About my blog

I am the single parent of two girls, and I have to pat myself on the back. I have done a miraculous job. I have been quite successful. Now, how you measure my success is up to you. However, I will tell you that my children are happy and healthy. My youngest has her own mind, she is independent, and does well in school. My oldest is disabled. She has spent most of her life in hospitals, but she is now happy and healthy. Parenting is becoming more and more challenging. Not only am I single Mom, but I am a single woman, and I have been through a lot to say the least. It has not been easy. I have had the drug addict abusive boyfriend who came back more than once, the husband that disappeared, I have been on welfare, sat by the hospital bed of my oldest child, gone back to school and studied for midterms and finals in hospital rooms, started my own business and received a masters degree. Sound like a lot? This is only some of my life experiences. The greatest thing about all of my experiences is that I have learned from all of them, and they have made me who I am today. I do believe that I have tips and advice to offer. We all have stories to share. I hear women struggling through relationships and parenthood. I hear men trying to figure out how to raise their children alone. I am hear to share what I have done that works, the mistakes that I have had to learn from and offer tips and advice. I do not believe that my way is the only way. I can just share what I know to be true for me. I invite you to make your own judgment call. How we live our lives is how our children will most likely live theirs.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Unwavering Thoughts of Your Wanting

Seeking the approval of others places a veil over our eyes, which prevents us from seeing the truth. We become incapable of seeing the love or the belief that others actually have in us as well as our own brilliance. We step away from the truth of who we are. Many of us pray really hard, and go to church believing that being good will show The Great Spirit that we are deserving, Spirit will grant us our wishes, and take care of us. Then tragedy hits and we wonder why. We become angry and resentful, and turn away from Spirit as well as ourselves. When we turn away from Spirit, we no longer acknowledge our true selves. I will tell you the why to the tragedy. I cannot tell you specifically why your particular tragedy happened, but what I can tell you is that it did not happen because you were not good enough. We do not get miracles because of the way we live our lives. Spirit does not care about whether we are right or wrong. Spirit is not in a position of approving or not approving. Spirit approves of us always not matter what. It is we who do not approve. Spirit wants us to have an amazing experience and does not decide what is amazing based on what we did or did not do. We have the total power of choice. Right and wrong is irrelevant. I have looked back through my life and seen that no matter what the situation that arose, I was excited, I felt big and strong and then I waivered and shrank to smallness. This is when I did not get what I wanted. I had to approve of me and believe that I deserve what I wanted. Just look at children. They are unwavering about their desires. They do not even understand when we say no. They are the closest to heaven, because they just go there. We have had years of experience and training to teach them that their dreams will not make it. And, so we continue the cycle by teaching them. We tell them no, you cannot do that, what will others think, you have to be good or else. Do we really support their dreams? How can we when we do not support our own, and we are always telling them what is not possible. We squash them before they even get out of the gate. I use to wait for Spirit to say yes you can, here you are, go for it you deserve it. When Spirit all along was saying, “I have given you talents beyond imagine, use them and be fruitful.” However, I use to be unable to hear or see it, because of the veil that was over my eyes. I would get really close to my destination and then I would sabotage myself, and say, "No I cannot." I did not really think that I deserved it. I use to live in a place of lack, non-deserving, and void of self-love. I did not think that I was good enough. Our standards of ourselves are actually too low. For the next 30 days or at least until the end of the year, I challenge you to NOT think a single negative thought, to be unwavering in the belief in yourself. Do not allow doubt to filter into your mind, and if it does sing it a song of love to make it disappear. Think and feel only those things that you truly desire to happen in your life. Allow yourself to play with feeling your desires. See them in your mind’s eye, feel them, and write about them. Let all of your thoughts and feelings be consumed by them. Let me know what you experience.

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