What Is The Lesson?

How many times have I heard myself say"I wish I could take this from you"?

How often do I take on others work in order for their life, or mine, to be "better"?

Who actually gets to decide what is better?

One of the greatest lessons I am learning in life is that my work is my work. Someone else can do it for me, in hopes that I won't have to.  Yet in the end the lesson is my lesson and I have to do the work.  As I take these courses of higher learning there has been the desire to audit this or that class in order to get to the higher level.  Yet I find myself enrolled in the classes that are mine to attend. Far too often I have been so attached to the cause rather than the lesson. I often miss the core reason for the class in the beginning.  I found this passage in "The Dream Book" by Bethards this morning and the following passages really spoke to me.  

"Life is school; we are here only to learn and grow.  We are taught by all people and all situations.  Be enthusiastic; we are going to go through it anyway.  Lessons never change until you learn them, so might as well get in and work through them NOW".  

How often I have asked myself what the heck is going on and have I not already taken this class before? Don't I have the degree to  prove it? How easy it is to be so caught up in anger, fear, bitterness, revenge, and hurt, to miss the lesson.  Love, I find is the answer to the questions in life.  Will revenge in this situation change what happened?  Will bitterness help me sleep any better at night?  Will anger help me to release all this energy I have tied up inside and pick up the goodness that is always around me at any given point?  In those times I have acted out on the need to be angry, bitter, or take revenge did it make me feel any better?  If so, is that what I want to send out into the world knowing that whatever I send out comes back to me?

I was talking with a friend this week about playing "God" and so often I have decide that what I want can't happen so I choose not to even try and call it in.  Let us step for a moment into our "history class" of all those things we have called in. What have we called in that didn't happen, and how many times when we did our work, did  we find the thing we were asking for all along?  Yet we keep postponing the lesson in hopes it will go away.  I don't know about your history, but I find that by the time it circles around again it has picked up momentum and the lesson is even LARGER. 

Be enthusiastic, we never get it all done, we might as well enjoy the ride. 

I love you 

Allen






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