I know I post about this a lot. I do that because I’ve found it necessary to learn to reframe my own experiences. If something, anything, brings me closer to the infinite, eternal, and all-loving light within me, can it be called bad? Or is most of the pain I might feel because I’ve judged it as bad and haven’t looked at it from a much larger perspective?
I’m not suggesting that the only way to find this light is by having challenges, but it is the way most of us begin to look for it. When things are all hunky-dory, we generally don’t look for the inner light. Why would we? We think we are all comfy in our lives. I know that in the beginning, when things were “good,” I really had to stay spiritually focused because sometimes I began to stray off.
We usually need some squeezing before we begin to search for what we long for with all of our hearts, but once we discover this light, we generally don’t need as much squeezing because we love it so much we don’t ever want to be without it.
So if you are walking through a storm, I know it doesn’t feel good, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a good thing. You might be being squeezed to an inward direction where you will find the light that is and always has been shining within you. Once you glimpse at this light, you will be very grateful for every storm that carried you to it.
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Thank you for these recent posts. The loss of my husband of 49 and a half years and the circumstances surrounding his death have left me broken-hearted and I am finding it difficult to go on with any quality of life. I have your art and wonderful words posted in my home office and other areas of my house. Sometimes a post will provide what I need to make it through the day. Thank you.
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When I go through a big storm like you are, I find it necessary to slow waaaay down so that I’m only dealing with even the next hour or ten minutes. I don’t look far ahead, even to tomorrow. You are in the unknown right now and we tend to just lay all our fears on the future when we are in the unknown. Be gentle with yourself. Another thing that I’ve found helpful is to begin to stop trying to change whatever seemed to happen in my mind. This is something I’ve had to consciously remind myself of very often in the midst of big challenges. I will constantly say out loud to myself, “Jane, there is nothing you can do about what happened, but you can start asking what you should do now, today, this moment, to move into a sense of peace.” This can be hard to do and you might have to do this over and over again. I know I did. I have also purposefully looked for anything and everything that made me smile or laugh even a little bit. I found a television show that made me laugh a little and watched it over and over again. Every time I smiled or laughed, it’s like I could feel a tiny bit of healing taking place. You do have a light within you that wants to guide you and even show you that nothing can separate us from one another. No matter how it might seem.
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Thank you for your encouraging posts.
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The words in this image are very encouraging. In fact, discouragement is when you get mentally destroyed. However, there’s always reconstruction!
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Good morning.💦 Thank you,JLL. I’m spiritually focused for the first time in my life. Thank you for consistently singing it.
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