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PRIVILEGE
AND BLESSINGS
Most of us in this country have privilege in our
lives, whether we recognize this gift, or not. Most of us can find the
time and energy to pursue what our hearts yearn for.
We often complain that we don't have the time, or
the money, to pursue our interests, our dreams, our desires. Yet if we
pause to consider how fortunate we are for the blessings of our lives the
way they are, we could choose instead to be grateful for the opportunities
that ARE afforded us.
Two hundred years ago most people's primary focus
was survival. When one is in survival mode what matters is food, clothing,
water, shelter. Anything else is extra.
We, instead, take the abundant luxuries we are
surrounded with for granted and assume we are entitled to a life filled
with extras. We walk around bemoaning the need to do things we don't want
to do.
Many of us complain we have jobs we don't like and
think we should be doing something else. I recently heard a man
complaining that he wanted his life to be so that he would be financially
sustained through his heart love of composing music. He resented 'having
to work' and therefore only having the opportunity to compose in his
'spare time'. Rather than see the privilege of his job and income and what
it afforded him, he chose instead to focus on not having his life the way
he wanted.
As I recall Einstein worked in a patent office.
Instead of undermining the blessings that are
abundant in our lives by lamenting our circumstances - let's take time in
the busyness of our lives to look at the privileges we do have, the
luxuries that are abundant to us all, and expand our joy and gratitude
into those areas.
Where are you placing your focus? Remember, the
blessings are abundant. Are you willing to enjoy them?
QUOTES
"Rather than focusing on lack or the
"what might be better", why not start being grateful for
"what you've got".
Here's a little exercise you can do on your own.
Make a list of the people, things and qualities in your life for which you
are grateful. It might surprise you all of the abundance you have in your
life."
~ John-Roger ~
INVITATION
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SPECIAL
ANNOUNCEMENT
I am writing a book on forgiveness. If you' would
like to contribute you can do one or both of two things:
- ask me any questions you might have about
forgiveness, what is it, how to do it, why do it....
- send me any story you may have about how
forgiveness, forgiving yourself or another has changed your life, even
in small ways.
PRACTICALLY SPEAKING:
- Scan your life at the moment and let your
awareness land on something you have been irritated with, complaining
about, wishing it were different.
- Perhaps, like me, you are finding the weather to
be too cold, too bitter, too gray, too well - too winter.
- Now challenge yourself to see your situation
through the eyes of privilege and blessings. For me, I have an
amazingly warm coat to wear, a car with a heated seat, a wood burning
fireplace in my den to cozy me, a silk filled comforter to keep me
toasty at night.
- When I shift my focus I become aware of how
amazingly fortunate and abundant I am.
- How about you? Where can you shift your attention
so you open to the blessings that already are?
WONDER QUESTIONS:
- Would you rather live in hardship or abundance?
- Are you willing to open yourself up to the
blessings of abundance that already are?
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