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IT's ALL ABOUT CHOICES

Things happen in my life because of choices I make. I am often influenced by the choices of others, but I decide.  I filter out and selectively respond to those influences of my choosing.

Once something happens--no matter why--it has happened and is irrevocable.  It was supposed to happen that way because IT DID happen that way.

I think I should try to live my life by making choices that won't adversely affect others.  I try not to judge others.

There is nothing worth doing in this life unless I choose--no matter why.  I believe that I am, and we are, all of us, exactly where we choose to be.  RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW!

I believe you are reading this because of a series of choices YOU made, to be in this exact spot, at this place in time.  As I write this right now, I made a choice to affect my life.  As you read this, your reality is being altered by these words.  There is nothing in this reality/universe that I cannot do if I make the correct series of decisions.  I have come to believe that  everyone has the power to alter reality as he chooses.

As I choose to change reality, I must remember it changes reality for everything else in this universe.  I am the most powerful human being alive.  I have the power to change reality all the time.

A man saw a bird flying and likewise yearned to fly.  He did not accept the unalterable fact that he was earth bound - he became aware that his Higher Power had given him the gift of free choice.  He created wings to enable him to fly.  "...serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."      

God has talked to me.  The Higher Power permitted me to hear.  He has shown me he has always been there.  He gave me a conscience - a Guide.  That Inner Voice I so often ignored is the Higher Power guiding me along the path.  But alas!  He has also given me the power of free will and choice.  I choose to listen or not.

I am free to take the reins at any time.  The voice will still be there - it is always there when I most need it to provide the guiding light.  Intuitive guidance.

Some people tell me that when I take control of my life, it will get worse.  It needn't.  Control of my life and happiness are not mutually exclusive.  God gives me the ability.  The Higher Power built the parts of my body from the merging of an egg and a sperm.  I got the gift of life - and if I was lucky, if I was chosen - I got a mind.  A mind free to choose the path to follow, free to hear THE voice, a conscious contact with my Higher Power.  It's my choice.

I am perfect!  I have been given the gift of free choice, and a conscious contact with the Higher Power.

My choices and beliefs may not be to your liking or what you would have me believe and do, but I AM NO LESS THAN I CHOOSE TO BE.

I begin to see myself as human, something I have never consciously realized before.  I begin to see that of all the rotten and sinful things I have ever done - the worst thing you can say about me is that I do some of those things that humans do.  I possess character defects and don't always behave the way you want me to.  I have the ability to choose for myself, but today I see I need all the help I can get.

As a society we choose to judge the present.  We decide the laws of today.  Mankind has always chosen to enact laws of some sort upon it's present moment.

I decide, moment by moment, which of those laws - both written and moral - I am going to obey.  The final judgment will go to the Higher Power for only life itself can UNFOLD the consequences of any of our actions.  To accurately judge something, we would need to know the entire reality of it - every moment of its existence - for all those moments have brought it to this point, this place in time, this NOW.

WE ARE GOING FORTH.

THE HIGHER POWER IS EVOLVING.  I am a part of it.   I am as a breath of life itself to this universe.  I have a conscious contact with reality.

I struggle to evolve.  As I have peace and equality in my heart today, I am evolving.  I am trying to make the world a better place for myself and the rest of us.

I KNOW THAT I AM.  That is the gift.  I used to think that life itself was the ultimate gift, but it's not.  A tree is alive, but the tree doesn't know it. Life would be meaningless without that conscious contact with the Higher Power.  I can see it, smell it, touch it and feel it.  I realize I am alive and a part of it all.
 

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