The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action.They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”
- Deepak Chopra
God is life, in life, and creator of life. The essence of that life, is love. Life is love, as God is love, and both are actualized in trusting and allowing the on-going happening of everything. Life is not just a random continum of actions on a lateral timeline. It is a mysterious awesome intelligent design.
And, if, when, we do just let it be, allow life to flow, to happen, we experience that intelligent design, which is designed by the greatest love there is. When we allow life to happen, without our fear getting in the way and blocking through judging, we can and will experience the most wonderful life. We can trust that life is good and can be trusted.
If we stop judging ourselves, each other and everything down to the tiniest minutae of life and open our hearts, minds and lives to allow, embrace and choose to be open to what each encounter is saying to us, we will find our lives will move in a radically new direction.
We can trust and embrace the greatest adventure of our lives. If we take our hands off the steering wheel of our lives and allow life itself, which has a more profound intelligence than we, to lead us, it will steer us into the greatest joy, the most awesomeness that we can't even imagine right now.
The only thing that prevents us from experiencing this greatest of adventures is our blockage of it through our fear and judgment. If we in our fear, judge and attempt to control what is happening to us, we alter the paths of our lives. We do this - and I mean, we all do this, because we think we can make our lives somehow better than that which God - or life itself - would design. I honestly think we do this innocently because most of us don't realize that God is really there in all the many big and little ways of life.
If we listen to our own truth, to our own sense of joy or despair, we will find our way back onto the path that leads us into this perfect life, this awesome design. We are part of it in a most remarkable, awesome way. We just have to trust in faith and there's no judgment in trust.
Perhaps we do it because we were taught how to "discern" or judge any given thought, motive, happening and are also taught how we SHOULD respond. All of this assumes a negative outlook on life. It distrusts life. It distrusts God. In fact, it downright writes God out of the storyline. Our ideas of God are very ancient and need some significant updating in order to experience this greatest adventure called life.
If we judge, we block life. So, it is wiser not to judge. I think one of the most fundamental questions we can ask ourselves is, "Do we see God as lover or God as judge?" Do we believe and trust life to be good or do we fear that it is dangerous, punitive, cruel. Do we believe life is about creation, about being alive and do we see freedom as a part of that "aliveness?" Or, do we believe in spiritual slavery. Is God our lover, our friend, or a cruel taskmaster, slave master, judge?
We are happier because God will make our lives happy because, quite simply, God is love and love feels good and is good. Life is good. Life is sweet. Life is the ultimate adventure, the ultimate experience. It is what we came here to experience. If we judge every single little thought or deed, blocking some and allowing others all because we were taught this or that is good or bad, then we aren't living an authentic or real life. We are living to a script written by someone else or an entire hierarchy of power brokers a long time ago for another time, another place, another occasion.
So, today, just for the fun of it consider how you are judging in this moment. What are you judging against, what are you allowing to happen? You may see even just a glimmer of how much life you are blocking. Release all the life you are holding captive by your fearful judgment of it. What are you afraid of? What would happen if you did this that you are afraid of? Then, consider what would happen if you allowed life to happen.
Certainly, as you allow life to happen, your life will bloom, come alive. It may become more challenging. Yes, and maybe even terrifyingly new and different, unpredictable, but alive in so many ways. Life will steer you where you are meant to go. It's not an intellectual endeavor. It is a faith journey - faith in the goodness of life itself, faith in the love God has for you and wants you to experience, faith in joy, in love, and in the greatest adventure of all: Life itself.
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