In a video I watched, Esther Hicks/Abraham (whom Rev Kitty often acknowledges as one of her favorite teachers), was asked, “Why are we here?” She replied, “Very simply, we are here to experience contrast, adjust our preferences from those experiences, and manifest that into our life.”
Contrast is a gift she said, encouraging us to use our free will (another gift) and make choices (preferences).
It seems that gifts from the universe don’t always seem like gifts on the surface, and they don’t come with instructions either!
So what is contrast? The dictionary defines it as “the state of being strikingly different from something else”. Contrast is not defined as good or bad, (those are labels we put on things). In Spiritual teachings, I have heard it said many times that there is no good or bad, there just is. I’ve had to sit with that for a long time before it started to sink in.
In the book “Ask and It is Given, Learning to Manifest Your Desires” by Esther and Jerry Hicks, they speak of this process and state: “So from the variety or contrast, your own preferences or desires are born. And in the moment that your preference begins to exist, it begins to draw to itself, through the law of attraction, the essence of that which matches it—and it then begins an immediate expansion”. They go on to say, “the valuable contrast continues to provide the birthing of endless new desires and as each desire is born, Source responds to the desire. It is a never-ending, always flowing, pure, positive Energy expansion”. Wow, that truly sounds and feels amazing, doesn’t it! And there’s one more quote from this book that I’ll share….
“Your eternal nature is one of expansion—and in that expansion is the potential for unspeakable joy”.
So much to sit with and so much to look forward to as we learn to manifest our own versions of inner peace and joy in our lives.
