{"id":35545,"date":"2014-02-18T01:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T06:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=35545"},"modified":"2014-02-18T01:41:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T06:41:20","slug":"if-i-think-i-have-a-message-for-you-that-message-is-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-i-think-i-have-a-message-for-you-that-message-is-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"If I think I have a message for you, that message is for me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mirror<\/a>I’ve learned that every time I think I have a message I need to tell someone, that message is for me. You, too.\u00a0 Wait, I can’t say that.<\/em> If I think it’s for you, it’s for me. If you think it’s for me, it’s for you. If either of us are thinking there is a “you” and a “me” that are not one and the same, we are hilariously mistaken. Always, I ask, “What is my lesson in this? If this is for me, please show me how it applies.<\/em> If I feel offended or in any way triggered, I know I have emotional work to do.\u00a0 Please open my eyes, guide me to that work and give me strength to accomplish that work<\/em>.” That’s a variation on the prayer I said for years, “Guide me to do your will and give me strength to bear your will.”\u00a0 The words of my prayers change as I awaken to an ever-deepening understanding of the nature of God. The deeper my understanding, the more I realize there is zero separation between any of us, and the quicker I rebound from feeling offended.\u00a0 It’s a process. It still happens. I think I have a message for someone and it turns out that message is for me.\u00a0 Thankfully I am quicker to recognize it than I used to be. Did you think this message was for you?<\/p>\n

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