Originally posted on Facebook HERE
Up early today – caught the full moon from right outside the back window. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about free will. What a gift to have free will – the ability to make our own choices and control our own actions. But, really – how free is the free will that we have as humans? Is it really free? Do we truly ever take advantage of the unconstrained free will we are all given at birth? I don’t think it’s possible. Life gets in the way. Our ego won’t let go enough to consider all the options available to us at any given moment. We have to make decisions every day. What to wear, what route to take when we’re going somewhere, how to spend our leisure time, what to eat, what to buy, who we want to spend time with, etc etc etc… and we have free will to do and say and be with anyone we choose to (as long as the people we choose to be with also want to be with us, I guess). Yet, we limit the possibilities. Our ego often won’t let us consider anything we can’t see and/or believe for ourselves first. How do you see intuition? Intuition can be hard to decipher from the wants of our ego at times. So – is this thought intuition, or is it ego? I want to quit my job and start a business could be either. I want to leave this cold weather behind and move somewhere warm is another. How can you tell which is which? Is this the pull of my intuition? Is this push/pull something coming to me from the Universe, from God – or is this something I’m just creating within my own head that will ultimately be a terrible decision? Seems like major life choices should be easy to decipher, right? Wrong. This is what makes them so hard. This is what takes our free will and shrinks it into a little, comfortable box that we tend to live our lives in. I can’t live like that. I don’t know how much time I have left, but I’m always looking to expand my knowledge, my experiences, my network, and stay open to every opportunity life gives me, no matter how crazy they might seem at first. In order to decipher whether you’re being guided by intuition or not, you need to be as close to God as possible. Conscious contact with God might be the most important thing we do in life, and if we spend any time on it at all it’s just a prayer or two here, a meditation there… I’m realizing lately how badly I’ve gotten away from what was once a daily spiritual meditation practice. The less time you spend with God, the more time your ego has to take over. The harder it is to make decision you feel good about. The longer I live, the more I realize the need to be in touch with love. To start every day in that space. To view everything with as much love and understanding and empathy as possible. Way too many angry people right now. Anger, to me, is ego-based. I’m all too aware of how close to the surface my own anger is. You have to dig deep to find the love. Personally, it’s something I have to work on every day. Start every day with love in my heart. Every day. Don’t engage the haters. Stand up for your beliefs, yes. But stay rooted in love. And stay open to every possibility, because God often has plans for you you can’t currently see for yourself. Stay open. Pay attention to your intuition. Expand what you think is possible. And let’s try to make the world better for us having been here. Always. In everything we do. Give it your all. Do the right thing, always. Give generously. Find that ocean of love we all have within us and share it with everyone you meet. What an incredible opportunity we have here on Earth. Make every moment count. We don’t have time to live any other way.
