{"id":3221,"date":"2013-09-22T00:13:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2013-09-22T00:15:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:15:28","slug":"for-your-consideration-choose-the-story-you-want-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2013\/09\/for-your-consideration-choose-the-story-you-want-to-live.html","title":{"rendered":"For Your Consideration – Choose the Story You Want to Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will I be more loving today than I was yesterday.\u00a0 Will I be willing to see the good and not focus on the bad.\u00a0 Will I stop myself from complaining and celebrate what is beautiful in the eyes of my loved ones.<\/p>\n

In each choice you make, in each story you choose to believe in and discuss.\u00a0 You are either host to love or hostage to the ego.\u00a0 You choose which story you want to live in.\u00a0 It is as simple as that.<\/p>\n

LAST NIGHT…<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"bee\"<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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…AS I WAS SLEEPING<\/b><\/p>\n

I dreamt\u2014marvelous error!\u2014
\nthat I had a beehive
\nhere inside my heart.
\nAnd the golden bees
\nwere making white combs
\nand sweet honey
\nfrom my old failures.<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>– – Excerpted from Anthony Merchado’s Last Night While I Was Sleeping<\/i> translation by Robert Bly<\/p>\n

Let all the bees, elves, angels, helpers, whatever, do their job of making “sweet honey from your old failures” by being willing to be your best self unattached to the labels of yesterday.<\/p>\n

The pledge is simple.<\/p>\n

For the next 100 days…\"101<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0I am going to consider the possibility that there is another way.<\/p>\n

I won’t talk about war, I will feel peace.
\nI won’t talk about what isn’t working.\u00a0 I will experience what is.
\nI won’t complain about what people don’t do.\u00a0 I will appreciate what they do.
\nCura Et Labore “with care and work”
\nI am going to allow myself to be uplifted.
\nAnd.<\/p>\n

Be willing to see change.\u00a0 In a new light.<\/p>\n

In what’s remembered.<\/p>\n

Starting October 10, 2013 \u2013 101 Days of Loving Thought on Beliefnet.com\u2019s Flight of the Soul.<\/a><\/p>\n

lots of love,<\/p>\n

Melanie<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

– Full Poem-<\/p>\n

Last night, as I was sleeping,
\nI dreamt — marvelous error!\u2014
\nthat a spring was breaking
\nout in my heart.
\nI said: Along which secret aqueduct,
\nOh water, are you coming to me,
\nwater of a new life
\nthat I have never drunk?<\/p>\n

Last night, as I was sleeping,
\nI dreamt — marvelous error!\u2014
\nthat I had a beehive
\nhere inside my heart.
\nAnd the golden bees
\nwere making white combs
\nand sweet honey
\nfrom my old failures.<\/p>\n

Last night, as I was sleeping,
\nI dreamt — marvelous error!\u2014
\nthat a fiery sun was giving
\nlight inside my heart.
\nIt was fiery because I felt
\nwarmth as from a hearth,
\nand sun because it gave light
\nand brought tears to my eyes.<\/p>\n

Last night, as I slept,
\nI dreamt — marvelous error!\u2014
\nthat it was God I had
\nhere inside my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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