Reality is one of those concepts that shifts, moves and
remakes itself according to what is going on in mind in the moment. Richard Bach tells us that, “The world
is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do our sums. It is not reality, although you can
express reality there if you wish.
You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the
pages.” What fits your reality
right now?
Walt Brewer of the Central Texas Center for Spiritual Living
writes, “There is the inspiring excitement of a fresh, blank page. When we peruse our previous pages, we
can definitely identify some nonsense, some ego shenanigans and some missed
opportunities.”
Each day, each moment is a new page and we are free to write
upon it, erase, scratch out or cut and paste whatever we choose. We can write original thoughts and
desires or we can be inspired by the ideas of others.
We don’t have to wait for the permission or approval of
others. We simply become aware
that turning the page is always an option, even in midsentence. As all other options in Life, it is as
available to us as we are to it.”
Thanks for the reminder, Walt, that reality shifts and that
all I think about is not always the truth of what is going on with the
circumstance or me. There is
always another way of seeing, looking, thinking, concluding and accepting what
is going on around us.
In a special newscast in our area this last week and after
we had experienced temperatures in the triple digits, someone’s ministry
consisted of distributing cold bottles of water and Gatorade to the homeless
people downtown. I find this
extremely commendable. I am
grateful that it was being done because if they weren’t, I would probably have
to and I would not be as cheerful as the gentleman they interviewed for the
newscast.
More and more I am getting that I need to be doing what
makes me the absolute happiest.
That is what the Creator had in mind when It thought about all of
us. Another version of that
concept can be seen and heard at
Since we are all in the choir together, what not have it a
wonderful experience?
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