If you want to be happy, be.
--Leo Tolstoy
Good day, my Heartlight family,
For those who might wonder what lies at the heart of creating Sunday messages, it might be any number of things. Sometimes topics are based on questions that I’m asked by one of you, or the comments of someone I encounter while journeying through the world. Sometimes an idea floats up out of an article I’ve read, or a book, or the ideas of other ministers. Whatever the source, I take them all as potential guidance from Spirit, and worth exploring.
So…this week I’ve been thinking about whether there is any mystery to being happy. Some folks feel as if there is, but I’m pretty sure that’s the ego mind doing its usual fence-straddling and bet-hedging. In case it can’t figure out a way to be happy, it can fall back on the whole “life’s a mystery we’re not meant to solve,” argument. But we know that isn’t true. Our soul’s journey is designed (by us) to expand us, teach us, and enlighten us. Nothing is off-limits. How could it be? What could possibly be off-limits to an expression of God, that is to say…us?
The quote above from Leo Tolstoy may seem absurdly simplistic, but I assure you it isn’t. The ego mind complicates everything, takes everything personally, and makes heavy going out of what could be smooth sailing. It resists our Divine compulsions to let go of the thoughts and emotions that ail us. It clings fiercely to a catalogued inventory of failures, losses, mistakes, disappointments, and could-have-beens. I speak not from musings on the theoretical, but from personal experience. There was a time when my ego mind did all those things far too often, but I’ve spent some quality time in conversation with it, teaching it to work with my higher self, not against it. And I have to tell you that the result is pretty amazing—less judging, worrying, fretting, complaining—and way more peace of mind. Just remember that the ego mind makes a great ally and a very unsatisfactory task master, from a soul journey point of view.
You know, the more I walk this path we are sharing, the more aware I am that choice is at the heart of everything. We have this astounding and blessed freedom to choose peace in every moment, no matter what the world is showing us. Let us all continue to revel in the gift we have already been given.
Be well, be at peace...and bask in the Love,
Rev. Lauren
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