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No man can serve, follow two masters

BARBARA ECKHARDT
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

Have you ever had times in your life when things weren’t going right? Days, weeks, months, years when no matter what you did, it was like pushing boulders uphill? Let’s face it, life can be difficult. For those of you who are still having problems, I have some ideas for you to consider. First of all, when you are going through a tough time, take a deep breath and relax. See clearly what you need to change in yourself. What are the inner demands, attitudes, beliefs, and emotions that you feel in yourself that are causing you so much turmoil? The most difficult thing for us to learn is that life is lived from the inside out. That means that you experience the world around you through your senses. Thus, if the world you’re experiencing is difficult and painful, it is your thinking that must change. You can never change the world or those around you, no matter how hard you try. The attempts that you make to force life to fit your mental and emotional expectations are by far the biggest cause of any difficulty or unhappiness you may be experiencing. If you have burning anger or resentment inside you, everything you touch will burn. Only you can deprive yourself of anything. You seem to have two parts to yourself. There is the real you, and the false ego you. The real you is in constant communication with your God or Spirit, the source of your life. When you tune into this part of you, you feel peace and love. The false you, the ego you, is the part that is always afraid you’re not good enough, that you won’t succeed, that you don’t measure up to others, that you are too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too anything. Most of the time, we seem to walk a balance between listening and following our inner knowing or acting in response to our outer fears and terrors.
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