Below is a "guest" post - by 'Apple lady' :-)
“Apples or Peaches?” is a question I always had. To give more details
let me present my question. I feel there is a thin line between compromise and
positivity. Let’s say you want to eat an apple. You are really craving for an
apple. You can almost feel how wonderful it is to bite into your crispy apple
and enjoy its sweetness. With that thought you walk into a farmer’s market,
excited to enjoy your apple. But its not apple season, its the time for
peaches. Beautiful juicy yummy peaches all around you. So, what would you do? Would
you buy a peach and say may be this is what is meant to be? May be peach is
good for me? I will accept it and enjoy it. Or would you say good to see
peaches, but I would still want to eat my apple
. What would you do? If the peach makes you happy, forget
about the apple then the peach is really meant for you. You should go for it.
But if in-spite of enjoying the best peaches of the season, you still crave for
your apple what should be done? I personally think go for your apple. At least
that is what I want to do, get my apples, and not compromise on peaches.
Peaches are not for me. May be after trying the apple, I might want some
grapes. That is ok because it would be my decision at that point not a decision
I was forced to obey or was expected to abide by.
Now does that work, is the biggest question. Will it be considered as
arrogance? Will I be punished by God, universe, or supreme self for not
accepting the "peach" and going after the "apple"? I think
No. Because everything goes from inside out and not the other way around. If
God is all about Love, and only means well, He is above all the feelings of
anger, rejection, arrogance. By that I mean if you thank him for the peach and
continue your journey toward the apple, He will just assist you. and eventually
make it happen. Now that is self love. You love and care for your decision or
choice to the point that you are not ready to give up or compromise. And when
you take care of yourself you will have the love and energy to do the same for
others.
How do I know all this? Well I m learning it all myself... but I did do
an experiment
. People who know me will tell you how I love the ‘why’s
and ‘how’s and ‘what if’s? Curiosity is my second nature. So, let me tell you
about my experiment. I was listening to "Awesome AJ”, I enjoy his small
10-minute videos on law of attraction. One of the videos he said try
manifestation with something small... like a rubber duck. Yes, you heard it
small yellow rubber ducky. He said think of it and it will show up as an image
somewhere on TV or website you surf. So, I did. But I imagined that I am
holding it in my hands. So that is my apple. I do not want to see an image of
it, I want to touch it. Usually its there in homes that have small babies and I
have grown up kids. So, it was going to hard, but I wanted to get some answers.
First 24 hrs nothing. Next day I saw a real duck in a TV series I watch. I
said, ‘thank you’, but I want to touch and feel a rubber ducky. Third day I saw
a green ducky image on my son's shampoo bottle. I again said thank you
universe, but I still want to touch and feel a rubber yellow ducky. By now
trust me I thought maybe I am pushing it. But I continued. 4th day I walked
into my daughter's room to give her a message from her friend. She is 17. We talked
and I turned around and saw 2 yellow rubber duckies on her desk. I gasped and
picked them up. I could touch and feel them. I asked my daughter where did she
get these and she explained that her math teacher likes to give out rubber
duckies to her students who do a good job. She was proud to get 2. She had lost
them, but cleaning lady who had come a day before found them and put them on
her desk.
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why just 'OR' - make it an 'AND' :-)
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I felt humbled and loved at the same time. For me that was the biggest
lesson of self love that I needed to learn and also got a glimpse of the
abundant enormous energy power, we refer to as GOD.
So, the Universe will give you whatever you are ready to work towards...
apples or peaches. Nothing is enforced on us; we sometimes give up or lose
faith in our self.
