Think of what’s on your list of things that you need to rise up and above.
The things that make it to your list are the things that have been bothering you – your biggest worries, fears, and deepest concerns.
Rising up and above things on your list is a powerful tool to use, even for the long-term challenges of your life.
I’d like to share with you how my mom did this and influenced me to do it.
She often expressed out-of-this-world joy through music, especially spiritual anthems and hymns. As our church choir director, she had a talent of choosing and delivering songs that had great inspiration and gave people a closeness to God that she herself felt and revered.
Always, during the week, I heard her practicing the songs, while playing them on the piano and singing. During choir practice (all our family sang in the choir) she led us by revealing her tremendous joy over the songs of praise for God. Her passion was contagious!
I called her my Hallelujah mom!
However, she carried something deep within her, a secret she only mentioned a couple times and preferred not to discuss. Her dad and grandfather and uncle were all alcoholics. They all lived under the same roof. I empathically felt her sadness as I often heard her sing the blues.
My childhood was characterized by her music, which said it all.
After she departed, I was awakened one night in deep thought about her childhood and how difficult it must have been for her. I could sense the compassion she had for the men in her family when she was a child. They were all good men but, unfortunately, they were alcoholics. I could also sense her unspoken rage and anguish. She mentioned once that she lived with many disappointments from her dad.
As I sat in contemplation with these two dichotomies – her joy and sadness, I drank in her pain. But I also drank in her hallelujah. These were opposites. Yet, the one force that rose above the other one, and became dominant, was her joyful hallelujah. She lived it by singing out big!
Her joy also was expressed in her childlike, spontaneous playfulness and, at times, she was hilariously funny, without even trying. She carried big joy most of the time during my childhood. I feel very fortunate that I had a happy mom and that she left me her legacy of rising up above her sadness and triumphing.
The key to her success was in choosing something more powerful than her sadness. She had joy in God.
Here are two ways to use the skill of rising up and above. See which works best for you at this time.
- Think of how big, grand, and powerful divine Love is. Give it full credit for creating you and for its immensity of love for you as it’s own precious creation. Imagine this love being with you now, offering comfort throughout, as it cleanses away your biggest problem held so deeply within. Sit with this and imagine it occurring. You are rising up and above.
- Think of a time in your life when you had an insurmountable problem, which you no longer suffer from. You may not be able to trace its disappearance or how and why it disappeared. But the fact that it was once your biggest problem and now it’s gone, tells you that this is possible again. Make space for this as you contemplate this as possible and even probable. Let this thinking begin to organize and manifest your freedom while you take comfort in this process. You’re rising up and above.
During this period of world crises, you can reach deep within and find many inner resources of strength and power that you hadn’t before realized were there. You can experience a birthing of something that you didn’t know was possible, which will help you to cope and rise up and above.
You can also reach for a Higher Power that you can call in, perhaps with its angels, to guide and protect you, causing you to feel safe, well, and happy once again.
With this I send my love.
