My sister Evie is a very gifted teacher.  She spends every school day (and more) working with 11 to 13 year-old middle school students.  Young minds benefit from her fundamental words of guidance that apply to every human being.

“We all make choices,” Evie reminds us.

Right you are, dear sister.  How often we forget that we have options!  We are making choices constantly, even in our choice to believe that we do not have options.

There is a common belief among many human beings that most of what occurs in our life is out of our hands.  As active participants in the human realm, it is not our fault.  This is the way that it has been done for thousands of years.

Coming to terms with the idea that we have the ability to pick and choose our preferences in life is a foreign concept for most of us.  It is not until we have allowed ourselves to arrive at a turning point in our journey that we can even begin to entertain the notion that we are receiving everything that we are asking for.

We are comfortable with our excuses.  We are adept at adhering to the established belief systems that justify the concept of limited control.

“These are the cards that I have been dealt.  My only wiggle room lies in my decision concerning what I will do with them.”

Who questions that?!  It makes incredible sense in our conscious mind.  It is what we have been told, what we have learned, and what we have been programmed to accept as truth.  It is the reasoning that we have been offered by the powers that be for thousands of years!  We consider this to be sound and rational advice.

What if I were to decide that I do not want to accept that any more?  What if I were to decide that I wanted to pick the ‘cards’ myself?  I would declare that fate is not the dealer.  I am.

Here would be a typical response:

“Good luck with that!”

And there it is.  The propagation of self-doubt.  Just the right dose of logic and well-defined sanity to deflate our expansion toward a sovereign birthright to choose our cards from the Universal realm of Unlimited Potential.

Until we can imprint an unconditional belief in the privilege to choose our own hand of cards, our perceived potential will remain limited.

How does one begin the process of imprinting a new belief system?  When our hearts whisper the truth and yet our mind continues to speak loudly,  forward progress can be initiated by providing the conscious and rational mind with some evidence.  Evidence for the conscious mind can offer a ‘back door’ approach to adopting a new belief system.

(Most of us have had that desire when we just want our ‘head’ to keep quiet and stop playing the ‘devil’s advocate’ every time our heart seeks a Universal Truth.)

This example may be a relevant example to consider:

“Getting fired from that job was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Of course, it may not have felt that way at the time.  It is unlikely during circumstances such as these that we even care to admit the possibility that we have chosen the cards that caused the loss of a job.

What do we accept as our truth?  Is it that we had determined this fate ourselves, but only when it is apparent, and therefore convenient to do so?  Or do we let ourselves off the hook by assigning the responsibility to a Higher Power who knew what was best for us at the time?

Isn’t there always someone else to blame, or give credit to?  Our conscious mind would have us believe so.

You are the Master Dealer.  Trusting in the Master’s hand is a process that requires your full attention.  If you do not care for the cards that you have been dealt throughout this particular round, perhaps it may be time to change the deck you are choosing from?

Try not to answer with the rational mind.  Look to your heart on this one:)

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