Seeing Things As Though
They Are
I’m still
reveling in the celebration of the life of Nelson Mandela. More than a few
folks wrote to tell me that they too were moved by Mandela’s ability to see
beyond the possible. Mandela believed that no matter how difficult the task; if
it was righteous, than it was inevitable.
I marvel at
the fact that President Mandela began to write his book The Long Walk to Freedom while he was still in prison. He’d been
there for more than two decades and yet he knew that he would not only be
released, he also realized that he would need a plan for the transition of a
country that had been locked in oppression.
We all have things
we desired to see happen. What if we approached them as Mandela, Lincoln, King,
Wilberforce and Mother Teresa? What if
we viewed our condition as a temporary state on our way to completion?
I’ve recently dealt with a great deal
of injury and illness. I’ve had to go through the growth of my children and
their issues and concerns. I’ve confronted family matters and matters of the
heart, but today, I see them as resolved.
I am anxious for nothing and count
every trial as joy. I see my desired state as the state that I am already in.
We go through life with the attitude
that we will believe it only when we have seen it. Know this; you cannot see
until you believe.
Mandela
looked beyond the end of Apartheid and began to see Reconciliation. WOW! Even
before the oppression had ended, he had already begun to say, “I forgive you.”
Today and
every day that follows, I’d like you to go ahead and forgive yourself—then I’d
like you to see yourself as forgiven. Walk in the belief that you already are
what you desire to be.
The love you
need is now.
The life you
want is in front of you
The loved
ones you crave are with you.
The joy you
seek already exists.
See your success now
and you will be ready for it when it is made manifest.
Be you, be well, be
seeing.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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