Be Careful What You Wish For
By Betty A. Walker

In a recent phone call with my sister, she asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I immediately answered with my common answer, "Oh I don't know, whatever you get me will be fine."

Then I got to thinking...

It dawned on me a little while later that I was reacting in the same way in many parts of my life. Instead of thinking about it and asking for what I really wanted, I would leave it up to the sender to give me what they thought I would like, and then telling myself that I would be okay with whatever they happened to send my way.

If I see this as a reflective metaphor, I have spent most of my life taking whatever comes my way and telling myself that I'm okay with it. But suddenly now it dawned on me --

How can the universe send me what I really want if I don't come right out and ask for it?

What do I expect the universe to do, guess what my desires are? Is it somehow suppose know what my deepest desires and dreams are? It can send me its best guess, just like my sister when she goes to buy that Christmas present for me. But what if I really have something that I'd like and I don't say anything. Who's fault is it if I'm disappointed, or don't get something that I could really use? It's my own fault, isn't it? It's so obvious now...

In Napolean Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich", he talks of having Mastermind meetings where you state clearly and decisively what it is you want to be brought into your life. And that's exactly what I'm now starting to do. Through affirmations and intentions, I am changing my own dialog by stating how I want my life to be and asking for things I truly want to have in and around me. I state it as if it has already happened for me. I state it as a truth of my being that is now showing itself to me as a part of my world and reflective being.

I state my truth and my truth is... I follow this statement with whatever I want to be part of my life - for example: "My truth is I am a successful business woman working from home in an ever-increasing prosperous home business." If I find myself having trouble believing a new truth, I remind myself by saying something like, "Although this may not show as a truth in my life at the moment, it is still a truth and is becoming more a part of my life everyday." Or I also like using...

I am so grateful now that I have blank in my life...

Find whatever phrases work for you and start asking for what you really want. Let those negative thoughts bubble up to the service and then kick them to the curb - tell yourself they no longer serve you and you are replacing them with thoughts that truly describe how you want your world to be.

I now feel as if I have a direction, a means to help control the outcome of my world. I am truly in control of my own destiny. I now have my hands on the wheel - now if I can just find that gas pedal I'll really be on my way!

Peace & Prosperity, Betty A. Walker
Editor, AllThingsSpiritual