Monday, February 6, 2023
It’s hard to understand how to change your life for the better because it’s hard to understand what makes that happen. You don’t create positive change by reaching for and being desperate for the future. You create positive change by connecting to the point of love, right now, in the present moment. This very moment is the absolute 0 for all change in your life. The future starts now, so how do you start?
If all you do is complain and grouse about what’s wrong, you’re inviting more of that into your future. Once you really get a hold of this truth, you start to become very careful about what ruminates in your mind and what contaminates your being. There’s a famous Psalm that states, “Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me.” I think it’s best understood this way, “Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me, when I lead with love.”
What is following you – goodness or fear? Whatever is in the forefront of your mind, and whatever energy you present in the present moment is what is leading you towards your future. How are you leading? You have to examine how you are, now. This was one of the hardest things for me to understand – that I was not a victim of my past, but a creator of it. And now, I wish to be a creator of a new and prosperous future, one that is led by and sustained with love. I want to look back on my life and see that I have stayed in good favor, kept a good attitude, and always approached each experience lovingly, especially during the test of a challenge. If you lead with love – goodness and mercy will follow you in the form of experience. Your future is being created now. How are you leading it?