A HEART THAT IS FIT TO RECEIVE



Nature's miracles

 

   Thank you #OWN, +Oprah & +Iyanla Vanzant!  You helped me gained a deeper understanding into a topic that puzzeled me for many years.  I watched #SupersoulSunday this past Sunday, and thankfully, it was a repeat of a previous broadcast.  Although I saw the broadcast before, I got a huge "ah ha" moment as I saw Iyanla's deeply emotional explanation to Oprah as to why she left The Oprah Winfry Show and how she felt that decision.  The place she was in at the time on her emotional and spiritual develpment she could not "receive" what was given.  She felt she had to "earn" it, and because of that she caved to an offer from a competing network that proved to be fools gold.

This was an incredible moment to watch!  What I say and heard was very clear.  Clearer than I ever seen it before - you can have the best of intentions towards another person, give then the greatest of opportunity, believe in them more than you believe in yourself, but unless they can "see it", meaning have a heart that is fit to receive this gift, your good intentions will end up causing hurt feelings (you, the other party(ies) or both).

What's the use, we pray for help, answers to our questions and solutions to our problems and when the prayers are answered, instead of graceously receiving and giving thanks for the benefits and favours received, we turn around and kick the gift horse in the mouth!  This type of hehaviour  is responsible for keeping humanity in pain and sorrow instead of joy, happiness and bliss as our creator intended.  One of the major short comings of many church organizations is that they tell you what you must do, but not the how.  However, there is a lot of help available, if the heart is ready to receive.  Even for healing, the heart has to be ready!

The lesson given in this broadcast  is very profound, because Jesus's teaching encompasses the act of giving and receiving and yet this is one of the most missunderstood aspect of christian living.  +Jane Fonda quoted in her #Lifeclass session on OWN, "we are called to be whole", not to be perfect"  -  or something like that, and it makes perfect sense.  In christian doctrine the focus is on perfection, trying to live in perfection against certain set of rules which in itself causes more burden. Instead the focus should be on emotional wholeness.  I honestly believe that if we achieve emotional wholeness living a clean wholesome life would be less of a struggle.  In Jesus' words, "my yoke is easy and my burden is light", thus my conviction that emotional wholeness (healing of the unhealthy emotional scars) will take us to that place.

Even though Oprah has been working on herself for so many years (in the public forum, I might add), she was still hurt by Iyanla's action.  That session was healing for both of them, and hopefully for many of their viewing audience, myself included.  I believe I have finally got this lesson because I've had so many incidences over my lifetime, and many in the last ten years.  Again, where there is a will there is a way.  I have been seeking answers, I have been open and my answers have been coming sometimes from the most unexpected places.  Again, staying open 24/7 allows spirit to deliver my miracles continuously and I am full of grattitude.

THE MAGIC OF SUMMER


Have a graceous day full of miracles!


MissSam
February 11, 2014