I just got home tonight after being in St. Louis for the past week. I got to stay with one of my sisters and her family - plus more family from Michigan drove down to visit for the weekend. I also got a chance to talk and catch up with friends that I rarely get to see.

It's these kinds of trips that always lead to inspiring conversations. I spoke to my brother-in-law about his business. I had lunch with a friend who is a college soccer coach. Another friend and I met for breakfast to discuss his work. And, I had dinner with a friend and stayed up until 2am talking and philosophizing. Do you catch a theme here?

Yes - I only meet friends when food is involved :) Also, all of these people felt they were living and expressing themselves to their highest ability - and loving what they are doing.

One of our conversations led to talking about how some people seem to have the same problems over and over again. You know these people - you might be one of these people. It's okay, because odds are we have all experienced these kinds of patterns at one time or another. I know I have.

What tends to happen is that we will blame the negative experience on others - or just assume it was a freak incident. But, it happens again...and then again. Some of us - we might keep playing the blame game - begin to believe that people, co-workers, bosses, spouses, friends, our whole office, family, the chess team, every driver on the road, Mother Nature, and world is out to get us. Together they have formed one giant unified conspiracy determined to keep you down. Wow - I guess we are important!

Some of us though (eventually) start to think about our reoccurring problems more logically - even scientifically. For example - if the same thing keeps happening over and over again - what is one constant in the equation? What hasn't changed?

Me.

Yup, we're the constant. Not the world, not the weather (sorry mom and dad) - it's us! We are the constant element in every situation in our life. If we don't like the things that are happening to us...if we don't like how people are treating us...if we don't like what we are seeing...then what is it that needs to change?

Well, we could spend every minute of our day trying to control others and the world, and the weather, plus the economy, maybe even some politics, and every new boss who makes your life miserable. Or, maybe it's time to be real honest with yourself - and humbly try to identify what it is in your thought that is allowing this pattern to keep repeating. Yes, that means being accountable - and it's not always easy to do.

When I have done this in the past the result can be tough to handle. But once I have identified the problem it is much easier to find the solution.

Then it is time to address another constant...actually, the really BIG constant.

For me, identifying any lack of self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-worth in my thinking forces me to go to Love as the real constant.

Love is the ultimate and only constant! Whatever it is that seems to be tripping us up over and over again - we can always look to Love for a solution. Perfection is the result of Love. Abundance is the result of Love. Ability, strength, patience, humility - they are all the result of love - AND SO ARE YOU!!!

Reintroducing your thought and your life back into Love (where it has always been) allows you to free yourself from whatever false or negative ideas or labels you're believing. Since you are the product and result of Love negative ideas can't coexist with Love.

Speaking of constancy, a book I have mentioned once or twice ;)...Science and Health offers this little nugget of truth,

"Belief is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless."

So, what patterns or beliefs are you tired of seeing repeated in your life? Maybe it's time to take it to the only constant!

Much love everyone!

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