OUT OF VICTIM INTO FREEDOM

The danger with standing in the realization that we were truly victims is that that will justify our every decision, every act, every reaction, hindering if not blocking any forward freedom. It relieves our reasoning mind from learning from our mistakes. We justify instead of rectify...then expect understanding from those adversely effected by our less than wonderful behavior.

The blinding flash of the obvious is that the reasoning mind can never get us free. We can think about this, we can talk about this till our face falls off. We will wind up knowing that we are victims, and we are excused for behaving the way we are behaving because we are victims...which will ensure that we forever stay victims because we are victims, and it is not our fault.

A victim (and we are all to some degree victims) feels s/he has a built-in, infallible excuse...and who would willingly give that up? I used to half-jokingly say that having someone to blame is perfect peace. Imagine my chagrin when I found that having someone to blame only keeps the pain alive and growing.

Accepting unto absolute surrender that we are the source of all our woes, that everything happens by invitation only, is freedom's gateway...the gateway to learning that accepting responsibility for our past without excuses is the only freedom...that's where we begin to learn to love and laugh freely.

Sexually abused children have the hardest time with this. The trouble is that it is so understandable that sexually abused children would have the hardest time with this. But sexually abused or Holocaust survivor or simply born feeling unwanted, unloved, unneeded and unappreciated...the answer is always the same: We must go beyond reason to love.

We learn to turn to a higher power. Some are blessed by being rocketed into the fourth dimension, some simply make a decision to turn themselves over to God consciousness. There we are released from our ego-victory needs. There we learn that God does not see as we see...in fact, it's paradoxical,  but it seems God sees in the exact reverse to our reasoning mind sight. That which is a curse to us, given to God, becomes our blessing.

That's where we start...our first tiny step in letting go of our want to keep a fail-safe excuse in our back pocket, i.e., our victimhood. In that higher consciousness, we  are released from the ego's need to remain a victim, excused from responsibility for our now behavior, our here and now daily being.

The paradox, of course, is that living in God consciousness we no longer need to have a fail-safe excuse...we are living free in the knowledge that God can and will intervene in our life in our  behalf.

Thank You.