Behind the scenes in our lives are all kinds of beings and forces and energies conspiring for our benefit.

Here’s how most people are living their lives right now. We are the producers, directors, playwrights, stars, technical directors, and set designers of our own plays. We call these plays our “lives.” This is great except for one thing-we forget that we created all of these things in the first place. We start buying into them as being real and outside of our control.

And yet, working behind the scenes, the crew and technical staff are doing their best to help us remember that we are in charge. They are doing everything they can (without violating our free will) to help us remember that we can make the show as fun as possible. They are loving us as we struggle through the challenging roles we have created with all of the drama. They are waiting for us to turn the tragedies we have created into comedies. They are cheering us on when we improvise instead of following the script.

Just knowing this makes me feel better. I hope it does for you as well.

Go forth and make your life a fabulously inspiring spectacle that takes your audience’s breath away.

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When people find out about my business, I get to have some very interesting conversations. Recently, I was having a conversation with a lady about what makes a religion more or less true.

At some point in our conversation, it came to the point where I asked her what she knew to be true. She replied saying something like, “We believe that…” I pointed out to her that I was not interested in what she or anyone else believed. I also pointed out that I was only concerned with what she knew based on her own personal experiences and perceptions (not on the affirmations of a bunch of people called “we”).

She said that I was splitting hairs and playing games with semantics with the distinctions I was making between believing and knowing. Actually, no I wasn’t.

Here’s an example of the difference between believing and knowing that you may appreciate:

When I talk about my relationship with my wife, I speak about what I know, not what I believe. I know my wife from our almost 20 year relationship. I know her because I live with her, talk with her everyday, love her, experience her love for me, play with her, make love to her, laugh with her, cry with her, make money with her, face challenges with her, create things with her, travel with her-you get the picture.

I know my wife. I don’t know her completely and totally, but we have a relationship where I have confidence in who we are to each other because of the depth and quality of our relationship. When I talk about my wife, I don’t say, “We believe that [such and such is true]…” I say things like, “My wife is [insert any wonderful adjective here]…”, “We are [insert pretty much any positive phrase here]…”, “She is so good at [this wonderful and important thing]…”, “I love the way she [does something good]…”

I don’t tell people that I believe that my wife is anything. Why would I talk about what I think or believe when I actually know her to the extent that I do?

If you can only talk to me about what you (or what you and a bunch of other people believe) about God, you don’t know God. [If what I just wrote upset you, you really need to get to know God better!] We don’t get upset and defensive about who and what we really know. When we are challenged (like I am challenging you right now), we only get upset when we are afraid that we are wrong (and conversely, that the annoying guy pushing our buttons is right!).

We don’t know what we don’t know. If I were to somehow “lose” my relationship with God (or my wife or son for that matter), I would know what I was missing. I would be significantly challenged if any of those relationships ended.

If you don’t know God to this extent right now, I suggest that you carve out some time every day to seek God with all of your heart. This way you will begin to know what you don’t know right now. You will begin to receive something that can never be taken away. When it comes to God, you will be able to speak of what and who you know instead of what you and other people think and believe. There’s a lot more power in knowing God than you can currently imagine.

Go and know God!

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Since I am in the process of finalizing a workshop on the power of words, I figured now is as good a time as any to touch very briefly on this subject.

Everything is energy. All energy is power. All words are patterns of energy with the power to shape and literally create reality.

In the book of Genesis in the Bible, when God is creating everything, we can read how God did it according to this story, “And God said…” I found nine places where these words are used just in the first chapter of Genesis.

In this same book of the Bible, it says that God created human beings in God’s own image . The first thing God has Adam do, is name the animals, thus signifying humanity’s stewardship of God’s creation. The first thing God has Adam do is speak! Perhaps the names and words we use are important? Perhaps, like the God described in Genesis, we have the power to speak and make it so.

I contend that human beings have the very same power to re-create the world moment by moment with the words that occupy our minds and pass our lips.

So here are my questions for today: What words are residing in your mind and on your lips? Are they words chosen specifically to bring what you desire to you, or words that focus on what you do not want?

Whenever you find that you are using words that do not create your desires, please, please, please, let them go and replace them with words that do serve you and help to create a world that is truly a masterpiece!

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Last night I watched the movie Fearless. It was directed by Peter Weir. Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, and Rosie Perez starred in the film. It was deep, spiritual, moving, personal, and just absolutely wonderful. The story centers around the lives of  two survivors of a plane crash. Before the crash, Max Klein was afraid to fly. After the crash,  he claims to have no more fear.  

Ironically (for me anyway) the film came out in the same year that I had a powerful experience that gave me a taste of fearlessness myself. For three days I lived without fear of anything or anyone (at least as far as I remember).

If you have been paying attention to this blog, you’ll notice that I am really big on releasing fears with the goal of fearlessness. Here, I’d like to self-dislose what’s been going on with me lately to give you an idea of how deep our fears really do run.

In 1993 I experienced what I believe to be a form of  fearlessness that faded after 3 days. It 1997 I discovered a methodology for becoming fearless on a 24-7-365.25 basis that I have been practicing ever since that time with absolute fearlessness as part of my goal. Lately I have made a lot of progress toward my goal of fearlessness to the point where most fears that come up for me can be cleared very easily and effortlessly. Some need a bit more time and attention to release.

Despite all of the time, attention and energy I have put into the realization of my goal, I still have deep-seated fears that require healing and release. Fearless revealed another to me last night. Toward the end of the movie, another survivor says to Max Klein something like, “You can’t save everyone, Max.” In hearing those words, I realized that I was continuing to suffer from a fear that I had not yet completely released.

In that moment I saw myself more clearly. In that statement, I recognized that I had been feeling a kind of pressure to save everybody. This is a fear that for me is related to a few different things.

All of my life I have been afraid that I was not good enough, that I was not worthy of the biological real estate I had been blessed to inhabit (not unlike most or all of you reading this I’m guessing). Connected to this fear was the sense that I needed to do something of importance or significance in order to earn the right to claim my right to exist within the tiny swatch of the universe I call home. Underneath this was a lack of trust in myself, others, and God. I did not trust that God had not made a mistake in creating me. I did not trust that I was good enough because God had made me. I did not trust that just being myself and doing what I truly wanted to do was enough. No. I needed to do more. I needed to do God’s job of saving everyone. I needed to accomplish God’s job of saving the world for myself and by myself.

Thanks to Fearless, I have let go a bit more of my stranglehold on the idea that it is my job to save the world. I now have given myself a bit more permission to trust that God really does know what God is doing. Of course part of the reason I am here is to become saved and to help God with the work of saving others from the fears that hide their true magnificence. Of course I am to do the absolute best I can through my work and my being.

The difference is that when I can do these things with absolute faith and trust that God will pick up where my efforts fall short, I will be truly free and absolutely fearless. Because it does not all hinge upon me. Nothing depends solely upon me. I am a human being with the blessings that accompany existence as a created being.

I can trust God to do everything that I cannot do. I can trust God and others to do what is necessary. There’s no need to push, or force, or rush. There is now every reason to trust. My prayer right now is that each and every one of us may move more consciously into living from a place of faith, love, hope, peace, and joy. May we all do our best to support one another despite our fears until we can recognize that they are no longer necessary.

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For quite a while now, I have been an interpreter of dreams, my own and others’. Sometime after I started interpreting dreams, I realized that my waking experiences could be interpreted in very much the same way as those I had while being asleep.

The more difficult circumstances of our lives tell us the most about what we really think, feel, and intend. In these situations we can discover places within ourselves where we have not allowed the Power of God’s Love to heal our wounds and defenses.

If you want to learn as much as possible from what you are going through, here are some questions to ask:

• What would I need to believe about myself and/or life in order to have this experience?

• What fear did that situation bring out in me? Am I willing to let God clear that fear?

• How am I rationalizing about the situation to prove myself right? If I am, how would I think and feel differently if my heart was filled with Love and Compassion for myself and for everyone involved in this circumstance?

• What do I hate about myself that would lead me into this situation? When will I let God love me? When will I allow me love myself? What are the possibilities that I actually deserve love just because I exist?

• How am I judging myself? What’s the pay off for judging myself and/or others so harshly?

• In what ways do I feel powerless to do something about this circumstance? What are my pay offs for my thoughts and feelings of powerlessness?

Whenever we judge others harshly, that judgment is a reflection of how mercilessly we judge ourselves. Whenever we feel powerless, we are taking the role of a victim so that we can deny our power to be, do, and have what we truly want.  If you feel fearful, angry, jealous, or judgmental about someone else’s circumstances, you are projecting your own fears onto that situation, rather than dealing with your own personal mess.

You probably look in the mirror everyday to make adjustments to your appearance. Let us seek opportunities for love and forgiveness that are available when we use similar care as we examine the content of our lives. In taking the time to reflect upon our circumstances and reactions, we can recognize our choices to play victims and judges instead of seeking to become who we really are as empowered children of our Heavenly Parent. By examining our beliefs, assumptions, and feelings, we can more clearly perceive where we have blocked the flow of Love in our lives and suffered from the effects of our fear-based defenses.

Just as flowing water changes the landscape, so too will the flowing River of Love transform the landscape of your entire life if you allow it to do its work. Fear makes a desert of our lives. Love has the power to make us into lush and fertile places full of color, activity, and abundant life.

When we seek God’s Power of Love, we are no longer thirsty people chasing after mirages shimmering in the heat of our parched souls. We become people who do not chase after images in desperation. We no longer run away from that which we fear. As we experience the abundance of Love available within and without, we have more than enough to give. We have more than enough to live. We are also empowered to greet every situation, no matter how terrible, with hearts full of love and hope.

Death and violence come when love is denied. Life, peace, and healing come when we let Love in. In a world of passing clouds and shadows, may we all be places where Love is welcome. May we become oases for those who are living in fear.

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