“Faith is like a muscle. It must be exercised to grow strong. Repeated experiences of having to trust what we can't see and repeated experiences of learning to trust that things will work out are what makes our faith muscles grow strong."
~ Melody Beattie
Trusting that things will work out strengthens our hope muscle too.
If we stop and think about it, we can see that all our gifts are like muscles, and when we use them, they are fortified.
Also, like muscles, our gifts are connected.
And just as many of us take our physical muscles for granted, it seems that many of us take our spiritual muscles for granted too.
Let's work
our muscles today, especially the spiritual ones, starting with faith.
One way to do this is let go of a worry and affirm that all is well. Things will work out. Visualize that happening. Give thanks for an outcome that holds blessings for all concerned.
Be sure to work your reverence muscle too. It's perhaps the muscle we use the least as we age.
And yet reverence can make a powerful difference in the world when it is exercised regularly. Reverence can lead to
harmony, to peace, to honoring life, and to caring for Earth.
In closing, please consider this Rachel Carson quote:
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
With faith, love, and reverence,
Charlene
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FAITH: May you believe.
(from The Twelve Gifts
of Birth)
