The following blog post is written by Melinda and is NOT channeled material…
Sometimes it's best to just stop and listen...
Sometimes I think we can get caught up in the doing of life and stop being life. This has been my experience lately and it’s why I took a break from channeling blog posts here. I needed to come to a full stop as if I was a ship that wanted to go in ten different directions at once. I couldn’t go anywhere until I stopped and consulted my navigational maps and made some decisions. So, this is what I have been doing and probably will continue to do for awhile longer. But sometimes, when you come to a full stop and simply listen, really listen, you can do and be things while you are standing still in the middle of the ocean.
I needed to stop and listen for awhile and let go of trying to be and do so many things. I just needed to sit and stop or stop and sit. This is what spirit suggested I do and I listened. So, I’ve been stopped for about a month and I resisted it a lot at first and felt guilty about not posting here and letting my twitter page fall by the wayside but it was necessary. I needed a break and to wait and listen for my next steps.
I feel like I finally let go completely towards the beginning of this week and it felt good to really let go of any preconceived notions of what kind of business I was going to make out of my spiritual work. I opened myself for any ideas to come forward. I tried not to influence the direction at all for how my spirituality would develop into some sort of “paying gig” for me. You know that’s how our mind works right–I need to make a living — I need x amount of dollars to contribute to my family to keep us going and pay our mortgage, etc. I kept trying to look at what I was doing and see how to make money off of it and that just felt so wrong, you know? It does not seem like the right direction for me. I need to come to a full stop when I start thinking like that.
So, I’ve tried to let go of how this gift will make me money and am trying to look at what I can contribute to this world, to the people I love, and to my own spiritual understanding. That feels a lot better. And then, I’m going to practice faith that I will be taken care of financially. I’m going to set intentions and believe that me and my family will be taken care of and to not judge or try to influence how that happens exactly. I need to be open to the “how” for that to take place and just let go and trust that it will. I hope this makes sense.
During this full stop, I’ve had time to explore some inner spiritual work which I’ll write about in The Power of Prayer?
