An Open Hand

Be careful of your prayers. When there is something in your life and it is exactly what you want you must be careful how you attempt to keep it. When you pray to have that person, that thing or that experience stay the way that it is, you put chains around it. You cut off the free flow of energy that makes it so exciting and so valuable. We must learn to be thankful and grateful for what we enjoy and love but we must also learn to hold on to things with an open hand. It’s very difficult to do because we are so conditioned to  attaching ourselves to so many things and so many people. We have to allow the energy to flow or we damage the experience of that place, thing, or that person . Our intentions may not be to cause harm but it is still producing negative results.

There are no time limits in the spiritual realm. We humans set up time as a gauge to track our experiences. The universe does not track our experiences in that way. There are experiences that we are to have which may only last for a day. There are other experiences that may only last a week. There are other experiences that may last your lifetime. Since we enjoy them and feel comfortable in them we want them to stay forever. That’s not the way God designed things. There is order in God’s design. We must learn to  walk in the experience and/or sit in that experience for however long God has designated and then we must be prepared to move on. We must allow for new experiences to enter but there must be room for them to do so.

God plans events in our life to be used as stepping stones toward our divine growth. We often confuse those stepping stones and want to make them landing pads. This is not what God has decreed for us. We enjoy staying on the stepping stone and we believe that we have reached our highest point for our life. We get comfortable and we don’t want to leave that place. We want to stay right here, but that’s not the place that God has designed for you to stay. God’s dream for your life is greater than any dream you could ever have. Allow God to show you that dream and free yourself so that you are able to live the dream that has been designed for you. Stop trying to modify God’s dream for you. When you do that you fall short of all the love, the goodness and the beauty that God wants you to know.

Learn to flow with each experience for however long it may be present in your life. Be grateful for its existence and be thankful that you have been allowed to feel the things that you feel. Do not pray for that experience to last forever because you unlock doors and throw chains on things that you cannot see. Learn to hold everything and everyone that is near and dear to you with an open hand.