Dhrumil

"What I pray for, and I struggle with this every day, is I ask God, “Do not take this experience away, but give me the strength to perceive this experience differently.” And these are my prayers. Life happens. People die. People get AIDS. People that you love get very, very ill like my own dad. And that’s life. It’s a bummer. And on a very human level, I wish it could be different. But on a spiritual level, that’s just how it goes down. And we can suffer by trying to make it different and trying to will our perception into trying to understand it or get it. Or we can ask spirit to give us the strength to view an experience in a way that can be more empowering to the whole. When you’re perceiving an experience differently, what I have to do is say God is in all the moments, the light and the dark. And the fact that it’s been delivered to me gives me the opportunity to either step into love or to step into fear. It’s my choice. Give me the strength so that I can move towards love, and if I can’t, help me to understand the purposefulness of my fear. And I say it as though it’s easy, but it’s probably the hardest thing ever. But I know in my own soul that this is the way that I want to work."