February is an interesting month. The weather is often disturbing, as if winter is unwilling to let go, and let spring return. It is also a time to celebrate the birthdays of presidents’ as well as Valentine’s Day, a day when we think of others in a loving way. And I got to thinking about where love comes from, that place within me, which I like to think of as the heart of me, where my Christ Spirit forever dwells waiting to send forth love and peace, and all the good things into my life when I ask.
Then, for some reason, a past event that really changed my life also popped into my mind. I had been glancing through the L A Times, and on the front page of an inside section was a beautiful photograph. It looked like the web an orb spider once wove between my rose bushes in the garden, but as I read the caption, I soon learned I was wrong—very wrong. It was a photo-graph taken through an electronic microscope of a slice of tungsten steel, metal strong enough to be used in railroad tracks, which take a beating from the thousands of pounds of pressure as heavy trains travel over them. And it reminded me of a fact I knew that everything I see, even Our Mother Earth, herself, is constructed of the same thing—pure energy—atoms and atoms of pure energy, whether they appear solid or not. Mind boggling, isn’t it?
If we can accept that idea, we must also accept that we, too, are made of that same energy, from our solid bones to the drops of blood traveling our body channels, and even the air we breathe. And as that truth begins to seep in, we must accept the truth about ourselves. We may seem solid, but we really aren’t, and things that are not solid flow and change in those spaces our physical eyes cannot see without the help of a very, very strong microscope. And since we already know our thoughts and beliefs are powerful enough to change things in our lives, we can use them to not only make our lives better, we can completely change our bodies by thinking and believing we are healthy, just as thinking and believing that we are not.
That is not an easy thing to do, when every day the world is telling us that we are not. I listen to the world, just as you do, and I take detours, which catch me unaware, allowing aches and pains and walls to health rise up seem-ingly out of nowhere. And every day, I must remind myself that although I am getting “older” chronologically, in God’s time I am not, so I am the same healthy, confident, and prosperous adult I have always been. And since I have the ability to listen to my heart, I have the ability to follow those quiet words of guidance, because I can choose to listen and commit in every 86,400 NOW moments of each day to make my life and body and circumstances better, healthier, stronger, more prosperous in every way. And whether my steps are long and brave or short and timid, if they remain positive and true knowing that the ONE POWER is always with me, within the heart of me, encouraging me to be what I am meant to be and to do what I am meant to do, I can change for the better in body and mind.
TIP: When you are facing a change or difficult choice, ask your heart whether the result of your choice will make you better in every way, or not, and really listen to the answer. Then the follow the path your heart suggests, although you may not find it easy at first, but it will become easier to make the changes for the better as you see them becoming true and real, and you recognize not only your life, but your health as well, is changing for the better. Why? It works, for each of us is responsible for our lives, but God is always in charge, and ready to make it so, if we truly, in our hearts, believe it.
