Again, I am not telling you that if you have contracted a major illness, to just lie down and die. But if you have gotten something such as diabetes, MS, or something similar which requires a life-style change, then going with flow or swimming against it can determine if you survive or not. Chances are, you made this life script for yourself before you decided to come here. You were giving yourself opportunity to transmute Karma in a big way. Don’t blow it by being inflexible and angry; learn your limitations and do very best that you can every day.

Say that a loved one has adopted an attitude that is causing you pain. After telling them in best way that you can that they are hurting you, they choose not to change. You can’t change them. We can never, ever, change another person. We can only change ourselves. Rather than experiencing constant pain, wouldn’t it be better to let it go? Your pain is caused by your wish that things would be different. If they aren’t going to be, then adapt.

Your life is going to be just as easy, or just as difficult as you decide it is going to be. Learn to relax, learn to accept, learn to flow. You will be surprised at inner peace that acceptance can bring.

The Serenity Prayer:

GOD, grant me serenity

to accept things I cannot change,

Courage to change things I can,

and wisdom to know difference.

Living ONE DAY AT A TIME;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardship as pathway to peace.

As my son once told me, most profound line in this prayer is “the wisdom to know difference”. Learn that, and you have learned secret to true peace and happiness.

Having faith means that you are able to take a chance on something. Taking chances, even small ones, leads to opportunity. Even if you take a chance on something and it fails, you have learned something through experience. I know one thing for sure, if you stay in your house, waiting for something to happen in your life, you will die in your house, waiting for something to happen. You do not have to take a leap of faith, just take one step in faith, in words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Take first step in faith. You don't have to see whole staircase, just take first step.” I am reminded here of a scene from a movie. Towards end of third Indiana Jones movie (Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom), Indiana must cross an abyss to reach Holy Grail. There appears to be no bridge, no way across, only a long fall to certain death. He takes step anyway, and a bridge just appears out of nowhere. He took step in faith that he would not fall. That is exactly what I am talking about here. We all have ability to look inside of ourselves and find our faith in something or someone. Find it, and take that chance, reward will outweigh cost.