Choices

I’ve been reflecting lately on how much stuff I own. From my experience, I know things don’t define me and that all of us can make do with much less than we think.  Cleaning out the garage and purging a lot of I'm going to focus my attention, on not acquiring stuff and that way I don't get caught in a control snarl and wounds that happened in this place called the past, but rather on managing my soul so I don’t repeat these mistakes. Moving to a larger home and filling it with things I believed I needed was easy. Now with a reversal, it’s time to purge.

In the last few weeks, I’ve had my first garage sale, and have had to borrow a truck three times to drop off furniture at a charity shop. I’ve taken countless boxes to a used book store and many more boxes to the Salvation Army and just this morning a Veteran’s organization carted away eight boxes and three large bags. I’ve also driven to a cardboard recycling venue to drop off boxes twice and there’s still more to do.

I don’t want to be gifted anything for my home.  There’s no need and no space.  The sad truth is most of the stuff that was given away was in excellent shape and reflects my expensive taste. But will someone else appreciate it?  Who knows? Once you give something away it’s none of your business.   

So with that, I stay in my consciousness and stay in the present time, and live by higher truths.

There’s a law of balance, and I choose to stay in balance, and I live my life so that I can sense when I make a choice that throws me off balance. I become conscious of the mystical laws because those are the laws that determine how my physical world is.

This journey of life we all have to take, and determines whether or not you’re strong enough to give up that part of you that participates in illusion, and the permission illusion gives you to use people, or to even use your wounds.

I believe that every person’s life is a journey of empowerment. And this journey is not an easy one. We have to learn and re-learn our life lessons constantly. But few truths are as profound and life-changing as realizing how powerful every one of your choices are, even – if not especially – the silent choices we make to ourselves.

We all have the power to shift the quality of our life with one choice. Deciding is key.  And living with the consequences of our decisions is just as powerful. 

The great challenge of every human being is to go from the love of power in the physical world because getting stuck in the physical world becomes our safety net, and if we transition we see there is no safety in money or with status or with health because everything changes in the blink of an eye. 

One thing to ask yourself is how much are you willing to negotiate with yourself thinking you’ve arrived at “safety.”

No human being can do that… none of us are immune to adversity. We saw this during the pandemic when some stupid people believed by not wearing a mask their politics would save them and would make them immune to illness.

In reality, everything that keeps us well are the things we cannot see such as love, compassion, courage, and endurance. The things we value most such as trust, faith, loyalty, grace, creativity, and inspiration, we also cannot see.

These are the substances of the life force.

This is what keeps us alive, not our stuff, but our soul.

And if those were taken away from us, we would die, disintegrate, and evaporate into depression and would not revive.

One choice that we make can reverse our lives and empower us.

To gain our power back we increase the throttle and speed of how we comprehend things.  It initially scares us as it connects us to life, the laws of the Universe, and our higher power. It’s then we stop looking at another by their actions or the package they come in but we witness the soul of another.

If we dig deep and explore the relationship we have with the dynamic forces of creation (that can be achieved through meditation or prayer and humility) we seek the means to understand our life as a participant in a collective – a personal – and sacred contract with the creative laws of the universe.

To conclude, I chose the Michael Jackson song because of its lyrics are introspective and thought-provoking exploring the idea that change begins with you, and the Madonna song because it is both personal and political and the pressure young women often face to conform to societal norms.

Would you like to share your thoughts? I’m open to listening.