“Who am I?” Blog #64
What keeps me from going backwards today?
Am I making excuses for what I am doing?
I know that I must take 100% responsibility for where I AM at today IF my life is not working
for me….. ONLY I CAN CHANGE THAT. So I must HAVE A PLAN.
I remember a beautiful excerpt from a movie I saw where a nanny was taking care of a
familys’ only little daughter. She had been neglected because they were too busy with
their own lives to spend quality time with her. Every morning the nanny started the little
girls day out by taking her in her lap and holding her, soothing her, comforting her. She
kept telling the the little girl in a calm, inspiring, loving way, “Repeat after me”,
“You is Kind. You is smart. You is important.” She said this to the little girl every day.
We all wish someone could hold us lovingly and say that to us right now.
I also think about the famous writer Marianne Williamson. In her book, “Return to Love”
she writes about our deepest fear. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our
darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? YOU are a child of
God. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel
insecure around you! We were meant to shine as children do. We were born to make
manifest the glory of God within us. It’s not just in some, it’s in everyone. So as we let
our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatially liberates others….”
So now WHO AM I today? I wake up, just like you do every single morning with different
thoughts, different concerns and different hopes for my day. At some point, my concern
takes over my optimistic outlook. This is human nature and every one of us have been
there. Sometimes I have to quickly run outside, I have to take deep breaths as I start to
walk one way for fifteen minutes and then back. All the while walking, I ask for HIS
direction to surround me in light. As I am walking and deep breathing, I find timely
intuition and deep seeded wisdom that was clouded over by worry. I see now where the
fork in the road comes up. I tell myself I cannot dwell on what I myself cannot change. I
cannot change an outcome of an event that already happened. I cannot change
another person’s mind. However, more than anything though, I can change who I am.
I can “Let go, and let God”. I can rise above my worry with my own decision to stop
building walls and start building bridges. I can stop labeling people and deciding the
outcome of something I have not even taken part of! I can definitely pray not just once,
but throughout my day. I can call a new friend, even though I am afraid of rejection. I
can decide: “ I AM kind, I AM smart, I AM important.” This is WHO I AM This bring me a
“calm” immediately. Puts my life in perspective. I tell myself, I will build bridges today
and not build walls of rejection. Because I am changing my attitude today, this will
reflect on my own character and it sums up who I am.
Here’s a fact of life. Every single one of us has our own stuff going on. People are
attracted to people that are optimistic, positive and get up and start over!
I AM non-negotiable when it comes to my faith in God.
I have come from darkness into the light, and I will not go back to darkness ever again.
I believe in the goodness of God and do what I can to help others in need. There is
darkness out there, make no mistake. There are evil temptations and negative energy in
so much of what appears to be good! Yet, HIS LOVE, LIGHT AND LAUGHTER CONQUERS ALL
DARKNESS. Whether movies, or our music or daily advertising, choose carefully what to
bite on. I HAVE TO make a choice for my higher good. NO OTHER CHOICES.
Now I am going to tell you a true story about the amazing, unbelievable, teenage son of
King Louis the 16th of France. He was just a teenager and yet, look what happened to
him. His father was taken from the throne and his young son, the prince, was taken away
by those who dethroned the King. There was much fear that the son would try to take
over for his father. So they took him far away and decided to destroy him morally. They
took him to a community where they exposed the young teen to every filthy and vile
thing that life could offer. They tried to feed him the richest foods that would quickly
make him a slave to his appetite. They exposed him to lewd, lusty and sex filled women.
They exposed him to dishonor and distrust. He was surrounded 24 hours a day to
everything that could drag the soul of a man as low as one could slip. For over six
months they gave him this kind of treatment. Yet, not once did the young teenager
buckle under pressure. Finally after all this intensive temptation, they questioned him.
“Why did you not partake? These things were meant to give you pleasure, satisfy your
lust, they were the most desirable and would provide the ultimate pleasure, they could
be all yours!.”
The young boy spoke quietly, “I cannot do what you asked, for I was born to be a King.”
As a teenager he absolutely knew who he was. In this crazy, conflicted, immoral world -
Now is the time to stand in front of the mirror and say Who am I?, with honest intent.
Starting today I ask myself; What am I giving in to? What do I stand for? What are my
moral beliefs and how have they been challenged today? Here’s a quick reflection, sit
quietly, ask to be surrounded in Gods light. Ask for HIS direction.
What hard task am I asked to do today to bring about MY highest good?
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