June 2023

Reverse your perceptions, to see what was good and beneficial comes from your adverse and negative experiences. Review your experiences to make certain that you have captured the fullness, as well as the essence of the lessons that you are to derive from your experiences. Experiences are engaging and if attentive you will see the forest in the midst of the trees. Experiences have taught many lessons that were not realized in another manner. Make sure you understand that the challenges strengthen you enabling you to see the need to improve yourself and know yourself. Experiences with others also demonstrate the need for others, individually and collectively to improve. We are all characters on the stage of life performing many roles at various times, under an array of situations. We are confronting the karma in which we ourselves created and we are learning our obligations (Dharma). Such obligations - the dharma and karma - the reaping or awarding of our previous acts are the challenges to be mastered and the mission to be accomplished. Dharma and karma are presented to us at various stages of our existence so that God’s divine presence in us, through us, and for us might be glorified. It is important to realize that our karma comes during moments when we have been developed to confront it. Our Dharma which is ‘the call’ of our existence or life purpose must also be accepted to rightly fulfill our life mission. Do not look back with a mind immersed in hate or resentment. To rectify your life, you are to repent. Repentance is when you are resolved to transform your life for the better. Repentance requires changing your thinking to improve your character and circumstances. Repentance necessitates being resolute in your will and actions. Through repentance, you will be able to reverse your path from the negative to fulfill the higher aspirations of your divine call from God. Realize God’s love and faithfulness are enabling you and empowering you to master and conquer those challenges; to recognize and realize your higher human and divine potentials. Look back to forgive and untie the cords that bind you to pains and foolish pleasures. Review your negative experiences, to free your soul and mind of notions of defeat, debasement, despair, doubt, or any other troubling perceptions of self. Free your soul so that God might be glorified. Read the 149th Psalm this month.