I assure my daughter, “You will always be okay, no matter what
circumstance you find yourself in, because this is the sort of person you
are.” Above all, I communicate a trust in life’s ability to take care of us
spiritually. Once we look at life as an incubator of consciousness, what is
there not to trust?
When our children sense our respect for their ability to lead the way,
this empowers them beyond measure. As they learn they are worthy of
holding our trust, this will come to mean the world to them. They will
naturally rise to our trust in them.HOW YOU DRAW MANY OF YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES
TO YOU
Life in and of itself is neither good nor bad, but neutral. However, each of
us holds the power to choose the manner in which we interpret our
experiences, which greatly affects the nature of these experiences.
Until we become aware, our interpretation of each of the things that
happen to us is made all but automatically based on ingrained patterns.
We label our world according to how we perceive what’s happening, not
because it’s really so. For instance, if we feel pain, we tend to label our
reality “bad.” In so doing, we are choosing how we feel about our pain—
such as whether to feel sad, angry, lost, or unloved. Our choices are the
result of the years of conditioning we received as children.
When you operate from the worldview that life, in the precise pattern
it unfolds before you, holds transformational lessons for you, you no
longer shun experiences. Instead, you invite them in, sensing you in
some way drew these lessons to you out of your innate longing to