Your life holds the key to all you want for yourself and for your world. It is an incubator of creation in which you can do almost anything, including cultivating your own awakening, activating abundance, or even building your own heaven on earth.

Moreover, you decide whether to sit back and hope it comes to you, or take the bull by the horns and go out and get it.

Whatever and however you choose to live it, your life is a statement to the world, subtly telling the story of who you are and why you are here. So, how are you writing the story of your life?

Here are a few "simple" questions that might help:

Q: You speak often about our lives bringing experiences needed by our souls. How can I know what my soul is trying to get out of this life, and how it fits into the bigger picture of its evolution?

A: Great question. To put this life into context, it helps to step back from the energies of the moment and consider what you know about yourself through your observations on this life.

What patterns have played out so far? What kind of challenges have you created? Did you accept them willingly? Did you go kicking and screaming? Were they thrust upon you?

Maybe one of these days I'll write a book about my life in the light -- or more accurately, my journey into the darkness.

I've hesitated talking about it for a number of reasons. Concern over what people might think wasn't one of them. After all, I've never lived that way before, and now is no time to start.

So for all you who are prone to judgment, think what you like.

John wrote the article “Taking a Time Out from Our Dramas” the other day. He is obviously right; we want peace in our lives. The trick is in how you attain such peace. At the end of John’s post he said:

Maybe the contests of power that fill the news will begin to subside, too, when we resolve not to join in their battles, but to sit quietly and invite in new perspectives and approaches that don't require the perpetuation of such conflicts of competing extremes.

Experience. Expand. Experience. Expand. That's the cycle that keeps playing itself out in our lives.

They're created to bring situations for us to experience, hopefully to learn things about ourselves and our lives. Then we get the chance to expand by putting it to work. Once we do (or don't), the cycle repeats itself.

It's that way with the dramas of our lives and world around us. These situations are there for a reason, and they're going to play out to completion, one way or another.

What to do when you don't know what to do?

You ask, and you allow the feelings to tell you. You stop the judgments. You stop the doubts.

You acknowledge that, yes, as you live in a certain reality there can be challenge, but many times, as you have seen in hindsight, the challenges were the best thing that ever happened, because they have brought you to a place of understanding yourself and your power, more than if you had not had the challenges.

- Jeshua

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9/27/09 Message of the Day
Channeled by Judith Coates
http://www.oakbridge.org/

Many are beginning to think they have some divine purpose to fulfill. Permit me to suggest that purpose has more to do with their own expansion than anything they add to the world.

Don't get me wrong. Service can be a good thing.

I for one have long advocated seeing our lives as about more than the chase of desires or struggle for survival. Stepping outside our own concerns to lend a helping hand, create a vision, or make a difference offers a sense of fulfillment that can otherwise be lacking, not to mention make a much-needed contribution to build a better world.

As we move into the energy of 9.9.09 perhaps you will join me in using it to look at our world in another light.

Think of some of the things we know or which are said about energy.

This is a world of energy. Energy subsists all matter. Energy is intelligence. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. Energy flows in waves, at different frequencies or vibrations.

Thoughts are energy. Emotions are energy. Energy is light. Light is energy. Our bodies and world are made of energy.

Did you ever feel fragmented or compartmentalized, like you had to pick and choose which parts of you to be shown to the world? If so, don't despair.

That's the normal state of human affairs.

We so much want to be accepted or gain some benefit (e.g., profit) from our relations with others that many of our encounters break down into one of two categories:

• we try to show them what they want to see, or
• we try to entice them to give us what we want.

Either way, rarely do we let our hair down and show ourselves in our entirety, warts and all.

You have come here many times. And during those visits, you have become so wrapped up in the dramas created for you to experience that you have perhaps forgotten who you really are and what you are about.

Even so, within those lives you have undertaken many threads of experience to examine certain issues from different sides, and in the process add your unique imprint on the collective consciousness of mankind.