Desired Results

We live in a very permissive and abundant society. We have resources, food, shelter and government funding. We have the ways and means to seek help from our government, organizations and a plethora of counselors and mentors who are willing to guide us.

As a whole, we choose not to see it. Instead we choose to see scarcity. We speak about recession, no jobs, lay offs, taxes and the incompetence of our government and worry way too much about how we are going to make it through.

We speak about relationships that don't work. We speak of bosses who are slave drivers. We speak of being underpaid. We speak of children who are unruly and uncontrollable. We speak of not enough money. We speak of all the things that go wrong in our lives.

The newspapers, magazines, radio, television and propaganda distributed, all contribute to our feelings of less than or not enough or not good enough. The media offers a lot of useful and good stuff as well. We however, chose most of the time to see only the negative.

Where did all this negativity come from? How do we get around it? What are we seeing or feeling that put us into this uncomfortable scary situation. We speak about how great it used to be and we forget that greatness is not past or future, it is right now.

It is right now because we have a choice. We can choose to see what we want to see. We can choose to experience what we experience. We can choose to live our life with abundance or scarcity. It truly is a choice.

Things happen in our lives at times we can not control. While that is true, we can choose how we respond to it. It is not what happens in life that makes the difference, it's what we choose to do with what happens that makes the difference.

So the question before us is "What do we choose?" Do we choose to see challenges as a bottomless unclear black hole or do we choose the lesson adversity teaches and make our life better.

How do we come to the conclusion of our choice? What knowledge or understanding do we rely on to make our decisions? Is it based on our understanding or some one else's idea of what should be? Why are we so caught up on pleasing others so that we can be valued or accepted, rather than recognizing the greatness within ourselves?

Marianne Williamson was quoted as saying in her book Return to Love, "Our deepest fear is really not that we aren't good enough - but we are terrified to recognize that, in God's real truth, we are actually capable of being - in our own individual ways - great beyond our wildest measure."

So, why is it that we do not see the greatness in ourselves? We were taught by people who had their own idea of pain, sorrow, regrets and joy. They transferred that onto us as we were growing up. We followed what we were taught because it's the only thing we knew. Then we grew up and found that others ideals did not match with our own.