YOUR GREAT OPPORTUNITY

There are many laws. Man’s laws fill untold volumes and are constantly being amended, added to, ignored and broken. What of God’s “laws”? The Law of Retribution, the Law of Unintended Consequence, Reaping and Sowing and others? What sets these laws apart from man’s laws is that they are totally impersonal in application, think the law of gravity. Rich or poor, famous or infamous, it makes no difference, if you fall off a roof, a ladder, a bridge or cliff you will fall until something breaks your fall (and probably part or all of you). Every single time. Hitler or Mother Teresa. No appeal suspends these laws. The Law of Opportunity is one of these laws. We are all faced with problems and difficulties. No one immune. Financial challenges are the same for all, the positioning of a decimal point the only difference. Children act out whether born with a plastic or silver spoon in their mouth. Living on the Spiritual Basis we understand this life is but a moment in eternity, being eternal we existed before this flesh was conceived, existing beyond its return to the dust and ashes from whence it came. Our job, our only real job in this life is to learn, so when a difficulty surfaces we choose the course to take. Living on the Spiritual Basis, in touch with source, God, we greet these occasions with prayer and meditation; knowing there is something to be learned, will improve and ultimately strengthen our connection with God and our fellows. That by demonstrating over the problem by reliance on the source, we teach others, by our actions the truth of spiritual living. Theory is fine in the classroom, but demonstration is the measure, the attraction. So greet these opportunities spiritually, apply what you know of the path to the best of your ability for more will be revealed, keep your gaze focused on the source and you will triumph. “We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn’t do it. Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence” (A.A. pg 133).