It's pretty amazing to think of the amount of power that we have available to us. Just our cars, for example, give us a huge amount of power--the power to travel, to get places quickly, to move heavy objects easily, not to mention the pure power that is created when the engine is running. We can communicate with people anywhere in the world at a moment's notice, and we have almost instantaneous access to news that years ago would have taken a long time to get.
How do we use our energy? To communicate? To spread love and compassion? Or to try to control the many things that we think we need to control? Sometimes we spend so much of our power trying to control things that are out of our control that it ends up seeming like we have no power at all.
Our powerlessness seems to come as a result of situations that reveal it, but in truth, we are not powerless--we only seem to be when we misdirect our energies. If we can find positive ways to expend the powers that we have, then we'll find that we don't seem powerless any more, and the more we're able to do so, the more our confidence will grow, and the less often we'll seem powerless. . . . it's one of those very positive cycles that only we can put into motion.
Free will is not the liberty to do what one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulses. There lies freedom indeed.
Peace, Lisa
