Faith in the Unlimited

Many times people have come to me feeling dejected because their dreams hadn’t turned out the way they had hoped. They'd started off with a grand and brilliant idea but along the journey pieces of it had fallen away, until finally they were left with a minimized, mostly unrecognizable version, if anything was left at all.

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Upon questioning the truth comes out. It isn't that the dream has left the person, but that the person has left the dream. It all starts to fall apart when we begin by making small concessions about this piece or that, and eventually so much is chipped away that the dream is hardly recognizable.

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Why do we do this? There are many ways in which we dismantle the dream. When we first tell people of our dream some of them will be happy to point out why certain parts of it won't work, so we cut out those pieces. Then we will meet up with some challenges, and decide to let go of some other parts (even if they were the parts we liked the best.) Eventually, we will have settled for so much less than we had originally dreamt, and our reality becomes something completely different then we had hoped.

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We are really skillful at limiting ourselves. One of the gifts of being human is that we are all really excellent manifesters. Everything we really want we get! I know... right now you are looking at your life saying "well, I didn't want this" or "I wanted this but didn't get it." But is that really true? What do you have that you didn't create? And if you didn't create it who did? Look for your part in it, let go of blaming anyone else for the circumstances of your life. What did you do, or what might you have done differently, if you really didn't want this experience?

 

I know someone who tries to solve her problems by doing things that are likely to cause other problems in the future. While that might satisfy the immediate problem, it simply compounds the future problems. She then is happy to disconnect the two so that she can say that this new problem is the result of something completely different. And while certainly things happen... accidents, things we hadn't planned for, interactions and the impact of the choices by others; those are simply examples of life happening. It isn't up to us to control everything; it is only ours to learn to roll with the unexpected. The choice is ours as to how we will respond to the twists and turns of the game.

 

So how do we begin to move beyond our self-imposed limits? We begin by taking full responsibility for ourselves. While it is important to work in partnership with others, we are solely responsible for our future and its outcome. Never forget that! And never fool yourself into believing that anyone else is responsible for you.

 

We must also stick with our dream. When faced with a choice, choose the one that is the most expansive - why limit the dream? We can't grow by staying small.

 

Have faith in the unlimited. I once read that there is not, and never was, a limited supply of money. If financial abundance is something you are striving for then realizing that there are no limitations to what is available, other than the ones we choose to believe in, can be very freeing.

 

And finally, trust in the dream. Believe that your idea is Spirit's dream seeking to manifest through you. Everything that is came first as an idea, and if you were unable to create it, the idea would have come through someone else. You must be the best vehicle for this piece of creation because it has chosen you for its expression.