So, my phone asked me to update an app. Simple enough. Right? Except when I restarted my phone my home screen was totally different. There was a bunch of stuff there that I didn’t want and the apps I use regularly were nowhere to be found. (Well, Phil found them for me.) I don’t enjoy change very much. I was quite aggravated!
Now that I’ve got the apps on my home screen that I want and the others shoved into oblivion, I’m feeling better. And I noticed for the first time, that all my apps look better and are faster. *sigh* Change is good. Yes, I said it. Change is good. It’s the getting settled into the change – the adapting – the resilience that causes the struggle.
Resilience. Sounds simple enough yet feels like hitting a wall at 100 miles/hour. An abrupt stop requires our immediate attention and full attention. With that attention, we can fuss and cuss and struggle, or we can find a way around or through. The key rests within the length of time we grant ourselves for fussing and cussing and struggling.
Once we realign our perspectives to the new truth of things, we get back into the flow. And once back into the flow, things flow more easily. Maybe in a new direction than we were expecting (darn those expectations!) or on a whole new playing field – either way, we move forward.
Those changes result from choices we make or from choices others make. Those changes show up when life happens. Wherever there is a struggle, resilience is waiting in the wings to assist.
What’s the struggle in your life right now? Finances? Politics? Not knowing the next step to take in your journey in the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual realms? Relationships? Self-esteem? (To name a few possibilities.)
We notice the struggle and feel helpless, frustrated or angry. I’m asking you to now notice the struggle in a new way. Notice this struggle not as something to avoid or conquer, but as a gift. What?!?! No way!
Yes, a gift. A sacred gift. The struggle is evidence of a shifting point! That shifting point offers the opportunity to re-engage in life in a totally new way! Restate the struggle from struggle to shifting point in your awareness. Instead of, “I’m struggling with finances.” Say, “I’m at a shifting point with my finances.” Relationships? Say, “I’m at a shifting point with this relationship.” Politics? Say, “This country is at a shifting point regarding politics.” Next step? Say, “I’m at a shifting point within my spiritual journey.” Self-esteem? “I’m at a shifting point with my awareness of self.”
Can you feel the difference? That’s resilience kicking in!
Now, let’s lock and load resilience into our awareness and into our actions. Love opens doors closed to struggle. Actions not based in love base themselves in anguish. Resilience is love in action. Resilience leans upon love and love’s resilience grants new opportunities.
Say, “I’m at a shifting point and love leads the way.” Resilience is love taking the time to find a new perspective. Resilience powers love’s intent and Divine Source opens a new doorway. The Universe responds and brings sacred gifts to you now.