Open your ears, and open your heart. Sometimes all you listen to is yourself. Sometimes, it is a full-time job to tune in to someone sitting across from you, for your mind thinks it knows everything. Your mind knows only what it thinks it knows or is used to. In this life, you want to go deeper and wider. It is for you to get out of old ways of thinking. Even when old ideas are not propitious for you, you may still like to hold on to them for old time’s sake.
Beloveds, in holding onto old thoughts, you jam up the airwaves before you. You don’t get anywhere. The thing is that you do want to get somewhere. What has been may not be the direction to go in now. Let not the past be an impediment to you. If you are holding onto the past, it won’t let you go forward. You are holding onto something that is no longer. Better to move forward on your own volition. With or without your say, life is going to move you forward. The past is important to you, yet you have to move on.
No more digging in with your feet. Be light on your feet, and go forward. Everyone has to step ahead into new territory. Even if you stay in the same house in the same town with the same people, it is a new day dawning. Be on the forefront of your life and be not a straggler.
There are changes before you. You don’t wait to be thrust ahead. Better you jump a step or two ahead. Better you offer yourself grace. One way or another, you are bound to move forward. Being bound to move forward means you have to let go of attachment to the past, the wonderful past as well as the not so wonderful past. It is no favor to yourself to be entrenched in the past. The past isn’t here now except in your thinking about it. Try as you may, you can’t justify holding on to the past.
Love now. Love what is in front of you right now. Welcome it. If you cannot welcome the present, at least make peace with it. This is your life. Make it a blessing. Right now is the only life you have.
Whatever the weather, sunny or freezing, whether it is the weather you want, you walk in it. Whatever the ground is under you, mire or sand or macadam, that’s what you have to walk on, and walk you must. You are an alive being. Where is it written that anything will stay the same? You can call what is right in front of you as blossoming, unfurling, following a wise path. The sun moves along, and so must you keep up with the revolutions of the sun.
I do not ask you to give up in life. I ask you to keep moving forward in it. You are part of a moving throng. I don’t want you trampled. I would like you to meet your life right where it is. When there is a change you do not want, there is, nevertheless, a gift for you. There is progress in front of you. Even when the road is dark and you are not sure where you’re going or what it is for, it is for you. Somewhere within, there is the light of God shining on you. There is merit in it. Find it. What is undesirable to you also holds a gift for you. Dear Ones, do not refuse gifts. Whatever the wrappings, open them, and say Thank you.
You don’t have to have your mind made up. You can’t have your mind made up beforehand what life has in store for you and what the gifts are ahead. What you can know is that there is a gift for you. Maybe you wanted tinsel, yet beneath the tarnish you see, at the very least, there is the gold of new wisdom for you and a leap forward that is for you to discern. It is here. Within you is the key that opens the treasure.