Steps into Grace
By Marilyn Redmond
Is your life getting too hard for you? Does it feel like you
are a victim and powerless. Do your problems keep repeating themselves? If you
feel as if you have lost hope? Then, it
is time to find a new way to handle your living. These and more problems led me
to a new perception about life and its challenges. At one point, I made a phone
call out of desperation. I was told there is always hope. This brought a new
vision into my life.
Through wanting to improve my situation, I found a spiritual
path out of the past and moving into living in the now. I had been reacting
from the past trauma, difficulties, and lack of love growing up in a
dysfunctional family. How do you ever move beyond the past and live in reality.
I had never lived in my truth, but that of my parents, their parents, and so
on. Was I up to growing beyond the fear, anger, resentments, shame, guilt, and
other negative emotions into one of unconditional love?
First, I had to be honest that I was powerless in my life.
The lack of honesty is insanity that comes from the fearful messages of my
brain/ego. Was I ready to be as honest as possible with myself to move into
sanity? That would take a commitment to turn my life over to a loving higher
power to replace the fears. I had to trust that love could bring a better life.
Being physically beaten early in life and told. "I am only doing this
because I love you" was a big hurdle for me. I thought love hurt. Somehow,
the courage to turn my life over to a loving universe, that Created me made
sense. The leap of faith was a big one.
My path lead to identifying all the barriers I had built to
protect myself from more harm. These barriers were actually stopping my receiving
the love I desired from manifesting in my life. I had to open my heart to
receive the gifts I had blocked, thinking I was shielding myself from more
problems. In reality, they were like walls preventing the love from
manifesting. Staying angry, fearful, and guilty stopped the life I wanted.
Finding a trustworthy person, counselor, or friend to share
my fears and traumatic past was necessary. I was leaving the past behind me. I
had to express them to let them go and leave space for the good energies to fill
the new void. After each time of
sharing, I felt lighter. It felt good. I wanted to continue cleaning out my
past completely for the love and grace replacing the past emotions that kept me
a victim and powerless. I was not such a bad person. Each time, I released an
old feeling I replace it with love and grace. I felt liberated.
Then I proceeded to make reparation for my side of old
difficulties with others, I felt a new freedom. My stress reduced and I felt a
power I never felt before. The past no longer was my focus. Now, I could live
one day at a time, while I had to continue releasing daily anger and shame.
A continual daily inventory keeps me current. I have left
the past and have matured. Being in the presence of love has become the most
important part of each day. I base my new life in "Thy Will Be Done",
instead of My Will Be Done. Responding in loving resolutions with all my
encounters does not recreate the problems. When I am in the "Now", I
am in reality.
To maintain my conscious connection with my higher power of
a loving spirit within my heart, I found meditation bypasses the ego messages
of negativity. I learned that I have to give love away to keep it. This brings more love into
my experience. My reward is the good feelings.
What I send out comes back. Some people say, what goes around comes
around.
The new basis for my life is often called being a new
creature. With my open heart I contribute to others, volunteer in the
community, and am in service positions in my organizations. Love moves in a
circle to return. You are actually are enhancing your own life in helping
others. Love grows when shared and good feelings are the prize. Being honest,
open-minded, and willing to change brought the life I always wanted. I was
looking for love in all the wrong places.
This higher level of consciousness brings me into grace. I
am no longer running the show. My ego is no longer determining my action but
allowing divine assistance to bring the results. Life flows easily into the
next right indicated thing. My needs are met. Staying in gratitude continues my
new life style. I no longer am a fear-based person but a love-based person free
of the ego and past. Love never fails. God's grace is sufficient.
The details of this process for finding your inner love
within your heart are in my book, "Paradigm Busters" at Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Marilyn-Redmond/e/B0069WIKDC
and Barnes and Nobel. Barnes and Nobel
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