Too Good To Be True
The other day, my friend Joe was at my house helping me with
some minor household repairs. Since he owns eight rental houses,
he's good at that sort of thing. I'm not.
After we finished, Joe told me of a conversation he'd recently
had with his brother Pete. Pete asked Joe how everything was
going at his rental properties. "Fine," Joe replied. "Couldn't
be better. We have good people renting from us, and, lately, no
maintenance problems at all. Seems too good to be true."
Then Joe said to me, "As soon as I said that to Pete, I just
knew something would go wrong."
Sure enough, the next day the kitchen sink in one of Joe's
houses sprung a bad leak.
Why do we humans so often think when our lives are flowing
easily, it can't last? Why do we have such negative
expectations? As if the Universe was constantly conspiring
against us -- and was ready to leap down our throats if we dare
to think a good thought.
Here's Chief Joseph.
CHIEF JOSEPH
We realize how easy it is for you to get swept up in the mass
consciousness of negativity. After all, you're inundated every
day of your life with all the bad news, all the things wrong
with your world -- and yourself.
There is certainly no scarcity of people and organizations happy
to point out what's wrong with you. If you can't measure up to
whatever your society (that is, the mass consciousness)
currently defines as "right" or "perfect," then you are, by
definition, a flop -- a failure.
You live in a world caught up in a tangled web negative
expectations. You always prepare for the worst -- for illness,
for accidents, for war, for terrorist attacks, and so on.
And you see this on every level -- the individual level, as
John's story shows. But also on other levels -- your
governments, your schools, your churches.
It's as if no one ever heard the words your Christ uttered: Look
at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away
in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Well-being is your natural state, just as it's the natural state
of the birds and all wild creatures. It is the state your higher
self, the Universe, God have envisioned and intended for you.
Yes, you've incarnated into a world of vast diversity. A world
where you have many choices and opportunities available to you.
And that's part of the power and beauty of physical life on
Planet Earth -- you get to choose from this grand banquet table
of opportunities what you will put on your plate.
It doesn't matter what circumstances you were born into -- great
poverty or great wealth, or somewhere in-between. You, through
your free will, can choose your opportunities. You can choose to
improve your lot. Or you can choose to do nothing and stagnate.
It's all your choice.
But well-being is your natural state. And no matter what choices
you make in this lifetime, you will ultimately return to that
natural state of well-being. You can do it in this lifetime, or
the next -- it's all your choice.
Know this however: You do create your realities. You are
powerful creators, whether you know it or not.
And so if you have negative expectations, as Joe did, you will
create what you don't want.
Friends, well-being is not "too good to be true." It's your
natural state of being. Trust that. Expect it. Above all, allow
it to come to you.
Then it will be yours.
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