Are you still squirming with excitement to get up in morning? Do you have zest in your relationships, career and spiritual life you dreamed of having when you were a kid? If your answer is "Not yet," why haven’t you been able to create abundance you want?

WE ARE EACH BEINGS OF LIGHT

Within that light are all colors of rainbow—all aspects of God and humanity—all power of our natural spiritual abilities. Why do some of us open to full spectrum of our magnificence and power?

BLACK AND WHITE

Why do most of us continue to see only black and white? My Dad was colorblind his whole life. He was a "good" man—faithful husband, dutiful father, respectful son, hard worker, trusted employee, solid citizen, on school board, town council, church elders—heck, he was even Mayor of city—but he only saw world as various shades of gray. He often asked me as a child what color different flowers were. I’d describe to him planet I perceived as best I could. As a child, I often wondered why he chose not to see all colors of rainbow of life.

TOO MANY CHOICES?

Funny, I always saw his colorblindness as a choice, a decision. I could feel my father’s fear of being bombarded with too many colors to look at—too many attractive choices, too many exciting paths to follow in life. I could feel his relief, his comfortableness, in not seeing too many attractive possibilities—and in doing so, not having to choose between too many intense passions and divergent options.

I cry for my father and all other men, and women, who choose to limit their exposure to disappointment and frustration in life by limiting their vision—who decide to be safe, rather than sorry, within their gray skies and gray walls.

I CRY OUT OF LOVE—AND UNDERSTANDING

I know why they look away from alluring bright lights, captivation of dazzling dawn, and frighteningly brilliant hues of a fiery sunset. They are scared of bring snared, captured, by wonders of world if they acknowledge infinite magic of each moment, aliveness of unchecked spontaneity, wild electricity of every life encounter. They feel risk where others see adventure. They feel threat where others see opportunity. They feel danger where others see liberation.

ADVENTURE OR RISK?

The secret is this--to be happy we must choose to be happy. That’s it! Just like picking out our favorite brand of peanut butter at grocery store, to be happy we must simply choose happy from other states of being available to us.

But how can you be happy when your job is in jeopardy or you’ve lost your job? How can you be happy when your health is poor, your spouse is angry, and your children think you’re an idiot? Why is it we refuse to accept that happiness is a choice we may make at any time? The deadly illusion of need and its accompanying emotion of fear keep getting in our way.