Row your boat merrily

In an attempt to stay safe and secure in an unsafe and insecure world, human beings struggle for control. Angels never struggle. Angels accept the world as it is. Angels accept themselves as they are. Because angels accept what IS

Have you realized that it is as important to have faith and trust in times of great beauty as in great difficulty? Otherwise, fear can take over—fear that you cannot handle so much beauty, that you do not deserve such beauty, that it is all a mistake and you may lose it. You begin to identify with the outer beauty and your thoughts about it. You forget you are everything and so you try to control everything. Then you cannot enjoy even the good things that come to you.

People often pray for strength to bear their “bad karma.” Angels say, if you are going to pray, then pray for the strength to bear both the “bad” and the “good.” Strength and courage are as necessary to beauty as they are to difficulty.

Row your boat merrily. Life is but a dream. Life is but a stream, a flow of consciousness. Do not seek to change the world to suit your list of preferences. Look instead to see which way life is flowing and allow yourself to come into harmony with that flow.