There were backpacks on the ground where people had dropped their heavy burdens. As I walked into town, I noticed “Help Wanted” signs for painting fences, taking care of children, laundry, and the like. I thought, “I have paint and brushes. I can help paint that person’s fence.” As I had this thought I realized that no one in this town was in need because everyone was giving and receiving according to their abilities and possessions. We were working together, taking care of what we had and taking care of one another.
I share this dream because that is what I see when the horror of the headlines becomes too much. Obviously, your dream doesn’t have to be like mine. But I doubt anyone reading this is hoping for more violence, more oppression, or more unfairness...but if we keep focusing on it, that’s exactly what we will attract. Every time we utter, “things suck” (or its equivalent), the Universe hears it as an order off the menu. That’s why gratitude is so important.
The more thankful we are for what we do have, the more we attract it to us.
I am thankful for the peace in my community.
I am grateful for the love within my family.
I appreciate greatly the power that runs to my house keeping me warm in these freezing temperatures (and my ability to use Wi-Fi to write and publish this blog).
I love that I have food to eat and a reliable car to get to places.
I’m happy knowing that I was able to make someone’s life better today.
This little list is very powerful. Words are powerful.
Angels are all around us. We are not alone in this, but they want to encourage us to have a grateful heart and keep our vision on the world we want to live in, not the one we don’t. LOVE is the answer. What small thing can you do today to make this world more like the one you want to live in?
