Your Gift to This Moment

By William Frank Diedrich

The joy you feel right now, your appreciation of the people and your surroundings, is your gift. Your joy is a gift to yourself. It is a gift to everyone who has contact with you. Your joy uplifts the world and raises both you and the world to a higher vibration. You, in your joy, are a blessing to all of us.
The negativity you feel, and the blaming and complaining going on in your mind is also your gift. As you find yourself in a place of pain, you offer pain to the world. It is the gift you give to you and to everyone else. It doesn’t matter if you verbalize it or not. It comes through in your tone of voice, your body language, and in the energy you emit.

How can negativity be a gift? Your pain tells you that you are, at this moment, out of alignment with your Inner Being. In human life, unless you have attained enlightenment, there will always be moments of pain and suffering. You suffer because you are out of the flow.

What is the flow? Love, or pure positive energy, is always flowing to you from the Source (God, Creative Intelligence). You are, in this moment, loved without conditions. Your Inner Being knows this always. We take ourselves out of the flow when we think that we are not loved, not appreciated, or not deserving. We take ourselves out of the flow when we think someone else is not loved or is undeserving.

When energy is not flowing through a physical body freely we feel pain or discomfort. The pain and discomfort are necessary, or we would not know that something is not well. My finger hurts when I cut it. The pain tells me to attend to this cut finger. The flow in the body has been interrupted by this leak of bodily fluids and the possibility of invasion by foreign matter. My body immediately begins to heal itself, but it may need some help by me. I clean the cut and protect it with a band aid. I know it will heal and so I expect it to heal.

We are part of a larger spiritual body. The essential nature of spirit is love. Spirit knows only love, only acceptance, only well-being. Well-being flows to all expressions of spirit. We are all parts of this greater spiritual body. Our true nature is love. Our Inner Being is always aware of this.

We, as spiritual expressions, have free will. We can choose not to have well-being. We can choose contrasting feelings of anger, sadness, hatred, or resentment. These thoughts restrict or interrupt the flow. Negative emotion signals that we have chosen something other than love, that something is not well. The pain and discomfort tell us we are moving away from who we are (our Inner Being). Without the pain, we would not know something is not well.
Your pain is a gift to me because it tells me that you need my love. My pain is a gift to me because it tells me that I need my love. Pain, fear, anger, resentment, whatever name you give to the negative energy, is always a call for love. We can resist the gift. We can wallow in the pain. We can make ourselves victims of what we have created. None of these choices alleviate the discomfort.

The uncomfortable relationship, the money issue, or the health issue are each offering me a gift. The gift is in the possibilities unleashed when I choose to love. How can I choose to love when I am angry, hurt, or in pain? I can focus on what I want to create instead. I can imagine the good that I desire. I can focus my attention on the good I already have. I can be grateful for what I am learning. In other words, I shift my attention from what I think I lack or what is wrong, to the joyous possibilities I can create.

As I cultivate an appreciation for what I desire, for what I have, and for who I am, I come into alignment with the Source. As I release judgments and forgive myself and others, I open up to the flow. As I open up to the flow, my new energy is manifested in the physical.

My judgments and condemnations are areas where I am spiritually bleeding. My intention to forgive is my spiritual band aid. I keep it clean by managing my thoughts, refusing to stay in fear, and focusing on what I want to create. My intention to experience inner joy aligns me with the pure positive energy of the Source, and I can expect to heal.

Each thought of joy and appreciation is a step toward healing, a gift to ourselves. Each moment of pain is an opportunity for healing, a gift to ourselves. Each moment of life is a gift we can accept with gratitude. We need not resist our good. We need not resist our pain. We can stop running away into the past or the future. We can choose to spend this moment in joyful anticipation. I offer this perspective as my gift to you. May you spend your days in joyful anticipation. Blessings to you.

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