Mary-Elizabeth’s Messages
THE ONLY GOAL YOU NEED

In her mind, Esther Hicks isn’t a channel, but a woman inspired:

She gets a feeling, she says, and puts it into words. I get this because that’s what happens to me when I write. I just hope that my words don’t sound as odd as Esther’s do sometimes.

Anyway…in my message about rethinking tough times, I wrote the following:

Tough times can help us drop mental chains.

We can’t cling to old ideas and create better outcomes.

Until my job almost crushed my soul, I held God at a distance. My late brother, a pastoral counselor, could see that I was struggling and was wise in offering help: he didn’t point out the sorry state of my spiritual life, but simply said that I might like kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism. Times were so tough I checked it out. And got hooked. And opened up to more ideas. And put new ideas into practice and got results I liked. And I haven’t looked back.

Among the things that I embraced was that Esther was a mouthpiece for Higher Intelligence called Abraham. Black folks be catchin’ the spirit and speakin’ in tongues, so why couldn’t Esther be doing the same in a language we can understand?

But the bigger reason is that The Teachings of Abraham feel right in my bones, like this:

“IF YOU HAD ONE GOAL, AND THAT WAS TO FEEL GOOD,
YOU WOULD NEVER AGAIN NEED TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD FROM ANYONE.
YOU WOULD LIVE SUCCESSFULLY AND HAPPILY
AND IN A WAY OF FULFILLING YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE EVER AFTER.”

Can I get an Amen?

To be clear:

The purpose of your life is joy.

It’s not to fight what you don’t want but to create what you do.

You can disagree and resist reality, or change reality by clarifying and creating your dreams.

Don’t listen if “they” call you selfish or a sellout:

By feeling good and living your dreams—even the non-humanitarian “self-centered” ones—you shift the world toward joy and help others to imagine more for their lives.

So there, haters.

And what are folks fighting for if not for some joy?

But here’s another truth from Abraham:

“There is no such thing as a happy ending to an unhappy journey.”

A prosperous life—a good-feeling life—is made moment by moment.

How are you spending yours?

Grinding away at impressive—yet oppressive—goals?

Living other people’s expectations?

Prioritizing joy?

We’ve created a world in which it takes some courage to unabashedly express joy (huh?!!!).

We’ve fallen for the myth of “noble struggle” and the lie that joyful people—especially from disenfranchised groups—aren’t smart or attentive because who could be joyful with so much oppression going on in the world, especially of one’s own people?

But here’s the good news in the words of founding father Thomas Paine:

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

To begin a world that we’d ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY LOVE to inhabit, prioritizing feeling good—JOY!—is the only goal we need.

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