Choose Your Colors

By Stephanie E. Wilson-Coleman
Author of Be Sure You Dance:  Life’s lessons to make every moment count,
Embracing Life’s Lessons and Is Anybody Listening?
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     Every moment is filled with all the possibilities life has to offer.  One can find happiness, sorrow, joy, sadness.  One can find prosperity, poverty, abundance and lack.  It is said that life is a canvass and we color it with acts of beauty, kindness, generosity and self-expression.  The question we must answer is how do we express our authentic self?
     Moment to moment we choose love or fear.  We decide if we are coloring our lives and our experiences with peace, hatred, harmony or ill will.  I have learned we all have access to the same power.  Until we learn to better control our thoughts and stay in alignment with God’s will, we will always create a life filled with a smorgasbord of experiences.  In spite of the circumstances, we still have a choice. 
     In today’s supercharged world, we are overwhelmed by the number of books filled with useful techniques to help us create a ‘positive attitude’.  If you could only choose one, I would recommend the colors gratitude and appreciation.  Using these colors are enough to guarantee you paint a pretty canvas.  Staying focused on the good that is continually present in our life requires us to always live in the present moment, in the now while turning a deaf ear to the tales of destruction beckoning for our attention.  If you are alive, this magnificently opulent universe has flooded your life with wonders; every hour, become still enough to appreciate these wonders. 
     Of course when all about us is going our way, appreciation and thanksgiving effortlessly roll off our tongues.  It is when the blessings are wearing the colors of darkness, despair, envy and hatred that we are blinded.  It is during these times that we have to persist in switching our attention to the good.  We have to stay focused on the uplifting colors.  Because life is not one dimensional, we can always find something to celebrate.  There is always some reason to praise, rejoice.  Each experience is filled with something marvelous.  Use your vision, your focus to find it.  You do create your own life, so choose pretty colors. 
     In all that you may experience, praise, praise, praise.
     Live the life you have imagined.  Dream Big. 

      

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