Affirmations

Image from my jade vine flower blossoms

 I decided to share the 3 morning affirmations I created that help me fix my steering wheel before I step on the gas:

I surrender to Your incomprehensible power. The magnitude of the thunder and lightning that rocked my trailer during the last storm was beyond anything I have ever experienced. It was way beyond trying to imagine standing under a huge jet taking off.  It was terrifying to my core, and both my large dogs tried to jump into my lap as they, too, were incredibly frightened. I felt utterly helpless compared to that immense power, like an insignificant grain of sand on a 4-mile beach.

Once I began to let go of the terror, I realized that the thunder that struck was my heavenly Father showing His might.  I relaxed and contemplated how protected I must be to have such a powerful Father who loves and watches out for me.

  I wondered how I could ever align with such mighty power that I could not even wrap my head around.  My brain seemed way too small to grasp its expanse. I was trying to have a relationship with that power as something separate thinking I could just get next to it. I did not need my intellect to surrender to what my intellect could not even comprehend. All I needed to do was surrender to it like diving into an ocean that has no boundaries. I only needed to want to be one with my Father and allow myself to surrender to Him.

 I began daily resurrecting the memory of the mighty power I felt that day and then reminding myself that it was my own Heavenly Father. I would affirm, “I surrender to Your incomprehensible power.” I had to have that word incomprehensible, or my pea brain would come forward trying to be involved and wreck the experience. How can the ego mind ever be involved with what it finds incomprehensible?

I am devoted to Your living presence. I am devoted to life. Since I have always loved nature, this affirmation has no ego mind that comes out and tries to oppose the statement as my truth.

 I am 100% open and receptive to Your underserved Grace and Love.  I had to add the word “underserved” to keep my ego-mind from inserting the doubt that I can totally and unrestrictedly receive God’s Grace and Love. There was always some part that held a veil of doubt that I deserved this. There was also some trace of doubt that I could totally receive in an unlimited and unrestricted way. The word “underserved” puts an end to that voice, so it tries but finds nothing to sink its teeth into. The ego-mind can only think in terms of earning God’s love and being worthy of it. This, of course, is the very opposite of the nonjudgemental nature of God’s merciful, unconditional, and unlimited love. He is forever trying to pour on and into us to heal not just one issue but heal our entire life if we can be 100% open and receptive enough to receive it all.