Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
2 min readMay 13, 2023

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I see many synergies between this article and Jodie Helm's https://jodieshelm.medium.com/control-is-an-illusion-602df31b5833. Here is just one of the many related channeled passages in Jodie's piece:

"In many cases, the things that worry you never happen, and even if they do, you cannot stop them from happening. You spend so much time on worrying, planning, and preparing, you miss out on experiencing your life. Nothing is guaranteed except the moment by moment you are living."

Both your and her piece are about acceptance and living in the moment rather than fearing the future. I write often about acceptance and one of my epiphanies I had long ago was that acceptance does not mean accepting the permanence of the unacceptable--just practicing acceptance from moment to moment. I had a hard time articulating this further until last June in my https://medium.com/p/86877724cd6b (it appears that you have not read that one) I wrote:

"With respect to Patrick’s inclusion of 'perfect just as it is' and the Big Book passage’s 'situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment,' neither requires a belief in total predestination for one to feel impacted by those words. In fact, while I believe that soul contracts do provide for certain events with varying specificity, I believe free will, both our own and through many degrees of separation, shapes our lives. So, then how can I practice accepting that everything is as it is supposed to be? I’m actually formulating this thought as I write. Perhaps, moment by moment everything is as it is supposed to be because there is no other way for it to be because everything that caused the present moment is in the past and there is nothing I can do to change the past so therefore the only possibility for the present moment is for it to be just the way it is and since there are no other options, that is in some way the perfect occurrence."

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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