Musing No. 5: Choose

I create my own reality.

I choose love.

I am love.

I have felt like a victim to the powers that be. To the happenings of the world that feel dark and corrupted.

I've felt vulnerable. At times, hopeless. This hasn't been for a short period, or at a shallow level. The impact is leaving its mark. Almost feeling like it's changing my identity. I sometimes don't recognize myself - how I respond to and take part in the world.

Can this, and I, really change simply by altering my thinking? By adjusting my perceptions. Making a decision to see myself, choices, and options differently.

I create my own reality. I can choose darkness and despair; fear. Or I can choose light and joy; love. I can choose. It doesn't change the circumstances in which I find myself. It does change how I respond to them. And doesn't this transform everything? Maybe not immediately, but eventually.

The series of decisions I make from a place of lack lead me somewhere different than the decisions I make from a place of abundance. A place of trust. Not to mention the journey. And this very moment.

How powerful to realize that, starting in this moment, I can reshape my life. By committing to love, rather than fear.

I hesitate. Why?

Because it feels both too hard and too simple.

What if I just try it? Experiment. Today I will play with doing my very same life from the place of acceptance, trust, and love.

What do I have to lose? What do I have to gain?

And so it is.