"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Sarah Ban Breathnach writes in her book, "Simple Abundance,"
"For some of us the thought of trusting a power outside ourselves to help make our dreams come true is definitely a threatening conept, especially if we're used to being in control -- or rather, used to the illusion of being in control.
Many more of us go through life trapped by another illusion: that an uncaring, capricious fate determines our destiny. Shellshocked from some of the acutely miserable things that life throws our way, we are deepy afraid to believe that a loving, generous Creator supports our endeavors. We are afraid to trust that the same Spirit that created the Universe probably knows how to help us write for the grant, get the promotion, go back to school, start our new business, find the new job. Like mirrors in a carnival fun house that distort appearances, what we see with our eyes is not real. We buy in to the illusion that external events possess the ulitmate power to deny our dreams.
And we wonder why we're so unhappy?
Let go of limiting illusions that have held you back from knowing that just to be alive is a grand thing. Suspend disbelief. Experiment with a loving, supportive God that embraces even the skeptics. Today, be willing to believe that a companion Spirit is leading you every step of the way, and knows the next step."
