I Am Not Your Enemy

I got together with my mom and sisters last night to celebrate mom's birthday. We decided on dinner and a movie and ended up seeing the Christian movie entitled "War Room". Even though I no longer consider myself Christian, I did take away some valuable understandings based on concepts in the movie.

The most inspirational thought is now the title of this post: I am not your enemy. It came to me from the main plot storyline involving a Christian woman having real life problems. When she complained about her relationship with her husband to an older and wiser Christian woman, the older woman pointed out that the younger woman was fighting against her husband instead of against fighting against all those issues that were driving the couple apart. The husband was not the enemy yet the younger woman was fighting him as though he was.

How many times in this human life do we look at people who are different from us and automatically believe we have to fight against them? We assume who they are and what they believe are wrong because of those differences. Instead of working with them we often point out how they are wrong (aka fighting).

I am not your enemy. Your fellow human is not your enemy. Our common enemies are greed, poverty, disease, war, lust for power. These things and more are what we must overcome, not each other.

None of us are perfect. We are all trying to do the best we can based on what we know. It's time to come together and look at each one as slightly different versions of ourselves.

The world will change for the better when we see each other as friends and begin working together for the common good.

~CSE

  

Don't Settle!!!

I was very happy as a young child. I smiled a lot. I made friends easily. I was usually the one who came up with the game plan for what the group did. Life was good as I followed my heart and the blessings flowed.

As I got older, doubt crept in. People I loved and looked up to "put me in my place". It was not up to me to be in charge. My ideas were not the only ones that were good. While such ideas were true, they also made me feel bad about the choices I made. I stopped following my heart, no longer believing in myself. There were times I was still happy, but only occasionally.

The lowest point in my life was when I divorced. At that time, my life was not my own and had not been my own for a long time. I was a dedicated wife and mother who did everything for everyone else except me. By the time my husband left I felt totally empty and used up, a shell of my former self. It took me over ten years to build myself back up to the point I felt I was once again worthy to receive.  

Most of our problems in life stem from not loving ourselves enough to accept the love and other blessings we truly deserve! We are often broken and abused, and somehow we are convinced it is because something inside us is unworthy. This is a lie!!!

We are all beautiful, powerful and infinite beings!!! At no time are we unworthy to receive the abundance and blessings the Universe wants to bestow on us. What stops us is we ourselves!!! We are our own worst enemies.

Don't settle for second best!!! Allow yourself to follow your dreams and your heart!!! Be open to the blessings the Universe has in store for you!!! Be bold enough to ask for them!!! You are worth it!!!

~CSE