This is one of my top 10 favorite meditations, especially when things are just not going the way "I" think they should. In other words, when I forget who's in charge.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
How awesome is our power, personally, to choose our situation and our responses to any situation, to every situation. We will feel only how we choose to feel, no matter the circumstance. Happiness is as free an option as sorrow.
Perceiving our challenges as opportunities for positive growth rather than stumbling blocks in our path to success is a choice readily available. What is inevitable-a matter over which we have no choice-is that difficult times, painful experiences will visit us. We can, however, greet them like welcome guests, celebrating their blessings on us and the personal growth they inspire.
No circumstance demands suffering. Every circumstance has a silver lining. In one instance you may choose to feel self-pity; in the next, gladness.
We do not always feel confident about our choices, even when we accept the responsibility for making them. Prayer and meditation, guidance from God, can help us make the right choices every time.
I will relish my freedom to choose, to feel, to act. I and only I can take it away.
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
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Lovely meditation. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletethis is so very true! i always choose to learn a lesson from anything that comes my way! and woman you are a bread baking machine! how did the people at church like it?
ReplyDeleteHow interesting, yesterday on my post, I wrote about a woman I met at my doctor's office. I listened to her, but found no words. I doubt she would have been open to what I just read here, but I certainly am. Thank you for the wisdom of this post. I am signing up to follow your blog because this truly hit home with me.--Inger
ReplyDeleteWonderful words. Thank you
ReplyDeleteWe do not always feel confident about our choices, even when we accept the responsibility for making them. Prayer and meditation, guidance from God, can help us make the right choices every time.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this quote :-)
~Ron