Waves Winter 2004 Newsletter

...I knew that God had placed them there as warring angels...who believed in God and loved him enough
to give their lives to his service. -- The Awakening Heart by Betty J. Eadie, p. 88


March, 2005	W.A.V.E.S. Newsletter	Spring Edition

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Life Lessons

by Rita Scott

This morning I woke up early and decided I was finally going to write my article for the newsletter that I had been procrastinating about writing. I wanted to write it, but as usual, there were a lot of ideas floating around in my head and I was having a hard time zeroing in on which idea would come to fruition. I had been praying that God would bring me the words to write, but it seemed as though either He was taking His time or I was on a different frequency and not hearing what He had to say.

As I booted up my computer, I saw some things that resembled adware, and then I couldn't get Windows Explorer to work. ARGH!! Now mind you, I had just run my programs that I have loaded to "search and destroy" adware and spyware the night before. Much to my annoyance, it seemed like something was attacking my computer yet again. It always reminds me of the line from Poltergeist..."They're baaaack". I decided to go ahead and run my virus scan. Immediately, I started having thoughts of, "Why can't these people just leave me and my computer alone?" Annoyed, I got up from my computer and decided to go make breakfast while the virus scan started to run.

As I was standing cooking my breakfast, it occurred to me that maybe I had actually found my topic to write about. The light bulb finally flickered through the fog. LOL

We're always saying that "life is a journey". Indeed it is. It is easy to make plans for our daily lives and then try to stick to those plans, but sometimes it is difficult to figure out the detours that happen on our journeys.

When I was growing up, I assumed that when I got older, I would be married and have two to four children by the time I was in my late 20s, live in a nice home, have the man of my dreams...you know, the whole fairy tale thing. Of course, I also wanted a career, independence, and the ability to travel the world over. No conflict there, huh? If you had told me back in my teens that I wouldn't be married or have children by the time I was 45, I would've told you that you were crazy. As the years went by, I found that all those plans about having a husband and children that I thought for sure would happen didn't come to pass. My life as I had planned it was detoured in a big way. Although I have had a career and independence and have traveled to a lot of places, I still felt like my life needed to be redefined. Since reading Embraced by the Light and The Awakening Heart, my life has come into focus more and more as time goes by. I am learning that there are great opportunities in those detours of everyday life.

A couple of nights ago, I stayed up until midnight, talking to my friend on the phone and trying to help her get through feelings of sadness and low self esteem because her mother has treated her very badly throughout her life. I was supposed to be out of the house by 5:45 AM the next morning. I woke up, showered, and started to get ready. I felt like I was moving in slow motion and was running about 15 minutes behind.

As I berated myself for running so slow, I stopped and got gas and then got on the road. As I drove, I saw the most beautiful sunrise of oranges, coral pinks and yellows. It occurred to me that if I had been running on time, I would've missed that beautiful sunrise. If I hadn’t talked to my friend on the phone, I wouldn't have been able to help her through her sadness. Instead she felt love and acceptance.

How many times do we get detoured and miss the beauty of the lesson that God intends for us to realize, only because we're too busy focusing on what we think should've happened? When we open our hearts and listen to our Creator, the flow just happens. We needn't struggle with negativity or self-criticism because life didn't go the way we had planned. God loves us unconditionally, no matter what.

Betty writes in Embraced by the Light:

"Under the guidance of the Savior I learned that it was important for me to accept all experience as potentially good. I needed to accept my purpose and station in life. I could take the negative things that had happened to me and try to overcome their effects...I saw that I could heal myself, spiritually first, then emotionally, mentally and physically. I saw that I could spare myself the corrosive effects of despair. I had a right to live fully."

Back to my earlier question of, "Why can't these people just leave me and my computer alone?" The reason "those people" just can't leave us alone is because we need those people and those people need us. Even though we often feel barraged in our journeys, we are meant to be out there to touch others on their journeys through life. I often think that we are like lights that attract bugs and moths. People see our lights and are attracted to us, even though oftentimes they are unaware of the light or the attraction. Many times the people that we attract can be very challenging to deal with. Yet Jesus says, "Love one another as I have loved you."

In The Awakening Heart, Betty writes:

"I began to practice giving love, at first sending it out by thought to people whom I wanted to love, then actually expressing it to them. Soon the art of loving became one of my greatest strengths...I didn't acquire the ability to love from just my own efforts; rather, I opened myself up to its possibility and it began to come to me from others."

So the next time you feel detoured, try to find the sunrise in it and reach out in love to those you meet along the way.

Jeremiah 29:11-12:
For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

Love and Light,
Rita

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