I Choose Life, I Choose Blessings

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13. I Choose Life - Choose Again

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
(Deuteronomy 30:19, KJV)

Often I found myself thinking I might die. I replaced the thought with,
“I choose life. I choose blessings.”

Often I found myself desperately trying to work out how to stay alive, I replaced the thought with,
“I choose life. I choose blessings.”

Sometimes I wanted to die - I thought it would be so much easier, I thought I might get some rest. I replaced the thought with,
“I choose life. I choose blessings.”

I repeated this scripture to choose life again and again and again.

Gradually, my world started to change.
Carers started to turn up.
They then started to turn up on time.
Then I got carers who adapted in a way that allowed me to talk, so that I had a better chance of asking for what I needed.

My survival was becoming less precarious, but I was still in a life-threatening situation. I persisted.
Although my circumstances said this wasn’t my choice...I chose to believe that as I changed the thoughts in my mind, I was giving God access to change my world.

If you have a hard life and you tell yourself the life you have is the life God wants you to have, then think again.

In the scripture above God asks us to choose between life and death.

In Genesis, the Bible tells us that we have been given dominion over the earth.

"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Genesis 1:26, KJV Bible)

The story of Hezekiah , that you will find in these articles on scriptures on healing, tells us that a change in our mind changes our world.

Over and over again we are told in the Bible, and even more so in A Course In Miracles , that our job is to pay attention to the thoughts of lack in our mind and bring them in line with the thoughts of abundance and provision God would have them be.

So please, let us choose life, choose blessings.

As we do, we choose them on behalf of all.

Consciously choosing life was one of many psychology self help approaches I took so as to live more successfully with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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