Having Faith In The Tools God Gives Us

I stumbled into a Christian Station on the radiothink, feel and behave negatively, you lower the
and something struck me: that in most organizedattraction of negative circumstances.
religions the emphasis is on having faith in God butMany religions encourage us to pray to God for
I hear very little about having faith in the tools orhelp, "Oh please, God, help me, I am lost." There
gifts God gives us! First, let me say somethingis nothing wrong with that. But what I suggest is
about my use of the word "God". This is just howfirst try and use the gift God gave you:choice.
I refer to my higher power, that and the word,Try and see that you can choose not to pay
"Grandfather" which comes from my work withattention to "thoughts of feeling so lost". Make
the Holy Men. So please substitute whateversense, brothers and sisters? Those thoughts are
definition you are comfortable with.coming out of low moods and are truly are not
God has given us some incredible gifts to walkreal. Neal Donald Walsh in his final book of the
this earth with. Let's start making use of them!series, Home with God, talks a great deal about
Number one on the list is the "gift of choice"; a"choice". I encourage you to read it.
theme that comes up in many retreats here inGod gave you the "gift of wisdom". It's your
Sedona. This last two years, I have come to seebirthright. Wisdom can be called many different
in a deeper way how truly awesome this gift ofthings: common sense, instinct, spiritual intelligence,
choice is. It totally controls our reality.gut feeling, etc. We have all experienced these
Many clients want to know how to control theirfeelings at one time in our life. But how many of
thinking; their life is dominated by too muchus make use of this gift? I talk to many clients
thinking. I don't want to try and teach any clientabout the idea of "experimenting equals validation".
how to control their thinking but encourage themI encourage them to turn decisions-making
to see they can "choose" which thoughts to givemoments into opportunities to experiment with
life too! Big difference!their wisdom. Instead of processing that decision
Take a moment and consider that. God orthrough their personal mind, give their wisdom a
whoever your Creator is gave you the enormouschance to offer an insight about it. And when that
gift of being able to choose which thoughts toinsight comes, and it will, you will have validation.
give energy too. If you have a negative thoughtFaith in a Higher Power is powerful as long as it
you can just ignore it! The divine trinity is: thought,doesn't turn us away from the gifts that Higher
feeling, behavior. So if you choose not to give lifePower gave us. I have sense I am going to write
to bad thoughts, you won't have bad feelings andmore about this idea. I will just let my wisdom
thus not behave in negative ways. And then theguide me!
fourth piece comes into play:vibration. If you don't