For the Joy of It!

Guest speaker Rev. Patrick Harbula speaks about life, resistance, peace, and joy. There's beauty in everything. Everything is perfect the way it is. Joy is not the opposite of sadness. Joy is this all-pervasive spiritual quality that can be present at any moment in time. We create our reality not from the presence of our personal self---we create our reality from our expanded self, our soul self. Our expanded self is creating this situation because there is something good in it for us, because there is an opportunity to simply move into a greater space of love, freedom, or joy. Our expanded self is choreographing everything perfectly. So, rather than asking, "What did I do to create this situation?", ask instead, "What's the greater joy, love, and freedom that wants to emerge here?" The only way to real peace is to give up resistance to what is. The ease in which we create what we want is directly related to the degree to which we accept what is. And then, we begin to find that life gets easier and easier.