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How do you envision (y)our future?

Dear Creatrix,

How are you today?

So far, we’ve thought about a cause that’s close to our hearts, and we’ve looked at the different kinds of communities we were and maybe are involved in, in our lives – and problems that might have occurred when working with other people.

Yesterday, I started listening to a wonderful book, by Mike Dooley called The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You, and it’s a very sweet book.

And in this book, Mike said something very precisely, that I’ve never before seen pointed out so clearly.

That is, that the things in our lives that we don’t like are there for us to change them – not to accept them, deal with them or complain about them – and they are most definitely not here to punish us, but to invite us to grow beyond them.

(I listened to the audiobook, so if you’d like to know his exact words you might have to get the book yourself – it’s excellent, so it might be fun anyway).

Of course, this caught my attention because I also wrote about this yesterday, in an article about the role of the colour yellow in our lives and how we can use it to get in touch with our feelings and emotions and our unconditional love.

And of course, all of this is relevant for today’s lesson – because it’s easy to think there are so many problems in this world – more than we could possibly ever solve – or that we don’t have what it takes to address things, others haven’t dared to change, or that we simply don’t know what to do about the problems we encounter.

If we think that way, though, we might also feel like we need to turn away and just make the best of what we’ve got. But we’re not here to just get by. And the reason why we don’t feel good when we complain about a problem or turn away from it instead of solving it, is that our highest self knows that that is not in our best interest.

We’re not just here to arrange ourselves with what is already here – we are life and a part of the great symphony of life that’s playing right now, in this moment, and we get to contribute to it and to be able to do that, fully, we need to change the things that don’t work for us.

And for this, it helps to realize that we contribute something, no matter what we do. When we turn away or complain and don’t resolve what we see and what limits us in our expression of our needs and freedoms, we create more of what we don’t want. The same is true when we just brush it over, ignore it, push it away or arrange ourselves with it or make the best of it.

So, when we become conscious of that, we can start creating the changes we actually want to see in the world – and then we can also enjoy the benefits we get from what we start to create and begin living in a more just and colourful and peaceful world.

This is also in direct alignment with the spiritual laws, that we’ll be looking at in the GROWTH chapter soon.

When we begin to see everything in our lives as it is – for example, seeing a painful situation as necessary so that we know from now on, that this is something we don’t like – then we can take everything as an opportunity to think about what we would like instead – so we can create that, and I’ll show you some examples of that works below.

So, in the last lesson, we started to think about the conflicts and problems we’ve seen in community, and today we will begin to think about how to resolve them.

And for that, I’d like to bring in the Source Archetype cards.