Dear Hearts, Here is a story.

It’s called Car Trouble.  Several days of trying to start the engine brought whrrrr, whrrrr, whrrrr, until reluctantly she turned over and shuddering, cut a path in four-wheel drive through the unseasonable snow.  I knew something was wrong, refrained from using the heater and the lights, but once home, I let it go. I shoveled my way into the house, forgetting the ride I would need the next day, the day my Mitusbishi died. This is a story of failure to take responsibility in a timely manner. It is a tale of winter’s harshness, an old car in need of repair and letting things slide.

One of the best things about storytelling is that you can tell it differently, emphasizing certain persons or circumstances, adding or subtracting events, coloring it with adjectives that set a new tone. These are ways of changing the heart-felt expression, ways of changing your mind, exercising your freedom to choose your experience. Creative power lies in choosing with God.

Here is the rewrite of my story.

This week I needed a new starter for my car. Trying to start the engine brought whrrrr, whrrrr, whrrrr, until finally she turned over, cutting a path in four-wheel drive through the unseasonable snow. How grateful I was for the paws of four-wheel traction. Back home that evening, I mused at the cold night and talked with God of the should do’s of my situation. The next day, to my delight, the MitsuBishi started. I drove to a friend’s house, shut her down, and there she slept, unwilling to be roused.
 
Now, it just happens that my friend owns an auto repair shop! It just happens that my children’s father had gifted me with a AAA card.  How amazing that I was given another car to borrow then and there! How interesting that Bitshi stopped running right at the door where I could wait in warmth and comfort. She was towed and is now glowing with a new part that is the jewel of hard starters. This is what happens when I share my thoughts with God. This is a story of Bitshi, God’s perfect timing and omnipresent love.

What might it be like if you no longer saw your creative power as a response to an unpredictable world outside of you? What if the Christ Self, instead, is the writer of the world? Jesus says: When you start over [rewriting], knowing that what you have been given is everything, your creatorship of your experience is a totally different exercise. You realize that your life is not you but that your life is an exercise in creatorship. A Course of Love (D:36.7)

Self joined in relationship with God, Which is and gives everything, creates an experience of Love manifest. Love is eternal creation, creating and recreating and creating space for everything created. This is another way of saying love makes all things new. (Choose Only Love, BookII:2.IV)

Perhaps you have been telling a tired old story of an uncreative, unloved experience, emphasizing the angle of the victim, portraying a picture of yourself where God is absent.  We have all done that.  We name it “life” or “the way it is.”  Perhaps you tell only half the story, wanting to hold on a little longer to the attention a hardship invites.

Might you consider changing your story, looking for the good, looking again at the environment and timing, looking with a willingness to find grace and a reason for gratitude? Might you consider your power to create?

If . . . heaven is truly a decision I make . . . a choice (A Course in Miracles L138) and a story the child of God is free to create, what story would you tell? What experience would you write if your life is Heaven? What does Christ have to say?

There are truly only two stories told again and again: love or fear.  When we tell stories with God, then love, peace, miracles, and harmony appears. God is not absent in our world, only in the way we remember and use our senses. God is Beneficent Intelligence behind all we make of life. Her Being, a silent embrace, holds every experience, every thought, all that is! Calling upon Her helps us see and reframe, giving us an opportunity to create anew, rewriting our unhappy stories.

What story are you telling? Love tells the truth. Love always communicates Truth. Illusions make us weary.  Perhaps we have come to the part in our story where we give responsibility for the Plan of good to God, unified in a relationship of creation with all that is God, with everything. Can you imagine that story? Can you imagine your…

Love is the essence
of genius expression
behind every niche
and manifestation
and every time maximal       

(Jesus in The Love of Your Life, Scalice, unpublished)

You have always been creating because you have always been one in being with God who is endlessly creating. But you are only now a creator in union and relationship. The difference here is all the difference in the world. (A Course of Love D:Day.36.10) . . . the difference between the day my Mitsubishi died, and a life of Omnipresent Love.

Creating is your joy, rewriting the book of your life with God is your true purpose on earth.

…your heart’s vocation,
to feel
to accept,
to enjoy,
to create.
That is,
to be the Truth
of your Self.
God gave you
One Identity
Omnipotent creativity
as part of Her very own Heart.
I share it with you freely
in constant communication…

(Jesus in The Love of Your Life, Scalice, unpublished)

MaryBeth Scalice, M.A., Ed.D., views her life as a living-breathing poem of God. Many years ago, her heart opened, her listening deepened, the breath fell away, and divine union was realized. MaryBeth is a counselor, writer, and teacher trained in humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Her work integrates psychology with spirituality, offering transformational heart-centered therapies for health and self-realization. She created the Foundation of Open Hearts, https://www.foundationofopenhearts.org and in 2019 published Write, Beloved, Write.