 Dr. Janette Marie Freeman
We, as human beings, are suffering uselessly. We are walking around
protecting, struggling and trying to force life. We are hurt and offended by
someone’s crooked face. We are wasting so much time and energy worrying
about other’s approval or unapproval, scheming and manipulating and doing
everything we can possibly think of to make everything go our way, so we can
feel O.K. about ourselves. It is a recipe for failure and unhappiness and
unless we learn a new way, we will continue to suffer. Aren’t you tired of
it? Haven’t you suffered enough? Unfortunately, people still live in hell,
they live in misery, with problems up one side and down the other and I can
hear them say, “Life is good? Are you kidding? Get a grip!”
I want to wrap my arms around them and say, “No, really, there is another
way. It will not be easy to remember, but there is something else going on
if you can look hard enough, long enough and deeply enough. You, too, will
see it, you will feel it and you will know without a shadow of a doubt, that
the you, that IS you, is more than anything you could have ever imagined.”
Our journey is to remember, and, the remembering is good, oh, so good.
This is bigger than being a little positive now and again; this is about
living in a completely different paradigm. It is living in the stream of
blessing, harmony and flow. Who wouldn’t want that? However, most will never
do the inner work, most will never take that much responsibility for their
life, for they would rather blame someone else and believe only in what they
see as truth. We either wake up to the fact that we have something to do
with creating our reality or we can continue to live in hell. It is that
simple.
Well, that is not for me. Not that I haven’t lived in hell and in limbo and
everywhere in between. I have done my share of struggling and crying and
have spent plenty of time “in the closet”. What? You don’t know what “in the
closet” is? Ask my sisters, or your sisters, or your mother, or your
father’s mother; they will know. It is when you cannot take another minute
of life. The closet is the darkest place in the house, and no one can find
you. Yes, I can share my pain with you, but what is more important is how to
transform our pain, take the gift, rise above it and begin to live the good
life. Life is good when we are seeing it right. Life is good, even if it
looks bad. Life is good regardless of what is going on right now. Life is
good because you say so. And, if you say so, the Universe simply knows
“Yes”. Your curriculum is your life. Your participation is not optional. The
degree of your suffering is.
Challenges happen-
Suffering is optional! --- Dr. Janette Marie Freeman, author also of "Why Did This Happen to Me Again?
Keys to Lasting Transformation," and "Live the Life You Love - In Spirit"
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