Trust is natural for those who are innocent.
Freedom is natural for those who are trusted.
God loves his children with trust and freedom.
Do we Trust God and know we are free?
Human beings seem to have set up rules for living.
Without rules we have been taught there would be chaos.
When we are afraid of making a mistake, we want structure.
When we feel unconditionally loved, we know we are free.
I am not a body, I am free.
I am a spiritual being having a human experience.
I am an unlimited Spirit having a limited experience in a body.
I am created in the likeness and image of my Creator.
My Creator is unlimited, all loving, omnipresence and Omniscient.
Therefore I am created to be unlimited, all loving, everywhere Present and All knowing.
My limited thinking, my physical limitations and my lack of trust keep me from being free.
So to love myself is to free myself and trust myself in fully being me.
When we are trusted, we trust ourselves.
When we are doubted, questioned and criticized, we learn to doubt, question and criticize ourselves.
When we forgive our doubting, questioning and critical mind, we can think with the mind of God.
When we trust the God in us and live from the place of being free, we see and trust the Good within.
Over the years I have had a few experiences of doubting myself.
When someone I loved and trusted, did not behave in a loving, Godly way, I questioned my trust of them.
ACIM reminds us to trust our brothers.”
I trusted everyone and then had a few experiences of dishonesty, betrayal, violence, rejection, etc.
I thought I was at fault and had done something wrong.
I withdrew and withheld my love because I judged falsely.
I thought they were hurting me and took their behavior personally.
I was told I needed to defend myself and never let it happen again.
Now what to do?
Do we trust again, without a second thought?
Do we punish them and make they pay?.
Do we forgive them and hope we can trust them next time?
Is it foolish to love again fully and freely trusting in our integrity, our kindness and sincerity?
Is it necessary to withhold love and trust until others prove they can be trusted?
Can we trust they are teaching us they need love, compassion and understanding?
Should we trust ourselves to do what is right and true for us and love them anyway?
Our life work is learning to forgive all lack of love and respond with love.
Our vocation is to live with Love flowing through us at all times.
Joy is experienced when we live in Loving Kindness giving our very best at all times.
Trust is restored when we wholly Trust in the Power and Presence of Love always.
Trust brings Peace and Joy.
Forgiveness offers everything we want.
And so it is.
Betty Lue
Do It Anyway
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy it all overnight.
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.