It’s easy to “descend” from higher consciousness right now. COVID19 is taking a toll mentally, emotionally, physically… any maybe spiritually? I just received word from a dear, long time friend, a nurse I used to work with in Denton, that her daughter was in the hospital, on a ventilator, suffering from kidney failure and not expected to make it. My friend and her husband are not allowed to visit, and updates are hard to come by. She texted me that it is agonizing, and that she can’t imagine what the health care providers caring for her daughter must be going through.
I am devastated by the news. I feel helpless. I am angry, I am scared. Her daughter is around the ages of my kids – mid thirties to mid fourties. YOUNG! So, what to do with all these feelings?
I want to make it better, to make this all go away… common to all of us, no doubt, but not helpful. Definitely time to TOGGLE.
The inspiration for this comes by reading (more than one time) excerpts from Emmet Fox’s The Golden Key. (link at the bottom of this blog)
In the Golden Key, Fox wrote: “If you are thinking about your difficulty, you are not thinking about God. Your object is to drive the thought of difficulty out of your consciousness for a few moments at least, substituting for it the thought of God. At first it may be difficult to get your thoughts away from material things. But by constantly repeating a statement of absolute truth, such as, “God is guiding me now,” however mechanical it may seem, you will soon find …your mind is clearing.” He emphasized, ” Do not try to think in advance what the solution to your difficulty will be. Leave the questions and ways and means to God.”
TOGGLE is to Think On God, Gratitude, and Loving Expressions. A toggle switch is used to turn things on and off. It is time to turn off the fear, the anger, the sadness. This in no way negates the validity of those feelings; it is important to acknowledge our humanness – it is, in fact, I think, necessary in order to maintain our compassion. Staying there, however, in the land of scared/angry/sad is not where I choose for my mind, my heart, my soul to live. I’m switching on the “God thoughts”, the gratitude, the love. It’s not always easy, for sure. I’ve fallen off my “higher consciousness” more times than I’d like to admit, and still I know it is essential to turn to God in times of distress, to be enlightened by scripture, by prayer, and by gratitude for the many blessings in my life. I have my “God words” at hand to use when I need them (often) Creator, Love, Source, Love, Wisdom, Love, Truth, Love, Abundance, Love, Peace, Love, Joy, Love (can you guess my favorite?) and many more. The Goodness of God persists and triumphs, and I am so grateful.
Just writing this out helps me turn my energies toward prayer for my friend and her family, to breathe peace into the situation, to be grateful for the many friends who are adding their prayers to mine. Thank you to all of this, thank you God.
And I start climbing up to my “higher self” once again.
https://www.unity.org/sites/unity.org/files/files/Free-Materials/2018/Exerpt-GoldenKey-booklet.pdf