What you see is what you get. You may see that you are surrounded with challenges. That’s how you see it. I do not ask you to kid yourself. Life in the world is not always easy. Sometimes My children find life very difficult.

You can rearrange your thoughts and come from a vaster vision. At present, you can see only so far.

What I am suggesting is that you be open to the possibility that even on the hardest days of the drama you play a part in, life is a blessing. Certainly life on Earth is strewn with blessings. Life is a gift you are given. Even what you would undo if you could has the earmarks of a blessing within it. When the blessings are hidden, you can look for them.

Nothing is the undoing of you unless you kowtow to that idea and hold yourself up as forlorn. Naturally, you focus on your life, yet there are other lives out there, and you can get your mind off yourself and become your own blessing. It is inadvisable for you to look for fault. It is inadvisable for you to be on the look-out for anything you don’t desire.

Yet My children seem to be in waiting for misfortune of one kind or another to drop at their feet. Instead, anticipate good fortune, health, and sunshine. You can do it. Have you been waiting for the doldrums? Have you been waiting for an axe to fall? Have you been currying the favor of what you call mistakes?

Make way for happiness. Encourage happiness. Bet on it.

Misfortune is that which you name misfortune. Why not look forward to something wonderful being strewn in your path? Get rid of tension. You don’t have to have it. Get out of the past. Do not let the past foretell your life. You have a lot to choose from. Choose that which you would like. Choose to go in the direction. Otherwise, you throw rocks before you.

When rocks get in your way, you can perhaps remove them, or you may remove some of them, or you can go around them. Perhaps you can build a rock-garden and fill it with flowers.

This is not just talk. I am not saying all this to hear myself talk. There is something of value for you here. I am suggesting that you stop chewing your nails. You can only be defeated when you say you are. In any case, you are to move on. There is no percentage in getting yourself stuck.

What sense does it make for you not to be your own cheerleader? Discomfort is not the end of the world. Even with discomfort, you move on.

All of life does not appear as a white-glove affair.

As you accept life as it comes, you also let go of it. It is not for you to immerse yourself in mud. Even within the mud, you could find a diamond. Might as well look for a diamond rather than a shard of glass to cut yourself on.

Life is an adventure, one adventure after the other. The world is seen as opposites. Whatever roughness you may be experiencing now also has its opposite. If you are sad, you can be happy. If you are ill, you can be well. There isn’t anything you cannot be. You have choice.

Accepting life as it comes is a starting point. You go on from there. There is a horizon before you, and you can walk right up to it. You can reach it. If you can’t reach it today, you can reach it tomorrow. Tomorrow could bring you great blessings. No need to convince yourself otherwise.
 
Relish life. It’s yours to love.