Saturday, April 30, 2011

Rebuilding on Higher Ground

As you traverse life, you encounter various challenges that help direct the focus of your journey. It is the choices you make when given these opportunities for growth that determine the level of your advancement. If, for instance, you choose the route that might be deemed easier, because it offers fewer challenges, it might give you fewer opportunities for growth and achievement. If, on the other hand, the route you choose seems more challenging, does it take you in areas of higher spiritual understanding or is it merely filled with pitfalls and opportunities for ensnarement? These are both valid paths and can lead to growth and understanding if you are able to apply the lessons learned and not slip into the chasm of fear and retribution.

As you traverse this time where lessons and opportunities abound, it is wise to cloak yourself in the armor of inner Knowing. By examining each of these opportunities for growth and understanding in the Light of inner Knowing and feeling the energetic imprint of it as you weigh it on a scale of Higher Good, you will Know whether it is “right” road to take at this time. Higher good might be hard to understand for you only have a limited focus, given your limited scope and understanding.

Something that may seem like a “disaster” to some less globally aware, may be exactly what is needed to clear the slate and begin again on higher ground. It frequently takes such a wake-up call to jar awareness into a higher mode of understanding. What some might term “disasters” are shifts on a grand scale that help us to delve deeper and reconstruct the underpinnings of thought patterns and assumptions upon which societies are built. There is a jarring into awareness and a call to reassess what is really important and what is merely window dressing in the school of life.

With restructuring of society comes the imperative to build better, given our new levels of understanding. What have we learned from past “mistakes” that give us a clearer awareness about cause and affect? Given this new opportunity to rebuild the lives we have been afforded, what are the “keepers” that we take with us and what are worn-out vestiges of the past that are no longer relevant to the current situation. In sifting through the rubble of past achievements, what represents the new you wish to build upon and what has served its purpose in understanding and needs to be left behind? While knowledge is never lost, which books need to be put back on the shelf and which need to remain open for they represent the new direction you are pursuing in your new life?

As rebuilding begins you will notice the freedom you have to choose only the things to furnish your life that reflect the new reality you are creating. How important is it to choose only the things that reflect this new image that is being created? It is not merely a process of recreating the old, but choosing anew the things that are important in life and not merely cluttering the space with vestiges of past achievements and “failures”. What do you choose to take with you in your new life, and what have served their purpose and are to be left behind?

If the only obligation you had were to be your most authentic self, what would that look like? Who might you take along for the ride of this lifetime? Who do you choose to surround yourself with that uplift and empower you to be your best, most authentic self? This is your opportunity to reinvent yourself into this new image. Those who would pull you down and try to make you into something that serves their illusions and not your higher purpose should be reexamined for their relevance in the new world of your creation. If there is not honesty and common vision between you, what purpose is being served by the association? Time to restructure relationships as well as environments in order to rebuild your world.

Though the time of rebuilding is challenging, it is only because we try to hold on to lessons of our past. It is the attitudes that we bring to our situations that allow us to look at life as a burden or an opportunity. As you emerge from the rubble of disaster into a new world of possibilities, this is your opportunity to reach higher and grow stronger in the fresh air of possibilities. A new world is calling for you to rebuild on higher ground and create the new earth of tomorrow. What this will look like is only limited by your desire and imagination. What do you wish your world to look like? Make it so through your intentions and efforts. Allow the past to become dust under your feet on the road to a brighter future. It is so…

I AM

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