So
you just pulled up to the Universe’s Drive-Through Window, and the voice in the
speaker says, “Your order, please.”
Are
you going to order the same stuff you usually order? “Yeah,” you say, “give me
a helping of anxiety, some seasoned wretchedness, and a supersized cup of
despair!”
“Ah,
the usual!” says the voice. “We have a special going today: a heaping portion
of uselessness at no extra charge. Please pull ahead to the next window.”
So
the Universe hands you more anxiety, wretchedness, and despair. Plus, a huge
free helping of uselessness. With fries.
And you are glad.
That’s
a simplification of how your life may have been going—up until now. You are
getting exactly what you ordered.
“But,”
say you, “I didn’t order that!”
I
beg to differ.
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At
some deep level, you did.
The
concept of taking personal responsibility for your life is one that is probably
foreign to you. All your life you have believed that you were affected by the
world out there. You believed that you have no more power over the course of
your life than does a feather in the wind.
That
sort of thinking is a mistake.
And
mistakes, as noted in A Course in
Miracles, are to be corrected, not punished.
Once you decide to open to change, you are going to find much of your present
thinking challenged, and if you want to be prosperous, you will find that
thinking will [need to] be changed.
Here’s
a shocker for you: At some level, buried deep in your subconscious, you may
truly believe that you are only worthy of worry and woe.
You may have received
an early massive injection of guilt. Somehow, you may have the idea that you
were unworthy of abundance and prosperity.
But
you are totally worthy! All you have to
do is change your order.
Why
not start today?
---Alan Batten for Unity of Charlotte
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