Choose Again

In my new book, STAY: Suicide Can Wait, I encourage those who are struggling with their current experience to look within. Why? What do I think there is to be found there?

An entirely new way of experiencing life.

We have spent, perhaps our entire existence, experiencing our lives from "without". Not only without our real eyes, without our real ears, but without any of the senses we were given to know. And also "without", in that each of us is projecting our perceptions outside of ourselves. As we exert our individual personalities upon one another, we are operating at a very superficial level. I would argue, not only superficial, but even less real than that. In the book I explain why I refer to our bodies as "avatars".

My purpose for pointing people to look inward is to find the being we truly are, beyond our body; our deeper, authentic self. And then, to allow this authentic self to take its rightful place in revealing the experience of our life. 

It likely hasn't occurred to us that we actually have a choice in how we perceive our life experience. Our knee-jerk perceptions present themselves with such immediacy that we presume them to be the right and proper perceptions we are to have. But if we were to take the time to examine our most common reactions to life, we would find them based in fear, and in defense of fear. Fear is the teacher we trust most in this world. We trust it most because we invented it, but it is not our intended way of being here.

There is one other teacher, and it dwells within. Love. This is who we truly are because it is who we were created to be. As over-used and twisted as the word "love" has become to us, I must use it, and trust that Love will reveal Itself to you beyond our puny experiences of it. That is why we need to look within - to discover what Love is in its purest form, and thus realize who we are in our authentic, pure form; spirit.

There is one simple premise here...we cannot possibly be something other than what we were created to be. How could that work?! Consider for a moment, if this were not true, we would be greater than That Which created us. We would have superceded the perfect desire and will of the One Who created all. That is simply an impossibility.

What we can do, is choose to perceive ourselves other than who we truly are. It is our free will to do so. We are free to see ourselves and our life situations incorrectly. We are also free to choose again, and to see ourselves as we were created.

We can look within, and find our true identity. It is real, and proves Itself as we allow for our experience of It. We see with new eyes, hear with new ears, and realize expansive senses. We witness Love in an uncommon way. All of this inspires us to relinquish our current way of perceiving life, and choose again.

​Our Creator has never experienced our separation. Only we have, incorrectly. The pure Love from which we came only and always simply says, "Choose again. Choose Love."

Take a look at the situations that arise in your day, and begin to ask yourself, "What would Love's response be to this?" Then, go within, and find out.

                                                                                                     - Cathy Enoch      12-3-2016