Gratitude

So, I bought myself some new Oracle Cards the other day. This one is Soul Lessons and Soul Purpose. I took a moment of quiet time tonight and drew three. One of which I drew the other day. They hit me hard and I've put their descriptions below.

Count Your Blessings

Everything is starting to fall into place. Open your heart and feel the blessings at hand; accept your beauty and grace, and let your inner self shine through. You're finally accepting the fullness of your Divine Spirit.

Your soul's purpose right now is to be a success story in the world. you're moving into direct alignment with your full potential. As unfamiliar as this is, all your hopes and dreams are beginning to manifest on the physical plane. You're starting to live a charmed life, and it's well deserved. Your blessings are abundant and flowing, even if you feel suspicious of all the goodness coming your way. This wealth is the direct result of your past efforts combined with your willingness to acknowledge all that the Universe has to offer you.

Your soul's lesson: Expand your capacity to receive goodness and love without resistance. It may take some getting used to, but let yourself fully absorb all the blessings that the Creator has to offer. it's the next step in the natural plan for your soul's growth.

Speak Up

Where in your life are you at a chronic slow boil? Where are you going along with the program but failing to express your true feelings? Where is there a serious divide between how you show yourself to the world and who you really are? In what area (or with whom) are you always agitated, yet deny or hide your anger?

Your soul is stoking up the fire on your passive-aggressive behaviors to burn off the patterns that keep you from speaking up and directly letting others know how you feel.

Your soul's purpose right now is to be authentic in your communication by first reconciling conflicts between your head and your heart.

Your soul's lesson: Take responsibility for your emotions and heed what they're trying to convey, rather than "stuffing" them with intellectual control. Recognize the difference between new feelings that provide valuable insight and information for creating direct and open communication and old, defensive patterns that cut off communication. Stop the battle between your head and heart and allow your ego and your spirit to become friends. Working together, they'll guide you toward peaceful relationships with others, especially when disagreements exist. Share your objections without attack or defense, but don't edit or water down your feelings in any way.

Refine your attention

The more that your soul begins to exercise direct influence over your conscious mind, the more you'll feel the importance of examining your present attitudes and behaviors. Are they receptive to your spirit and your Higher Self, and supportive of inspiration and assistance from the other side? Or do they cut you off from these sources, shut out their direction, and cause you to ignore your guides?

Recognize limiting attitudes and behaviors that make you feel isolated and that leave you in pain and frustration. Observe how you focus your attention and what's consuming your mental energy. Do your thoughts center on what supports you on both a practical and spiritual level- or are you scattering your energies on useless imaginings and debilitating thoughts?

Your soul's purpose right now is to refine your attention to a higher, more focused intention so that you can use your Divine Power to create in a more effective and rewarding way.

Your soul's lesson: Recognize how your present focus grows the garden call your life. Is it bearing fruit, or is it overrun with weeds?

I think that says all that needs to be said. I will take these ideas with me, and use them for great good.