Deron Beal Founder of Freecycle~September 7, 2007

Deron Beal

www.freecycle.org

Deron is the Executive Director and Founder of the Freecycle Network, a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Freecycle Network is a web community. It enables people to find others in their local community to give things to that they would otherwise end up throwing away or taking to the landfill. “One Man’s Trash is another Man’s Treasure.”

Freecycle Mission Statement is ~~“To build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.”

Freecycle Event Right Here In Fort Greene Brooklyn, My neck of the Woods!!!

God Comes Through Every Single Time –Part 1

This is a re-post of something I wrote earlier this year…Since then alot has changed but I wanted to place it here as well. I will post things I’ve written before…

God Comes Through Every Single Time –Part 1

So here is something I am noticiing about me these days. I am not rushing to get anywhere any more. I am enjoying my journey, I mean really enjoying it. Sure Sure I’ve got quite a bit of desires percolating that have not come into physical form, quite a bit of them. The difference is I no longer feel bad that they haven’t manifested in physical form Yet. But there are alot of my desires that have really expanded into thought forms that are way beyond anything I ever allowed myself to think or ponder before. That is amazing. I mean they have really really grown into more…it’s interesting how much fuller they’ve become….Wow!!!

It’s wild to me…okay take for example my apartment…When I first started to use LOA deliberately and found out about what guidance my emotions were telling me…I was so beating the drum of what is, the reality I was currently living. All I wanted or thought I could have was all based on very small limited thoughts and feelings of fear and unworthiness. I had matched that perfectly. I figured well let me just think good thoughts about an apartment and think good thoughts about money and somehow things would change. I had very limited thoughts that is for sure. Oh I was thinking about a big beautiful apartment here in NYC which did make me feel good and I was thinking about having more money which also made me feel good but immediately after that I would look at where I was standing in my own physical shoes and well not feel good again. That was sort of making me nutz. Where was all my stuff I was thinking about? I cut out pictures, created vision boards…blah blah blah…but still nothing seemed to be changing for me. I was so beating the drum of what was, what is and I was beating mysef up too, telling myself that I wasn’t doing it right and comparing myself to this one or that one.

See I was mostly an Action oriented person…intellectually I just wanted to know what right Action to take. If the Universe could tell me what action to take maybe I could get this thing right and feel good in the process. So I approached the emotional journey as I approached just about everything in my life through action. When you approach everything through Action there really isn’t enough Action you can take to make a really big difference. Why? Because most of the majority of my actions taken were motivated actions based on FEAR. FEAR that if I don’t do XYZ now well then ABC is not going to happen…

If I don’t feel Joy right now well then I won’t have ABC or D and I want ABC and D to happen right now. Okay let me feel good period and then this thing I want to happen will happen. Okay let me pivot right now and change my thoughts towards what I want and think about it really hard. Again for a while there I was making myself nuts. I didn’t see any results and that’s what I wanted. RESULTS!! I wanted to prove the RESULTS more than I wanted to feel good.

I figured I was asking and I was praying and that was the thing. I was asking so much I wore myself out.

Here’s the thing I finally got and continue to get. I am always asking, every single moment of every single day I am alive and awake I am asking. Asking for what? A better life. Everytime I have an experience I don’t like or doesn’t feel good, I am asking for something I do like, do want to experience, do want to feel good about. Hmmmmm If I am always going to have a desire about something more, then maybe I might give some attention to what my vibration, my thoughts and feelings about my desires are. Maybe just maybe I could look at what my beliefs are about my life, about my desires and my experiences. Maybe I could look at this all quite differently.