| If anywhere in my life I still think that someone else or | | | | Independence where she states, enlarging Thomas |
| something else is the CAUSE of anything, I'm | | | | Jefferson's great statement to say, "We hold these |
| abdicating the very gift of the Universe/Life/Universe | | | | truths to be self-evident. All people are born creative, |
| Life/God that makes me as human - the quality of | | | | endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right to |
| Universe/Life/God that makes us most like Universe | | | | realize our creativity, for the goodof ourselves and the |
| Life/God - our FREEDOM. If I want to be among the | | | | world." |
| women attracting abundance spiritually, I need to see | | | | That is true freedom. So - Freedom, as a Quality of |
| myself as FREE and know that I am at Choice. | | | | God is about our ability to make choices and that's |
| FREEDOM is a Quality of God | | | | what the Law of Attraction is all about. When it's put |
| When we are speaking of Freedom as Universe/Life | | | | that way, who doesn't want freedom? How come we |
| God's quality, we are primarily talking about the gift of | | | | are not living in total freedom all the time. And yet, |
| free will. Free will is a basic right bestowed upon us by | | | | most of us reject the gift of FREEDOM because |
| our creator so that we can learn to be co-creators. | | | | along with it comes RESPONSIBILITY! |
| We don't ever create anything. We don't create out of | | | | Freedom does not mean the right to do whatever one |
| nothing. Only Universe/Life/God creates out of nothing. | | | | wants. Freedom is not license! Freedom also doesn't |
| But, it is in co-creation with Universe/Life/God that | | | | mean free from consequences. That's what we don't |
| everything comes into being. So, because we have | | | | like about the law. There's no sin, there are only actions |
| this right, we should use it, take advantage of the | | | | and their consequences. Often rather than accept |
| precious gift that it is. | | | | responsibility for our consequences, we claim actually |
| If you had purchased or was given a ticket to a | | | | not to be free. Most of us say, "I didn't have a choice." |
| BUFFET, you would then have the right to take from | | | | How many times do you hear yourself say that? Isn't |
| this buffet whatever you would choose to take. You | | | | that interesting? Who does? Who chooses your life? |
| paid your $9.95 and that then, gave you the right to | | | | Who chooses the things that are happening? Is it |
| eat whatever you choose. Would you sit down and | | | | someone else out there? It's so amazing. |
| complain that you didn't get any dessert, or salad, or | | | | A GREAT EXAMPLE |
| something that you chose? Not if you are thinking at all. | | | | I remember Stephen Covey at a seminar telling a |
| You would get up and go get it. | | | | story about a student coming to him and saying, I'm in |
| We spend a lot of our lives complaining because things | | | | this tennis final and I have to miss the last class. And |
| aren't the way we want them to be. But, we've | | | | Stephen Covey said, "You HAVE to?" And the |
| already been given the whole gift, to make the choices | | | | student said, 'Yes, I have no choice. I'm in these finals." |
| that we make and then, we say, it's not happening. It | | | | And Covey worked with him until this young boy could |
| must be something else out there. | | | | say, "I'm choosing to go to these finals instead of |
| A New way of Seeing Independence | | | | coming to class." And when he said that, Covey said, |
| According to the Declaration of Independence, we | | | | "Of course, go to the finals." |
| have been given certain unalienable rights by our | | | | Women attracting abundance spiritually all know that |
| creator, and we get to choose how we will use these | | | | they are at Choice. How FREE do you allow yourself |
| rights. Barbara Marx Hubbard, futurist, author and dear | | | | to be? |
| friend of mine, rewrote a line from the Declaration of | | | | |