THE EVOLUTION OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS

Every year I find in my daily reading the scrap of an Agnes cartoon that I tore out of the newspaper on this day in 2009. It reads: "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." It is a partial quote of Eckhart Tolle.

This backs up my blinding flash of the obvious that everything that happens to us happens by our own personal invitation and by our invitation only. This is one of the most helpful shortcuts we have to get to gratitude, the base of humility, the healer of our pain.

The shortcut is simple...not easy, just simple: The instant we feel resistant, we shoot our Thank You prayer. That prayer eases our resistance and opens our mind to question how did we invite this?, what is really going on?, is what we're feeling really about that which is happening here and now?

In other words, it takes our focus off the negative, our perceived problem and how disrespected we're feeling...a mental and spiritual shutdown, and puts it on the positive Thank You...an opener.

I'm convinced the only reason we don't do this quicker, more often, as we breath, is because it takes the onus off our ego-identified offender, thus depriving us of our self-justified poor, pitiful, put-upon me feeling of victim.

We must decide what we really want...for our offender to be punished, or for us to go free.  It's amazing what a tough choice our ego-victory minds make that.

"Choose ye this day whom ye shall serve."

Thank You.