Spirituality

After we finished, Joe told me of a conversation he'd recently had with his brother Pete. Pete asked Joe how everything was going at his rental properties. 'Fine,' Joe replied. 'Couldn't be better. We have good people renting from us, and, lately, no maintenance problems at all. Seems too good to be true.'

Then Joe said to me, 'As soon as I said that to Pete, I just knew something would go wrong.'

Sure enough, the next day the kitchen sink in one of Joe's houses sprung a bad leak.

Why do we humans so often think when our lives are flowing easily, it can't last? Why do we have such negative expectations? As if the Universe was constantly conspiring against us -- and was ready to leap down our throats if we dare to think a good thought.

Here's Chief Joseph.

CHIEF JOSEPH

We realize how easy it is for you to get swept up in the mass consciousness of negativity. After all, you're inundated every day of your life with all the bad news, all the things wrong with your world -- and yourself.

There is certainly no scarcity of people and organizations happy to point out what's wrong with you. If you can't measure up to whatever your society (that is, the mass consciousness) currently defines as 'right' or 'perfect,' then you are, by definition, a flop -- a failure.

You live in a world caught up in a tangled web negative expectations. You always prepare for the worst -- for illness, for accidents, for war, for terrorist attacks, and so on.

And you see this on every level -- the individual level, as John's story shows. But also on other levels -- your governments, your schools, your churches.

It's as if no one ever heard the words your Christ uttered: Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Well-being is your natural state, just as it's the natural state of the birds and all wild creatures. It is the state your higher self, the Universe, God have envisioned and intended for you.

Yes, you've incarnated into a world of vast diversity. A world where you have many choices and opportunities available to you.

And that's part of the power and beauty of physical life on Planet Earth -- you get to choose from this grand banquet table of opportunities what you will put on your plate.

It doesn't matter what circumstances you were born into -- great poverty or great wealth, or somewhere in-between. You, through your free will, can choose your opportunities. You can choose to improve your lot. Or you can choose to do nothing and stagnate. It's all your choice.

But well-being is your natural state. And no matter what choices you make in this lifetime, you will ultimately return to that natural state of well-being. You can do it in this lifetime, or the next -- it's all your choice.

Know this however: You do create your realities. You are powerful creators, whether you know it or not.

And so if you have negative expectations, as Joe did, you will create what you don't want.

Friends, well-being is not 'too good to be true.' It's your natural state of being. Trust that. Expect it. Above all, allow it to come to you.

Then it will be yours.

Copyright © 2006 by Great Western Publishing

Article Index: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59

More Articles:

2. How to Develop a Spiritual Success Partner By Ana Tampanna
1. Identify a woman who is “like minded,” who has the attitude and exudes the philosophy that you like and feel drawn to… someone who is on the same wavelength spiritually.2. Ask her if she will be your Spiritual Success partner, in other words, you will support each other’s SPIRIT.3. Determine who will make the phone call and at what time. Calls should be made either five times a week or daily.4. During the call: LISTEN to her feelings of the moment, TELL her what you heard and ASK what she …

3. ADAM KADMON, the Infrastructure of Creation
All my faces are one. You are in my image, you are one with me. As long as you are one with me, you have All-That-Is in me, including my force, my quality. Depart from it and you've had it: you are a fragment, a branch cut off from the Tree of Life and you rot. If you bend the branch here and there, fine. But if you break it, that's it, you have just cut yourself off from your nourishment. Yet the choice is yours. Your true connectedness can only be tried in a strong wind: no matter how much you…

4. Are You Allowing Emotions to Control Your Life? By Angie Lewis
Emotions play a big role in our life. They are active and alive twenty-four hours a day, even in our dreams. Emotions literally tell us what to do with our marriage, family, job, career, self, and how we love others. If we don’t control the course that our emotions run, we might be heading down the road towards destruction.Are you allowing emotions to control your life?When was the last time you got angry? What do you do when your friend turns their back on you? What do you do when your spous…