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Edwene Gaines, a great speaker and author of 4 Spiritual Principles of Prosperity, begins her speeches with, “I am a woman of power.” I love that. The first time I heard her say that, I thought, “Yeah! Me too!” Claiming our power is an essential step toward manifesting the life of your dreams. If you don’t believe you have the power to manifest, how are you going to do it?

You have the wisdom and guidance of your inner voice. You have the ability to choose your thoughts and actions.

The power to create what you want is within you, it is not outside of you. You do not need to ask outside forces, although it may help you to clarify your expectations. Just know that when you are saying things to something out side of yourself, you are saying it to an extension of yourself, just as you are an extension of God, God is an extension of you. It is all one Source. So when we say state your intentions and ask for what you want, you are declaring it to the Universe, which is part of you as you are part of it. In essence, you are declaring your intentions and expectations to the part of yourself that creates. Many times in your life you have been made to feel powerless and out of control, but that is never the case. You have power over your thoughts, beliefs, what is in your life, what is not in your life, every aspect of your experience. It is also your choice to be stuck in the past or to live in the moment. It is your choice to feel like a victim or feel like a manifester. So ask for what you want, believe it will appear, expect it in Divine Timing, and then continue on with your living. You may find, as our Melanie did this morning, that when you start to ask God for what you want, you begin to realize all the things you previously wanted and asked for are in your life now. That is the truth. Everything in your life now you asked for.

What about abuse?

Some people as adults believe they are not worthy, and so they put up with abuse in their relationships. But I know you are asking about children.

And random events like rape.

Nothing is random in our Universe. Everything is perfectly timed and coordinated. Changes can be made, but even those changes in direction are just as quickly organized and coordinated. So children who suffer abuse. Every person comes to your planet with a mission and set of goals. They have things they need to learn while in this experience, and sometimes they may have unpleasant experiences to reach the level of learning and experience they have decided in their lives. It is very intricately woven. Just as you experienced in your past life regression of being someone who raped. In this life, people you care deeply about have experienced rape, and you are seeing the flip side of the experience. Each person’s path is different, and the reasoning for each path is intricate, vaired, and detailed. We cannot possibly give one answer to fit all cases except to say that there are many journeys and many experiences. Each journey and experience helps guide someone along their path of spiritual development. Also, you cannot look at someone else’s experience and call it good or bad. You do not know how that experience plays out in the span of their existence. Things are not often as they appear, and often it is the perspective that makes all the difference.

I don’t know that that is a satisfactory answer for people who have experienced things that have been tragic and horrible to them.

To someone who is currently in the midst of pain and suffering, no answer is satisfactory.