“You can spend 100 years in a garage and that don’t make you a car,” Tabitha Brown.  A good follow up to our conversation yesterday as it goes more in depth in regards to both alignment and action.  As we spoke about affirmations and their ability to lay the foundation of who we are, it’s important to remember that those affirmations also need to align with who we are inherently—not who we think we need to be, but what is already naturally inside of us.  We can’t simply say we are something we are not already embodying or feeling to some degree.  We need to do things in line with who we are.  Tabitha Brown trends toward a more spiritual/religious approach and that is definitely one area that I struggle with.  I feel like I need to control everything, that I always need to be vigilant and do my part. But hearing Tabitha speak, I understood that relationship with a higher power a bit differently: Our relationship with source is personal and it requires honesty.  Universal energy doesn’t lie, and if we do things not in line with who we are, we will never feel right.  If we say one thing and do another, that energy can’t coalesce into anything.

I’m not prepared to have a theological conversation on this platform, that isn’t my goal, but I still want to have a discussion about faith.  You don’t need to subscribe to a religion in order to have faith, but you do need to have trust.  I’ve struggled with trust my entire life so I admittedly still struggle to trust that things will happen—which is why I control as mentioned above.  I have never been taught to rest in assurance that things will unfold for me—I have no problem believing that for others and I’ve witnessed it.  But for some reason, it doesn’t translate to me.  I don’t know if it stems from loss early on or from disappointment in my relationships with others, varying degrees of people I was supposed to trust not following through, of always having to be the strong one and forgive early on.  I learned if I wanted something to happen, I needed to make it happen.  Not that I lacked the things I needed, but I didn’t know the extra was available to me—I settled for the basics and anything extra was a gift.

The point is this: we can say we are something but if we don’t align with it and act from that space, the universe doesn’t know what to provide.  It requires a degree of faith to rest assured in who you are and to believe that your purpose will unfold as long as you stay to your path.  I will stand by everything I’ve written and shared with you over these years in spite of, and perhaps because of my own fears—I truly believe it is possible to achieve whatever goal you set your mind to.  It just requires action from that place, from that state of being.  That requires trust to take the first step even if you can’t see the entire road before you.  Sometimes you have to simply settle where you are and allow the pieces to fall into place.  We don’t have to be in a constant state of doing, we just need to find ways to do more of the things in line with who we are.  Fear is chaos and good can’t settle in chaos.  Sometimes we need to let the good envelop chaos like a blanket in order to calm the storm.  We have to trust that there is good in all that happens and we need to trust that it all happens for a reason.  That assurance is the blanket and we need to wear it and move from that place of knowing.