Someone dear to me once said, “Why do you continue to dig
through the shit? Are you looking for a pony? Because I guarantee all you’re
going to find is more shit!”
We all have life experiences to deal with. Some are
enjoyable, while others test the strength of your soul, and the testimony of
your heart. They are all learning opportunities, but no one ever said it was
going to be easy. If they did, I’m pretty sure they would be high tailing into
hiding. Plus, there is no grade given to you by the life experience professor.
You either get it, or you don’t and get a do-over. Life repeats over and over
until you finally figure it out.
When you are in the mud and the muck, it’s hard to see the
bigger picture. It’s easy to stop looking for the way out because our
challenges tend to consume us. When I am in that space of challenge, and life
seems to be continually throwing curve balls at me that seem impossible to hit,
I start to feel like Tinker-bell when she thinks that humans don’t believe in fairies.
Her light flickers… dims like a withering flower, slowly sinking into herself.
“Quick! Clap your hands if you believe in fairies!” I’ve been clapping my hands so
furiously for so long that my hands are tired, and sore from slapping them
against each other.
It’s so easy to be a victim in our story. Where everything
happens TO us. None of it is our fault, right? “It’s THEIR fault. They did this
TO me, They MADE me react.”
Does that help you? Does it make you feel better not to own
your own stuff? Honestly, with that point of view, it makes you look like an
asshole. There’s enough assholery going around, thank you.
Eventually the wrinkles in our life story smooth out, and
life begins to get comfortable again. We can start to move past the challenges.
We climb back into the boat that’s headed toward the end of the rainbow. We
push off from the shore of self-misery.
This, my friend~ is the cycle of life.
Until you find the tools to get through your challenges with
grace and ease, you will continue to flail when you’ve fallen flat on your
face, knee deep in the shit. Until
you start taking 100% responsibility for your part in your story, you will
continue to play small, being a victim of your own self-created
destruction. Until you stop
feeling sorry for yourself and instead find something to be grateful for in
your amazing and beautiful life, you will continue to be a negative SOB that no
one wants to be around.
Do you understand yet? Don’t you see? You are the creator of
your story. This is all about you and your unique opportunity to have the power
of choice and free will. You design it. The Universe gives it to you. Good, bad or in between, end of story.
The problem is that so many of us don’t believe it. We don’t believe that we have that kind
of possibility within us. We tend to think externally. That it’s all outside of
us.
My question to you is simply this: If you knew that you had
the power to create a sweet life, full of joy, happiness and ease, would you
un-create and destroy your limiting beliefs that said otherwise?
Well, would you?
Then do it. Un-create your story. Destroy your limiting
beliefs. Let me know when that happens. Because being a victim doesn’t serve
you. Quit digging through the shit, and stop looking for that pony. It’s really
not worth it.
But you are. You are SO worth it. You are a gift, and a
blessing. So be grateful. I see your light. I see you.
