It is a common spiritual law that everything happens for a reason. It’s a tough pill to swallow sometimes. The reasons are not always clear, but the events of our lives appear because we deserve them and because they are designed to help us to transform and grow; and transformation brings us closer to a connection with the Light…which is always good!

This week, instead of meeting every seemingly negative situation with dismay, try to be mindful that there is a lesson in the circumstance and this lesson will take you to a better place ultimately, to a higher spiritual level. In moments of distress, as difficult as it is to see the reason for our hardship, find within yourself the strength to say, “For now I will accept this challenge, not knowing the reason but trusting the universe has sent this to me for my own good and that someday I will fully understand.”

It is this complete surrender to the Universe that connects us to Light.

Unfortunately, our Desire to Receive for the Self Alone constantly seeks to distract us from having this consciousness. Instead we get in our own way, with worry and fret we make mountains out of hills. We want to fix the problem right now. We want to see the fruits of our work instantaneously. Sometimes we need to stay in the discomfort in order to reap the greatest benefit. So rather than asking for the pain to stop, ask to see what the pain is here to help you learn. Once you learn the lesson, there is no reason for the pain, right?

The Creator always has our best interest at heart. This week, we have the power to surrender to the moment, to choose to be patient, to look for the lesson and to allow the hidden gift to unfold before us.

All the best,

Yehuda
(taken from Yehuda Berg, Weekly Kabbalah)

What does it mean to reach our potential? Many believe that realizing our potential means that we hold certain positions, that we have the respect of many people, that we are charming or loved or powerful. But what we see this week is that the greatest attribute that Moses had was his humility. You may not know this, but it is actually written that Moses had a stutter. And you know what? It was this “setback” that allowed him to reach his potential. Why? Because he knew that in and of himself, he was nothing; his strength was his connection to the Light.

Like Moses, we all have setbacks of one sort or another; disappointments, things that we are not good at, times when we don’t feel as if we are in the right place at the right time. But what we need to realize is that these “setbacks” are what bring us to a special place—the place where we can ask, from the bottom of our hearts, for help from the universe to fulfill our potential, to become the people that we want to be. Reaching our potential is not a process that happens naturally. We have to choose it. Our potential is something that happens when we make a conscious choice to go to our next level.

So how do we do it? To strive for our potential is to be in a state where we are always open for change. Being open for change doesn’t mean that we wake up and go through our day to just do our job, fulfill our duties or reach a quota. As long as we think like this, we will stay in the same position. The only way that we will reach our next level is to think outside the box, to go beyond ourselves, and explore new avenues in which we can grow and do more positive actions in the world. Why? Because when we really open up to explore the world around us, we also research and connect with our own soul.

The reading this week, Exodus, is the first chapter in the second book of the Bible, and spiritually, it represents a new beginning. This is a week in which we can change our certainty. It is a week in which we can practice being open to the universe. This week, when we are really trying to do the right job and someone hands us a turn and we get baffled by it, we can say, “Wait a second. Maybe it’s not coming from them; maybe it is coming from the Light. Maybe there is something else I have to do to go to my next level.” (Karen Berg)

‘The Quitters’: this is the person who wants something for nothing. They come in with a lottery ticket mentality. They think that enrolling and being excited for a little while and maybe even talking to a couple of people is enough to win big. They often talk the loudest about their commitment and impending Success and will convince you that they are in it to win it! Shortly after you start to believe and invest in them, they quit. They disappear. You must understand that they are quiting on themselves, not you. Don’t take it personally, just know it’s part of the equation. ‘The Caretakers’: this is the person who truly loves people and wants to see EVERYONE Succeed. Unfortunately this person tends to spend a ridiculous amount of time nurturing and encouraging people who will NOT participate in their own rescue. Because they spend a lot of time with these kinds of people, they themselves do not make any progress either. Some come around, some don’t. Don’t take it personally, just know it’s part of the equation. ‘The Odds Makers’: this is the person who understands that most things in life are a numbers game and if they play enough numbers they know they can GUARANTEE their Success. This person figures that if there are 30 million people in the US alone who are classified as job/opportunity seekers and if they can expose just .5%, that’s HALF of ONE PERCENT, then they will have a minimum of 15,000 Team members/customers in their organization. Don’t take it personal, just KNOW it’s part of the equation. ‘The Lasters’: this is the person who will NEVER QUIT. They may make a lot of mistakes in the beginning, they may totally suck at every facet of the business in the beginning, but they keep plugging away! They keep learning, they keep digging and they simply out last all of their mistakes, all of their self imposed limitations, doubts and fears and all of the others of have come and gone. This person ALWAYS achieves Success. Don’t take it personal, just know it’s part of the equation. ‘The Masters’: this is the person that understands all of these Types. This is the person that recognizes each of these Types within. This is the person that sets their mark and goes about MAKING IT HAPPEN because they KNOW they are the ONE. This is the person who brings up other leaders and teaches others to do the same. Duplication, not innovation is their creed. Definitely take this personal because this Type should be YOU. It’s all an equation. Once you figure out the solution, 2+2=4 you just apply it over and over and over and over and over, because you KNOW the law will not change. You KNOW that when you apply it, it will ALWAYS reap results. You KNOW that repetition is the mother of skill.
(Ed Blunt)

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it”;
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.

The school of life is no different than grade school, middle school, high school, or graduate school; you are constantly being introduced to a new curriculum of understanding.

In the study of the Law of Truth we learn to apply the Laws of life so that they will dissolve our adverse thoughts and conditions. First graders often think their curriculum is difficult. Eighth-graders think their classes are hard, and likewise, seniors in high-school think their classes are hard. But the high school student doesn’t think the eighth-grade curriculum is challenging and the eighth-grader doesn’t think the first grade curriculum is challenging.

The perfection of the Universe is that it has a magnificent way of keeping us on our green growing edges of our own life.

If you’re finding your “curriculum” particularly challenging, know that you are in the perfect place—the green growing edges of your own becoming. And who you are becoming is someone this Universe is so very proud of.

Hard curriculum is a compliment to your soul. You are more than you’ve known. (MM)

For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever has not, from him even what he has shall be taken away.

What does this mean?

Whoever realizes he has abundance of any amount and is grateful for it will attract more to himself and he will have even more abundance. Whoever does not even realize he is wealthy and become grateful for whatever measure of abundance he does have, even what he has will slip away from him for like attracts like.

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In “A Course in Miracles,” it says that if you and I are not experiencing miracles on a daily basis, it is we who are out of alignment with the Universe.

It isn’t that we have to call God in to make miracles happen. It is that we have to bring our attention to the presence of the Divine Universe and miracles become natural.

What are miracles but the parting of the waters of our problems? What are miracles except the healing of our blindness so that we can see more fully? What are miracles but the healing of parts of us that are paralyzed so that we can really take the steps that are ours to take?

Miracles are natural to you and me because of our nature. If we are not experiencing miracles, it is we who need to move. Today, we put our attention on God and watch everything begin to move into the alignment with what is natural and that is always miraculous. (MM)

There once was a man who had a huge desire to please God, so he prayed day and night until one day a Voice spoke to him, “I want you to go and push a rock.”

The man woke up the next morning elated, and ran outside to find a huge boulder. He began pushing it, but nothing happened, so he kept at it all day. The next day he did the same, yet it still didn’t budge an inch. He went on like that for three months, until one day he got so frustrated that he stopped pushing.

That night he had a dream, and the Voice asked him, “Why did you stop pushing?” “Nothing happened,” he answered. “Nothing happened? Look at you! Look how determined and focused you’ve become. Look how powerful your muscles are now. You’re no longer the person you were when you started.

Besides, I didn’t tell you to move the rock; I told you to push it. I’ll move the rock when it’s time.”

Keep pushing your rock. It’ll move at the right moment, in the perfect time, when you least expect it. And amazing things are happening, even if you’re not noticing them yet.

Yehuda Berg

The Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him most, he said “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

Sometimes we get knocked down. As a matter of fact, in life we all will get knocked down. Not only knocked down but we will be seemingly out. While out, life will continue to swing, kick, and beat you if you let it. Yet, if we can just find a way to get back up good things can happen. Les Brown said if life knocks you down, try to land on your back cause if you can look up, you can get up. When life knocks you down, try to find a way to get up. And do not just get up, get up swinging and see what happens. GOD indeed help those that help themselves.