Sometimes you feel you cannot stand even one more moment of whatever it is you are going through. The situation is intolerable to you, beloveds, for you have judged yourself a hapless helpless victim. Do not judge. Do not judge yourself a victim. Do not judge yourself a martyr. Do not judge.
By far and large, you are a self-announced victim of your own thoughts, or you might prefer to say because of your lack of foresight and your preponderance of innocence. Yes, this is also true, yet it is wiser for you to consider yourself responsible for the situation you got yourself into and responsible for continuing to serve a self-imposed sentence of victimhood. You are the announcer of your own wounds.
If something is intolerable to you, why continue to carry its banner?
Do not think that I am saying life is a breeze. I say you are the one setting the price you pay. Beloveds, do not pay by suffering. Suffering is off-track. Do not accept suffering as a fact.
Often you think you trade one suffering for another. Sometimes you think if only. There are so many if only’s. Somehow, one way or another, you led yourself into a trap. You may think you fell into it when you may well have shoved yourself in.
Life is made of choices. Much of the time you have no idea what you are choosing and, sometimes, not even that you are choosing.
Sooner or later, you may have the idea in life that you pay the piper. You may have the idea that sooner or later, life simply grabs you by the neck. You may be someone who thinks too much, or you may not think at all.
You really can’t sit out this dance, dear ones. You are a partner in your life. Somehow, somewhere, you incurred.
This is not something for you to sit and feel guilty about. Sense of guilt is a waste of life. Guilt certainly is not the purpose of your life. Guilt is not a worthy objective to put your attention on, for sense of guilt is a stalemate that keeps you where you are. Throw off the whole halter of guilt and become responsible for moving life forward.
Whatever situation you got yourself into that creates suffering is for you to change by how you think – how you point out your own life to yourself.
Whatever installment of your life you are presently meeting, there is another installment waiting for you. You suffer two quandaries:
1. Life stays the same.
2. Life doesn’t stay the same.
Either way is painful. You want to keep your life the same, and/or you want to make your life different.
You have discovered that when life takes a stand, you can't budge it. You cannot empirically control it. This makes you a human being living life in the world. Sometimes, life is the way you want it, and sometimes life is the opposite of the way you want it. You suffer change in your life, or you suffer feeling stuck.
What if you didn’t have to have the idea that suffering is your due? I will tell unequivocally that suffering is not your due. Love is your due. Start loving yourself now. The more you carry love in your heart, the more love you will feel, and the more genuine your love will be. Love is not meant to be something you have to sustain. If you were to let go of whatever holds your love back, your love would shine on its own. You are made of My love. You are the very existence of My love. You were cast in My image, yet you have taken on a blurred image and called it you.
Instead of trying so hard to rectify life’s turmoil, perhaps you could let go of it. You could shake it off your shoulders and make a bee-line for your life’s purpose. Your life’s purpose is definitely not to suffer. Your purpose is greater than merely to salvage your life.
You are to shine My Light so that all may see. What holds you back but your readiness and entertainment of this and that which you call suffering. Undo the past, and come over to Me. How about now?