An attachment is an emotional state of clinging due to the belief that without some specific thing, person or circumstance, I cannot be happy.  It is cyclical in that you experience a  moment of elation when you get that which you are attached to, which is quickly followed with a sense of fear that you may lose that which you are attached to.

I have found that the less attached I am to the response of the world around me, the more peace and focus I have to inspire, create and love deeply in this world.

I recently returned from traveling and speaking with The Women of Global Change, definitely worth checking out this POWERFUL tribe, next year we are going to serve in Costa Rica.  We visited and worked on orphanages in Honduras.  I walked away from this experience with several remembrances that involve the experience of attachment.

I remember one time during my journey through cancer looking at myself in the mirror bald and breast-less .  “WOW” I said, “I am still alive, able to give and receive love even though I look like something out of Star Wars.”  I realized the power I felt within as I remembered this simple truth, “I am not my hair, breasts or anything I have attached my sense of identity to that exists outside of me.  I remain complete in my natural God given state of wholeness.”   As my 10 year old son said when he caught me weeping over the loss of my hair, “Mom, don’t cry, your soul still has hair.”

It’s true, our soul remains intact no matter what situation we find ourselves in during this life.  When we remember the truth that we are first and foremost spiritual beings having a physical experience, we gain access into the ability to experience love in the midst of anger, peace in the midst of turmoil, joy in the midst of sorrow and laughter in the midst of scarcity.  I witnessed this phenomenon first hand as I played with the children in Honduras.  Some may say when perceived from a physical view point they have nothing, yet when you see their choice for laughter, playfulness and love you witness the power of the Spirit and its God infused ability to maintain inner peace and joy no matter what surrounds it.

Joy, love and peace flow from within the one who remembers that its natural state of being in this world exists independently of his/her physical surroundings and circumstances.  The choice to act upon your God given natural state of joy, playfulness and love is up to you on a daily basis.
Contemplate this: your choice to give your Spirit permission to guide your responses to life or not, will either light up or darken the world around you. I choose today to follow the lead of those children around the world who continue to laugh, love and play no matter what surrounds them…will you join me?

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