I’ve been scanning through a book that debunks positive thinking.  Well, the author sees all this affirmation, law of attraction, magnetizing good practice as being in denial.  She has all sorts of scientific evidence that prayer doesn’t really work, and spiritual healing is just an ambiguous theory without any grounds to stand on.  She was angry when she got cancer, and repelled all the “it changed my life for the better” routine. 

One phase that was used was “how can you continue to say the glass is half full when it is smashed on the ground.”  It’s a good point.  We are human.  We do get angry, sad, frustrated, depressed, and in horrible pain–in the heart and in the body.

I believe it is all about choice.  You can smile peacefully standing on smashed glass and say it doesn’t hurt.  Or you can scream and weep with a hangnail.  We furiously hoard and search for more money when wealthy, and also sit peacefully in a small shack in the woods and feel rich.  We can be persuaded by any convincing argument–if we choose to.

It’s up to me to choose.  Choice is powerful.  My struggle was to be aware that I did indeed have a choice.  Today I decide to live in a miracle.  I am surrounded by playful angels.  I see elves behind every tree shadow.  I hear fairies giggle when I walk to the bus.  And I feel the warmth of the Divine Friend leaning into my back as I work.

I don’t even need a 1/2 glass of water.