''Left Alone” Blog #11

Today is easier than yesterday. Yet, you may be reading this and think “today is

so much harder than yesterday”. Life is so much like this. One never knows what

we are going to be dealing with from one day to the next.

There was a period in my life when I felt that no matter where I looked, no matter

what I did, no matter where I went…..Life was just too hard. I asked myself over and

over, “why do I have to be given all this to deal with?”

Why am I so unhappy?

After my Mother was killed, I had to wait two agonizing long years for the trial to take

place and find that the person who had done this was now found “not guilty by reason

of insanity”. This was so difficult for me to deal with. I went to one counselor after the

other. I read so many books and attended one “Grief Seminar” after the next.

Nothing seemed to take hold. One day a good friend told me about this wonderful

man that she was sure I would connect with. I agreed to take the chance and made

an appointment. He told me something that immediately clicked. He said “take all the

things that you are worried about now, all the things that you feel bad about and “leave

them alone”. He told me to visualize this room far away on an island. He said there was

one door to this building with only one room in it. He said close your eyes, take yourself

to this building and open the door. Now take all the things that you are most worried

about, fearful of and afraid of and take them there and leave them there.

Now close the door so they are “Left alone”. If you have learned your lessons from things

in the past, they are only weighing you down now. They must be discarded.

Later on as the years went by, I learned to visualize this more and more. I was able to

do this because I thought about how you can turn on and off a television.

Why shouldn’t I be able to turn off “episodes that were frightening in my life?”

I am saying that you should not push things out of your life that are not choosing to

deal with, however I am saying that when you are given lessons and situations in your

life that you know you have done everything you can to learn from, then it is time

to let it go and make sure it is “Left alone”.

There is much to be said about all of our different lessons. They are so personal

and emotional and often heart-breaking. However, every lesson we are given

is given to us for the purpose of growth. We need to grow spiritually. We need to ask

ourselves, “what did I learn from this situation”? We do not want to ever stay stuck.

Knowing that today is a brand new chance at life is wonderful. Looking at the glass

half-full is far more important than seeing it half-empty. There is so much to learn.

I know that I feel much better about life with that awareness now. I have come to

a place where I refuse to give up or give in. I want to grow and learn my lessons in a

positive way. I am making sure that things I don’t need in my life to weigh me down

anymore - are “left alone”. As I leave you today on this Easter Weekend, are there things

in your life better left alone?

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