CHOICE AND CHANGE
Posted on May 28th, 2007
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Living Love Fellowship
Living Love Fellowship
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?
top 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, Amadon, is the founder of the Living Love Fellowship. If you want to read more of his writing, visit the Soul Progress website
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