Accepting What Is

I have been a very bad blogger lately. To any readers I have left, I apologize.

One of my spiritual practices is to accept "what is" as often as I can. I believe that what you resist persists.

My mother is in the hospital this week. I won't go into detail here, but I have been trying to practice what I preach. See, I don't want her to be sick. I want her to be healthy. She is a great woman and I don't want to lose her presence in my life. I probably won't any time soon. But eventually, I will. Does this kind of fearful thinking help her? NO. Only love can heal. Fear and unconsciousness are the opposites of love and presence. But I am afraid of losing her in my life. This is a fear all people must face at some point in their lives. Some sooner than others. How do we dispel fear? By facing it head on. I am afraid of losing the people I love. I am afraid of them getting hurt. There I said it - now perhaps it will lose its grip. I know the thing that would bring her the most peace is to know that I will be alright no matter what. That is the energy I want to share with her. An energy of love, support, and certainty.

The whole world seems fearful now. We are afraid of losing our money, our jobs, our health. On a collective level we have all become afraid.

See its strange, but sometimes with surrender comes liberation from fear. This is part of the reason I want the government to stay out of the economy. Let it correct. Let it heal. Let people save, don't encourage them to overspend like they have been doing for the last 30 years. The madness needed to stop. People are saving more. THIS will recapitalize the banks, this is how the market will correct ITSELF.

See, if we give all of our power to the government, in a desperate attempt to avoid the fear we feel, we will lose our freedom. When you want to be protected at all costs from feeling fear, you surrender your freedoms.

Is this what Americans really want? Are we really that afraid of facing scary times head on? We can do this, we can get through it. But not by surrendering our freedoms to a man who says he will protect us from fear. Nothing can. No one can protect you from fear but yourSelf. Asking someone else to do it is like asking for the Earth to stop spinning so it will always be day. Where would we be without the night?