CHOICE AND CHANGE

 Who is Choosing
 
In every culture, and in every age, people have
 prayed for change, and those prayers have been
 answered.

 HOW THE UNIVERSE ANSWERS THE PRAYER
 FOR CHANGE

 Prayers for change are answered when the winds
 of change in your life pick up speed and force, and
 you enter a state of flux. In that state of flux, you
 have choices to make, because everything seems
 to be up for grabs. Things that were once taken for
 granted are called into question. New possibilities
 arise; old possibilities shake. The sand shifts under
 your feet.

 But real change is a change not in the state of ex-
 ternal affairs, anyway. Real change is a change of
 CHOICE in relation to the external world, in relation
 to the presented options. Changes in CHOICE re-
 sult in changes in life; this is the only way change
 occurs. For example, a person loses weight if,
 when confronting the fork in the road called a piece
 of pie, they don't eat it. A person gains weight if,
 at that same fork in the road, they take the oppor-
 tunity to have two pieces of pie when normally they
 only have one. This is how changes of choice, when
 confronting familiar options, result in changes of
 body weight.

 As a result of your prayer for change, the number
 of options may be increased, the variety of options
 may be multiplied, and new options may appear more
 quickly; but you will experience change ONLY if you
 make a different kind of choice when confronting the
 options that the wind of flux brings into your life.

 We've all seen it happen: The winds of change can
 bring many possibilities to your doorstep, but that
 does not guarantee that the choices you make
 among them are new and fresh choices. You could
 be presented with a vast array of new options,
 and you could still make the same old choices.

 So, when a person prays for change, what they
 are really praying for is a chance to re-do a
 choice and choose DIFFERENTLY this time.
 That means, they are praying that they them-
 selves will make a different choice; that's really
 what the prayer is for.

 WHO IS CHOOSING?

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 Change is choice -- it's up to you. WHAT do you
 want? WHY do you want it? And, OUT OF what
 you want, what will you CHOOSE? The answer is
 in the mirror of your choice of self-identification:
 WHO am I?

 Beloved friends, consider your rightful, deserving
 relationship to beauty in all your choosings. When
 you pray for something higher, when you yearn for
 improvement, the universe might give you some-
 thing "too beautiful to choose." What that means is,
 your habits of ego-identification will not PERMIT you
 to choose it. For example, you think, "I'm not wor-
 thy," "It will never work," "People can't be trusted,"
 etc. What those statements amount to, for all
 practical purposes, is a "no" to beauty -- a "no"
 to "outrageous" positive change.

 Who do you think you ARE? That determines
 a great deal. If you identify with the ego, you
 will not choose beauty. This is an issue of "inte-
 grity." The ego tells you, "Who I am is not beau-
 tiful and that is WHY I cannot choose beautiful."

 Recognize the simple fact that the more beauti-
 ful the choice on the buffet, the more ego-mind
 will recommend you reject it. And, the ego ob-
 jects to the more beautiful REASONS for choos-
 ing, yes? Such as, choosing for real love, for
 ego-transcendence, for God, for others. There-
 fore, if we listen to the ego, we do not feel ready,
 willing, able, worthy to choose the higher things
 for which we prayed on bended knee. "Many are
 called but few CHOOSE."

 Know that that feeling of unworthiness is a trick;
 KNOW that you have the right to choose some-
 thing beautiful, because you ARE beautiful.

 Think, oh bright and shining ones: Who are you?
 Everything unfolds from that. Remember who God
 made you to be; know who you truly are; then be
 true.


The writer of this article, David Truman, is the founder of the Living Love Fellowship. If you want to read more of his writing, visit the Soul Progress website