Trust

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For many of us, the new year starts with  regret. We look on where we’ve been, what we’ve gained or lost, what we have and what we want, and  often, come up short.  We review what we do and vow to do differently.  Our truth, and especially what we aren’t living of it,  leads us to conclude certain things about who we are, what we need, and what we lack.  So once again, many of us find ourselves starting off a new year holding up ideals that will make us happy. You know, because it’s worked so well  before!

What we’re missing is trust.  Trust is knowing we are love that is designed to be lived. There is no prerequisite  other than our existence–we are  the prerequisite. There is always a way to get there from here. Yet  because we see through eyes of condemnation– we are sinners, we’ve done evil, we aren’t deserving–our ignorance about who we are is something that’s hard for many of us to put aside.  We must learn to trust that what we do in ignorance only tells us about what people do apart from their truth.  When we do that, we are able to begin opening our hearts to ourselves, with no requirements to first be met. And when we allow ourselves that grace, we are able to truly share it with others.

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Yes, the road may be bumpy. Yes, we, or others, may have done many things out of  ignorance that make it hard for us to remove ourselves from that pain. Yes, we have very present reminders of our past beckoning us back.  But we aren’t just given once a year to let go and renew ourselves, but every day– heck any given moment in a day!– to walk past our hurt, and into Love. And the only thing we must do is to allow ourselves to do it.

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The funny thing about love is it’s total, complete. It is the opposite of lack, it has no deficiencies. It also can’t be compromised–we can’t identify ourselves as Right, or Hurt by Someone, or as Too Bad To Be Good.  Love requires us to choose it and nothing else.

Here is one of several places in the Bible that say there is only one God, and it’s a jealous God:

” I am the LORD, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another,
Nor My praise to graven images.” (Isaiah 42:8).

There are also many places in the Bible that hold Love above all, and  John 4:8 declares God as Love:

He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.

We generally don’t relate the two together…but why not?  If we do, then what we’re being told is that our truth is love and it’s nothing else. When we identify ourselves as being of anything but, we are lost.

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I know many people who, eschewing the often unsuccessful or transient nature of resolutions, opt to choose a word for the year. I myself am doing this for the second year.  And actually, this year my word  is not Trust, it’s  Love.  But as we have seen, it’s impossible to have one without the other. So if you are looking for happiness, looking for a new word, reaching for better, remember Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz–your happiness is already in your own back yard. Love is the only truth, and you are a creation of Love! It’s just a matter of trusting in that enough to let go of everything that tells us otherwise.  Happy New Year to you! I’m holding us all in a space of love and trust.

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