Lynne Herod-DeVerges, founder Center of Light Miracles
“The Circle of Life” a song made famous by the theatrical production of Disney’s The Lion King, is a wonderful concept that expresses how life continues to flow. Although the song infers a process from life to death to a renewal of rightness in the world, the circle of life also denotes an act of love through the process of giving and receiving. It can mean giving love and receiving love in return. But it can also mean giving of your time and receiving the time you need to complete a project, attend an event or perform any other kind of task you need time to do. It may be giving of your talents or money and receiving those things back in the same way. The process of giving and receiving is simply the Law of Reciprocity at work! And boy, does it work!
For everything you put out into the universe, you will find it returns right back to you. I like to think of this as the Law of Attraction working in a most orderly and divine way. This Divine Law of Attraction, of course, has no positives or negatives; right or wrong. It simply honors, through the merging of energies, what is floating around out there, and then presented to you in like kind. So, it’s important to be aware that if what you “give” is hardship and heartache to someone else, no matter who it is, you will “receive” hardship and heartache in return – perhaps not from the same person you gave it to or maybe not even from a person at all. But you will receive it from life events or circumstances.
If there is but one thing I could give to you as my gift, it would be the understanding that when you are operating as your full and divine best self, you will, in turn, receive the divine best gifts in their fullness. You know, this is the time of year when Santa Claus is reported to visit everyone’s home providing joyous gifts of love in the form of whatever a person desires: toys (electronic and otherwise), new clothes, a home, jewelry, a pet, a special trip or vacation, and other sundry items. If you’ve been good – or, in other words, if you have opened your heart to loving others, reveled in appreciation of what you have, forgiven yourself for past and present actions that you’ve not been proud of, and accepted your own divine personal power – then Santa will fulfill the miraculous desires of your heart. But, on the other hand, if you continued to gossip, complain, judge, criticize, harm others and yourself, live in fear, and entertain other negative attitudes, then he gives you a lump of coal in your stocking.
Of course, the character of Santa Claus and his gifts is a metaphor representing the unconditional love God has for you. No matter what, He will give back exactly the type of energy that you have given out throughout the year. If you believe you have given wonderful, good and mighty things, yet what you received was a lump of coal, be aware of what has lain behind your giving. Because what you receive in like kind is based on the feelings, thoughts and emotions from which you give. If you give to make yourself seem like a great person (from ego), if you give to get something back (manipulation), or if you give to get out of something (avoidance behavior), be aware that what you will receive are events, circumstances, and items offered in a manner you may not desire.
What you receive in these examples are miracles for they show you where it is important to correct your thinking, feeling, doing, and behaving in order to recalibrate your heart and enhance pure agape love. Then, once you have shifted the way in which you give, desired miracles will pour in for you to receive.
This holiday season, as you enjoy festivities with family and friends, remember that the blessings you give are the blessings you receive. Therefore, give divine love to others as well as to yourself, and you will receive divine love in return. It is how Divine Source has orchestrated it to be – for in your giving and receiving lies the circle of life.
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