When I began to write this, it was my intent to describe what people are presently experiencing in their lives, but I decided to bring you more insight as to why it is all happening. I know that many families are finding some of their most difficult patterns repeating themselves. It has been one crisis after another. You are not alone, it is happening to everyone.

There are several themes that we need to focus on. The first is that there is a great shift taking place and shifts signify change and change signifies movement and flow. If we remain with this awareness, numerous answers to your questions will be answered. Most people feel that they can cope better when they understand why and often the true purpose for it will surface from there.

The second part is a full understanding and acceptance that everything happens for the highest purpose of our soul. There are many good reasons why things are happening in our lives at this precise moment. It is all part of the Divine timing of the universe.

As you hold onto these two truths, everything will now point to the facts that we must proceed with faith, hope, courage, strength, compassion and with grace. Now, we may proceed to a place of greater understanding and eventual peace.

This is a time of great introspection. A time of truly understanding and experiencing to your core what really matters. So many have been placed in the throws of very difficult times. Whether it is personal and family health issues, serious relationship shifts, a sudden loss of a family member or friend or great economic struggles, everyone I know is in crisis mode learning how to cope. It really does not matter what the crisis is, it is all relative to the needs of your soul. They are all truths of your existence.

What really matters is how you cope, how you approach the crisis, what parts of yourself you bring forth to find peace within. It is not the experience, but rather how you experience the experience. That is what really matters. Several “Inspiring Thoughts” before brought us to a place that revealed the purpose to all life. That purpose is truth, and now, that truth is becoming even more important to understand.

Truth brings forth an approach of looking at “what is” minus the emotions that are attached to those facts. What is….IS! It is my hope that you will begin to accept what is occurring in your life without the emotions that bring resistance. The primary emotion in all challenges is fear; fear of the unknown, the future, the “what ifs”. Once you allow fear to come in, you will also begin to resist the facts and the truths that are simply there. It is what it is. This does not mean you should sit in the situation without movement. It means that you need to surrender to the reality of it and then proceed from there. When you do this without attaching emotional responses to it, you are able to move through it with more ease.

It still remains important that you recognize your feelings about the experience so you may clarify your truth within it. However, your emotions are another source that depletes your energy, making it all more difficult. Address your emotions at another time as factual and as a defining point of why it all occurred in the first place. Your feelings tell you what you are supposed to be learning from it all. They are for soul growth. You may realize that you feel anger, taken advantage of, misunderstood, non-validated, even victimized. It is important to accept these emotions as the truth of how you are feeling and not deny them. The real truth is that they are just feelings that you are choosing and not true reality. We can choose to feel any way we desire in every situation. What does this tell you about yourself and the patterns you attract to you? If you are angry with someone else, ask yourself how you are angry with yourself. That is where your truth lies. When you are able to separate the factual experience from the emotional response and approach them at different times, it becomes the most effective way, the easiest way to move through it all.

The answer to what really matters is how you experience the experience, not the experience itself. The crisis is simply a means to the end, another opportunity for a deeper awareness of what is really important and how you may alter your life to attract more peace and true joy.

As I choose it for myself, I pray that you will surrender to it all and allow yourself to float along the water gracefully instead of pushing the river where you desire it to be. Your soul desires have created the experience for a purpose of higher understanding. We have everything we need and desire. We have already co-created it. It is our resistance and fears that block us for receiving it. It is my hope that you will let go and embrace each situation for what it is and begin your emotional awareness with gratitude at all times.

Many blessings, love and light,

Joyce