dailydatewithgod

What we focus on expands.  What we pay attention to attends to our minds.  If I am focusing on the problems in my life, it is no wonder that I find myself in a state of pain and discomfort.  First of all, the mind that is focusing on the problem cannot be the same mind to get me out of the problem.  I need intervention. This is where my connection to God comes in.  I must ask God for help to intervene in my thinking.  The quickest way for me to do this is turn my attention to what I am grateful for.  I am not saying I want to do this or that I am pretending that there aren’t difficult things in my life to face, but if I am focused on them I cannot see outside of them.  I need to renew my mind, open it up something more than what it is seeing.  Then I can face the situation or “the problem” with a greater power.  Besides, focusing on my fortunes allows me time to breathe.  It gives me the moment to recognize that in this very moment all is well.  Many years ago I came across this simple affirmation:  “The universe is abundant and all my needs are being met.”  For someone who grew up with a lot of anxiety and fear around money, who found themselves unemployed without much savings or a real plan as of that moment of how I was going to make it through the next few months ahead, I needed a new perspective.  First, I had to get into gratitude: sometimes this means saying it out loud, writing it down or telling another person.  Then I could look at the affirmation and recognize its truth.  The universe is abundant–I see it all around me in nature.  And in that moment all my needs were being met.  If I could hold on to that belief for that moment and that day I was able to walk through every time the fear thoughts would enter my mind about having to move back home and live on my parents’ couch.    The next several months flew by and as I got into action in my life I managed to enter another job in a different profession.  When I did, my whole perspective had changed and my relationship to my work changed.  Then, when I found myself unemployed again 2.5 years later I was not as overwhelmed by fear.  My prayer for you today is whatever “problem” you are facing that you have the courage to bring it to God and ask for a new way of seeing things and then begin to think of your fortunes (gratitudes).  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen