Open

Are you open today? I mean are you going to live this day in wonder and belief? Are you going to live this day as if it was the last to be lived, or walk around today with your eyes at a squint keeping everything and everyone away because of your mistrust of life? I say be open and live your life in wonder and belief. Be giving and kind. How else are others going to know how God operates and who God really is?

"No one lights a lamp, then hides it in a drawer. It's put on a lamp stand so those entering the room have light to see where they're going. Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. Keep your eyes open, your lamp burning, so you don't get musty and murky. Keep your life as well-lighted as your best-lighted room."

Luke 11:33-36

"Keep your eyes open." To be open means affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed, or affording unobstructed passage or view. So what will it be today - to live with your eyes almost shut keeping light out and everything that you have been given to yourself? This causes us to get "musty and murky." We live a life that is distrustful of people and God. We begin to get resentful and angry, depression can set in. However, can you open your eyes and let light in and seeing all the wonder and beauty that has been set before you today? Can you let light out and give to others and be kind to others? This will keep your life "well-lighted" and bring to your peace, joy, forgiveness, hope, and love. You know that feeling of a bright room that seems to wash all fear and hopelessness away!

Be open today and practice catching yourself allowing your eyes to close. You know when this happens. When you begin to think that everyone is out to get you, that the boss should not have done that, that things should not work out this way, that you never will get things right, that you have nothing to offer......... on and on we could go. When you "catch" yourself here begin to let your be wide open and let in light. You have made it this far and God will never leave you, people are doing their best, forgive them because they do not know what they are doing, what am I to be learning from this experience, I trust myself and when I do I am trusting God....... on and on we could go here also. Be open and let light fill you and others around you.

Namaste'