Truth is a door which stays OPEN. I can NEVER close the door. I CAN choose to remain OUTSIDE of TRUTH. I CAN walk in the opposite direction. Yet I can never say: "I tried to enter, but the door was closed." The door is never CLOSED to me or anyone else. Whenever I feel the door has been shut in my face, I have interpreted my experience in a fearful way. I am believing the door is shut. It NEVER is...however my belief the door is shut may very well convince me, and others, this is true. Why? Because we have the "human habit" of listening to OTHER people.....I have the creative ability to make anything mean what ever I want it to mean. I do have a preference of outcome....and so I can choose to manipulate the meaning to produce feelings about the offered information I am hearing. I can take a "yes" agreement and make it into a NO, hear a "bad "suggestion and make it a "good" suggestion. That is how strong my beliefs are. The main thing I have learned over the years is to "update" and revise my beliefs..Instead of 'blaming people', investigate the systems...Life changes and so do it's circumstances, therefore it only make sense to me to change....LOL....''upgrade" my belief systems >>>>> Heaven help me if what I believed as true when 8 yrs. old is automatically "true" today.
So the manner in which I interpret my experience is IMPORTANT. When my expectations are frustrated, will I accept the REALITY or will I insist I am being unfairly treated? Am I the victim of what happens , or the one who uses it for learning? Am I receiving my experience as a blessing .....or as a punishment? That is the question I constantly ask myself. One of the statements I "learned" while working with Tony Robbins remains a good trigger device for me:
"There are no such things as Victims......there are ONLY .....VOLUNTEERS."
YES YES YES....volunteers to our own thoughts !
Every experience is an opportunity to embrace the "now" moment of Reality or reject it by my attempt at creating another interpretation of it. Yet one choice is neither better, nor worse, than any OTHER in this respect. All choices are equally potent. They exist......no question about that....however I suggest they ONLY and always, ALL WAYS, exist as a birthing ground for your use of your own brilliant Divinity.
On the oft chance you "are".....STOP trying to push the river of EXPERIENCE to go your way......STOP trying to change it's path. I doubt it will do you any good. The Divine Mind is at work in your brain right here, right now. Within this function lies the path to trusting your life is in perfect Divine order. Only you can add the "NOT" voice...only YOU choose your version of meaning attached to Life's happenings.
CHOOSE: are you being a 'victim' ....or a VOLUNTEER?
Jediah K. Ahern 
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