You are a son of God, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world.
… Yes but I have lots on at work and am not sure my boss will like it if I change how I am at work.
You are a son of God, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world.
… Yes but I am busy with the kids, I have school pick up and then to training, it is never ending and always something to do.
You are a son of God, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world.
… Yes but surely I get some time off just to ‘chill’ and switch off for a while.
You are a son of God, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world.
…Yes but I haven’t studied enough to really be of help to others.
You are a son of God, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world.
… Yes but I need to attend another Universal Medicine workshop before I am ready to truly be me.
I have lots on at work and am not sure if my boss will like it if I change how I am at work.
… Yes but you are a son of God. What can you bring to your colleagues, your boss and the customers you serve by showing who you truly are?
I am busy with the kids, I have school pick up and then to training, it is never ending and always something to do.
… Yes but you are a son of God. How will your children ever know who they are if you are not fully you when you pick them up and talk with them about life?
Surely I get some time off just to ‘chill’ and switch off for a while.
… Yes but you are a son of God. Why would someone want to have a break from the joy, love and vitality that comes from that connection?
But I haven’t studied enough to really be of help to others.
… Yes but you are a son of God. The world has lots of ‘smart people’ and it’s still a mess, your being love brings more than any degree.
I need to attend another Universal Medicine workshop before I am ready to truly be me.
… Yes but you are a son of God. Connect and you can run the workshop.
by Joel Levin
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
We keep ourselves so small when we don’t connect to the truth that we are a Son of God. Thank you Joel for such a simple yet powerful message in this blog.
It’s true, we have so many excuses but all we need is actually supplied because we are only vessels, and each vessel has equal access to expressing all that God is. As you say Joel all we need to do is stay connected to the right source and let the love through.
The excuses are not excusing us to not be who we are, even if we try hard.
I can feel how we try to buy ourselves time by coming up with as many yes-but’s as possible, but each time we come back to the same truth, and in fact we have not gone anywhere. It’s just God’s amazing genius how we have been allocated the concept of time. He knew we would be like this, didn’t He?
This really exposes the set up of life and how we constantly look forward to the next thing instead of looking within and bringing that out.
Eventually we will run out of “yes, but’s”. It is however important to see how many ‘but’s’ we put in the way of living who we are.
On first read I could relate to some of these excuses. Today, I could shake my head and say ‘not anymore’ however especially today I’ve had a whole bunch more of but’s come up. Regardless of what they are, they all feel stifling.
The fact the there is a ‘yes but’ shows there are two different energies, two different qualities we can choose to live by that are hugely contrasting and monumentally differing.
You have exhausted my ‘yes buts’ here Joel, I totally feel I am going for it and will remember this blog when a ‘yes but’ finds its way in again.
This is lovely Joel its so beautiful to read how the truth dissolves any excuses or doubt.
This is lovely Joel , living the light that belongs to all. What an opportunity .
We are the Sons of God and our responsibility is clear as to whether we are willing to live who we are or live who we are not, silenced and cloaked by the illusion of comfort that is found in the world of creation.
So True Joel, I have run out of excuses and it is time to stop and be part of the order of the universe and all the Love it shares.
No excuse in the world could ever fully justify choosing to not be love.
The spirit is a master at finding reasons and excuses not to reconnect to the full expression of the Soul.
Yes it sure is Victoria however never can it truly be the master, as we, our body and Soul, hold the upper hand in that our body will always reflect how uncomfortable it is to exist in disconnection to our Soul, to the oneness of all and God. We only need to be open to it’s ever-present guidance.
I love this Joel, the breaking down of all the excuses for the question is how long can we choose to deny who we truly are? And why would we want to live life being anything other than who we truly are?
No more time for excuses (if there ever was). It is now time for the Son of God to grow up and become a God.
This is interesting
Brilliant – the laugh-ability of the human mind verses the grand multi-dimensional beings we are.
No matter how many excuses I have, God’s message is the same.
That’s true – we can build our whole life on excuses but ultimately we can only ever at best temporarily evade God’s message, it remains no matter what.
A very timely blog to (re)-read. Connect, get out of your own way, and see what magic is there before you, for you and everyone you come across.
‘Yes but’ is really a ‘no’ even though we could say it is a little more open than a blatant ‘no’. When a ‘yes’ is truly claimed it is only a ‘Yes’ with a capital Y.
This blog is so timely at a point in my life where these ‘yes but’ appear and interfere. This is a great reflection of who I truly am – the son of god and I can and I’m making a difference in the world.
Ha ha touched, Joel, what a great, table-turning blog this is! There’s clearly no more room for ‘yes but’ excuses.
I love the turnaround here, we can do life and then God or God and then life and really why would we not do the second … it calls us to account and asks that we live all of who we are in each moment and we want to press pause, be it time-out or busyness for in fact both of them are a pause from the truth of who we are and why we’re here … to be the sons of God we are, and to live that everywhere in the world.
Yes, but is just our get out of jail free card from not accepting responsibility. But being in jail usually is for doing something irresponsible and carries a record that follows you for life, or is that what karma is?
I need to attend another Universal Medicine workshop before I am ready to truly be me
… Yes but you are a son of god. Connect and you can run the workshop.
This is the one that stopped me in my tracks and exposed all my ‘yes buts’.
If we are all Sons Of God, which I have no doubt about, then we have to start living as God, for anything less is holding everyone back.
Yes Joel, we have every excuse under the sun (or is that son!?) to not claim and live the truth of our origins… until such time as we do.
Joel I love what you share here, to appreciate and confirm we are all truly everything right here, right now all we need to do is to live and walk this truth.
Love it Joel. No excuses means no delay.
And from experience with no degree it can be very challenging to be steady and express truth and love to another whose belief is that their whole life is based on intelligence from the mind as it is this form of intelligence that will put food on the plate and fix all the problems in life.
Why do we find it so easy to forget who we truly are or put importance over ‘doing’ things rather than being? And as you have shared Joel ‘Why would someone want to have a break from the joy, love and vitality that comes from that connection?’ This is definitely worth pondering on. Thank you.
Yes but, I am a Son of God. I use to hesitate saying or writing that. I had the same experience with “I Love You” unless it was to my partner. Now, it’s great to feel every moment let alone actually expressing it.
It is true we make so many excuses as to why we can’t be a son of God, but we are already, so in a way the excuses are futile but we still make them. I know for me the line ” Yes but you are a son of god. Why would someone want to have a break from the joy, love and vitality that comes from that connection?” A great question and one I should remind myself of daily, Joy Love and Vitality, they make such a difference when lived every day.
We are a beautiful point of light. If we embrace it, we shine ever stronger. To embrace the yes is certainly a possibility. Thank you.
I love this blog Joel, I am exposed! All the excuses I make are answered right here.
Thank you Joel, it’s very relatable in the way you have presented this. How true “your being love brings more than any degree.” The world has so much going on in terms of education and skills but the big thing missing is the love. If we brought love to all we do, to all we met, and to ourselves – wow, what a world it would be.
That last one is specifically funny, as it indicates how much we have put outside of ourselves, that is all inside and that we can take out , instead investing further in the outside play. A beautiful example of anything in life – we are a master of truth, it is up to us when we take this mastership out.
How true it is that regardless of whatever we do or wherever we go the fact remains the same, that our connection to who we are in essence delivers a far greater realness, richness and loving quality to the lives we live and share. We are here to be who we truly are, the Sons of God, through which we say ‘yes’ to exploring how we can bring more of who we are to our everyday living.
Great expose of the battle within, the many lies we can chose to run with, only to delay our return to our true glory.
I agree Kim, it seems crazy that we want to delay reconnecting back to our true glory.
This reminds me that my excuses are not original, sometimes I trick myself into thinking that I am the only one that has a life THIS busy and that nobody else understands. I convince myself that my to do- list is worthy of me being unable to full fill my Godly Son duties, at least until I get my other duties running more smoothly. Ironically being in the knowingness that I am a Son of God is not a duty, it is a commitment to a quality that says, I am much more than a human being and there is no better time than now to live this. Ironically, living in this knowingness’ assists you to do all we have to do as a human being.
This is a great reminder of the infinite excuses and justifications we can bring to the simple choice to align to God’s plan on Earth. It’s only when we get ourselves out of the way that the magic can unfold.
We are all Sons of God, equally so and here to express that fact to return to who we truly are – no buts.
Ha… I bet you resisted leaving out all the ‘yes buts’ altogether here Joel.
We would do well do omit these ourselves, would we not… 😉
(and we may just make a difference…)
When we live in connection to ourselves and the bigger picture, there is no time for ‘down time’, no room for self. Living this way is actually more joyful because there’s more purpose and connection. When we make life about ourselves, we also reduce our enjoyment of it.
I love this. There is no room for a ‘yes but’. We can choose to be love and shine in any situation.
We are the Sons of God, everything outside of this truth is a distraction of our own creation, to not live the full light we are.
It is easy to make excuses but the truth is that we are all Sons of God and everything we need is already available us – love it Joel.
Life is set up in a way where we think we have to ‘get there’. That we are not yet complete and there is a striving for some end point that is never reached. I love what you share, that this is already all there and it is just about appreciating this and allowing it out- that we all can do this.
Thank you Joel, a great reminder that we are all the sons of God, and how many excuses we make to not live who we are, and yet when we do, we feel the greatest joy from within, so why wouldn’t we choose to live who we are.
SO true Joel, we have every excuse under the sun to justify why we cannot bring our FULL selves to life in every way… and we suffer every single day for the fact. Until the choice is made to do so, in full, no reservation, no matter what… we will not change the fact of those excuses and our justification of them.
We are Sons of God and true points of light and if we are on this plane of life it is because we have chosen to be here. In the same way we have chosen to be here, we have to choose whether we want to make a true difference in the world so we can go back home.
By bringing the intention of quality and integrity to every single detail of our day and lives every single one of us can make a difference in the world in every single word and movement we make.
I can recognise having had a few of those excuses running through my mind! I find it helps to be really honest with myself about just what it is I am thinking and to question where that thought has come from – is it there to truly help or just to hinder and create issues that don’t really exist…
Love it Joel, we are already everything, just choosing not to activate that everything in order to be it for others. We have every excuse under the sun not to exercise the choice to be all we are and then look to those who do make the choice as special or privileged ones… another convenient excuse of course.
So clear Joel, how we can put so many obstacles in the way and make lots of excuses for not being what we can not but be!
I can feel a strong sense of how small we can make ourselves just by the way we think! No need for and razors or knives, we can cut ourselves down just in our heads and hence the merry go round our mind runs when we are not confirming who we are in our hearts.
I agree Joshua and I really appreciated your comment. Our mind runs a dialogue and story in contradiction to what the truth is of ourselves in our body – that we have a wonderful and very beautiful essence. You would think that because the mind is part of the body it would be in harmony with it, yet the mind virtually assaults its whole self by acting as a part – and a separated part. This to me really highlights the difference between spirit and soul and the two differing sources of energy we can draw our intelligence from.
Love this playful dialogue on the ever growing list of excuses used to delay re-claiming who we are in truth with’Yes but’.
“You are a son of god, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world”.
Love this Joel – there are a few too many excuses here that I have heard reverberating around in my head! Living the Love we so naturally are everyday does not require anything others than; ‘Being’. It is interesting how all these excuses are about doing and bringing in complication when it is really so simple.
Waiting for the right moment before we can be all that we are? Time to drop the ‘yes buts.’ Why wait?
A simple question arises, which relates to there never being any ‘buts’, then I have to be a Son of God without question.
A Son of God is simply YOU. Nothing more and nothing less.
Simply true, it is when we fight the truth of our being the complications arise.
yes but is a way to undermine our responsibility of being the one, the son of god that shine our light in every place we bless with our presence.
I love how you show us how simple and practical it is to be a Son of God in our day to day lives.
We can try coming up with the countless number of justification as to why not, but the truth simply keeps presenting ‘You are’. This dialogue brilliantly exposes the futility of our mind’s reasoning, and the unwavering love that keeps holding us in.
Such a great blog highlighting the simplicity of simply casting aside the excuses and taking stock of what we actually have innately.
it makes sense that we have an intelligence far greater than what the world currently lives, and we do see glimpses of it in the great wisdom of some – but what if we were all capable equally of living that same wisdom – that we have the intelligence that comes from our inner heart, that our whole body knows, that holds the whole world in its embrace and delivers what is needs for all equally..
I love your blog Joel, there is a myriad of excuses we can use to delay our evolution as a whole. Even with the best of intentions we can get caught in the functionality of life and lose sight of the true purpose of our lives.
I keep returning to this blog lately but then my body loves to hear truth and love to receive healing! Thank-you Joel.
good point(s) Joel – with all the smart educated degreed PhD’d people in the world we have destructive lifestyles, war, misery, suicide and horrendous abuse at all levels. – so maybe there is a different kind of intelligence that we have forgotten how to use – but we do in fact know it is there otherwise we would not be so hurt by a world that chooses not to live it.
I love this line,”The world has lots of ‘smart people’ and it’s still a mess, your being love brings more than any degree.” Our true intelligence involves our whole body and never from the mind alone.
Amazing exposure here of the pictures we can have about what love and life should look like, which we get told by the world, but when we simply connect to our inner heart and the love that we all share, it is very simple and very easy and suddenly we realise that there is a way of life that is largely free of these pictures and ideals and beliefs.
Love this dialogue – the perfect reminder for this day that nothing comes close to the joy of living the expression of the light that I am.
It’s so easy to give power to the “yes buts” when we could also listen the the “yes but you are a Son of God a point of light that can make a true difference in the world”, and I feel it’s important to say that believing doesn’t work, there is true connection or not.
Just finished reading this blog again today, and I’m so done with those ‘yes buts’.
Love to read this blog today Joel, very timely, and I do recongise a seed of this: ‘I need to attend another Universal Medicine workshop before I am ready to truly be me’, and I love your reply: ‘ Yes but you are a son of god. Connect and you can run the workshop’.
Once again Joel, you turn the world on its head!
Brilliant! I think this needs printing and laminating on my desk to look at the moment I start to frown between my eyebrows.
Love it Joel, loved reading the statement “You are a Son of God, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world.” over and over again, great reminder.
Same here Matts, the repetition of those words of truth just seem to embed in my body.
What a Joy to read this, Joel. The excuses from the contracted man seem so tiny compared to the enormity that is constantly on offer to us from God. He has an answer for everything 😉
An amazing sharing Joel. So many times I have not considered that I had enough training or was not qualified in so many ways to be a Son of God. It is easy to make excuses and make ourselves small and insignificant but we are Sons of God and there is no University Degree attached to this!
Thank you Joel for another great blog highlighting all the excuses we can give to not live our true light, all the excuses are in the doing when how we truly are is in the being the son of God that we are.
We can never stop being a Son of God, a simple truth we cannot deny but boy o boy we do a lot to forget or to not see, playing our games instead of saying YES, thank you for the reflection of some of our many excuses.
Yes the games we play with ourselves does not change the inescapable truth that we are the Sons of God here to light the way through the lives we live. When we connect to our hearts we live in connection to this truth, to who we are. In separation to who we are, to this truth, we are led by the distractions of the mind that has us believing and creating excuses as to why we are not enough, having us living in a way that is less than all that we are truly capable of.
I was talking with a group of women recently about “yes – buts”, so it was so timely to return to your blog Joel. How often do we use the “yes-but” as a way to hold back, to stagnate and to not claim the wondrous beings that we are? Way too often! To me, every time I use the “yes-but” it is like I am pouring concrete into my boots, which physically (and literally) prevents me from moving forward in my life, and as each “but” is poured in it gets harder and harder to extract myself and to move forward; very uncomfortable and very destructive to me and my life, and eventually to those around me.
I really like these points that you make-
‘But I haven’t studied enough to really be of help to others.
… Yes but you are a son of god. The world has lots of ‘smart people’ and it’s still a mess, but you being love brings more than any degree’.
Beautifully exposing and so key for me to have opened this up today.
Overwhelm is a symptom of being drowned in self, take a look outside, connect and the “yes buts” disintegrate.
This list above could extend to fill a whole book …It is kind of humorous (in a not so funny way) how many beliefs we hold, or excuses we can use to avoid being who we naturally are. Do we want to take responsibility to live that level of love with ourselves and be all we can be, if it means we have to look at how we have set things up to suit us and not all of us.
Love this Joel. We ARE the change we want to see, but are we prepared to BE what we want to see? Ah simplicity.
I need to stick this on the wall. I am the son of God what else is there to be. Nothing, for that is what I am.
SO good! No other words needed.
I just love coming back to this blog, it is shared with so simplicity and playfulness and great messages. We can never stop and we are sons of God, all we need to do is just connect. Everything else can be sorted.
So many great points here, we are Son of God that can make a true difference in the world! We have become very good at making complicated lives.
Ah yes indeed Joel, that pesky old yes-but – no wonder so many of us have big ‘BUTS’! (pun intended)
Yes, there are no ‘buts’ Joe… only excuses to not live who we are in full. Thank you, another great blog!
Excuses, excuses, we all have a thousand excuses. . . crazy really when it is put it this way. Great point you have made here Joel.
This is awesome Joel and shows that excuses just delay us being our truly gorgeous light filled selves. Let’s share some light and love with others and see what happens.
Absolutely there is no need to delay any longer. This time I feel that the truth of being the Son of God is so real and it is only me who can make the choice for me to live in that light. As with everything, I am continually making that choice to the best of my ability. As with most things in life I am a slow learner and it is taking me time to fully claim who I am so I can get out the front and present.
The Yes But syndrome is common for us all, but as you say Joel, when we choose to connect with who we are, there is naught in our way.
Joel, a great reminder that there are no stop moments, no on/off switched, we are Sons of God always reflecting our light in every moment, in every movement, in every choice.
A great reminder Joel about always living in this and then what needs to be done comes from this.
So many ‘yes but’ moments – but remembering we are sons of God does away with them. Connect – and be love – so simple.
In reading your article Joel, I can feel the simplicity of living say ‘yes’ I am a Son of God, no buts in sight, just the simplicity of a life lived in accordance to who I am.
Love it Joel, not time for if and buts.
Haha, love it . . . you really nailed all the ‘Yes Buts’ and a few more in the bargain as one dare not pull in a .’Yes But’ after reading this. Thanks Joel.
Love it then, love it now. You are a Son of God Joel and a wordsmith of true wisdom.
I love reading this blog again. It shows how easy it is to make excuses to not live the full potential of who we are. We are all Sons of God, it is always our choice to choose to live in a way that honours and reflects who we are or not. The idea that we have to do something or be someone to achieve this or that simply is a way we distract ourselves of the truth of who we are. Letting go of this is huge, and it acts like a comfort blanket to make excuses to not live with truth but it causes is much pain and suffering yet often we resort back to our hold ways to simply hide away from taking responsibility. Your blog inspires us to let go of this and exposes what is really going on when we choose to make excuses to not evolve.
This blog exposes the twisting, wriggling and contortions we can go through when trying to avoid the responsibility we have to live our true selves in the world – no holding back and no excuses. Responsibility is not a burden – it simply means that when we are living true to ourselves, honouring the impulses from our body, not overriding them, we are living in a responsible way. So simple – no room for any ‘yes buts’.
Responsibility understood in this way is a joy….for One and for All. Lovely Lucy.
Yesterday I was giving myself a hard time for how others reacted to something I expressed. I needed to pull something up that had been allowed to run for a long time and the reaction from those who were responsible for the ill behaviour was huge. I then started to doubt myself a little because others stepped back when they saw the reaction from a few. I had thoughts of ‘just let it go and be like everyone else who lets it go’ but every fibre in my being knows this isn’t true. This is also a situation like this- I know it is loving to pull this up and not allow it to run as it effects many, when I go into just looking after myself I can let it go, when I go into doing what’s needed for the whole I can stand steady in this regardless of the reactions.
I love returning to this blog, it’s so great to remind me that simply no excuses will suffice today 🙂 thanks Joel.
“Yes but you are a son of god. Why would someone want to have a break from the joy, love and vitality that comes from that connection?” Absolutely why want a break from joy, love and vitality, this feeling is amazing and the more we connect the deeper the foundation, the normal it becomes and part of our everyday our every move. There is no need to switch off or have a break.
No buts, the time is now to live as a Son of God with every other Son of God in humanity.
I can relate to many of these answers and find I often put off until tomorrow instead of being all that I can be today.
I love it – it’s simply there if you stop thinking about it!
It is interesting that all our excuses have to do with the “have to does” running our lives. When there is nothing we need to do but just be, and the doing then takes on a whole new feel.
Yes, we all make excuses about why we cannot be our true selves. I find myself doing what I have to do and avoiding the stop which is so vital to my day. The doing is no more important than being with me.
I also find asking – what do I truly want from life? And do I truly want to evolve? – is a great counter to the ‘yes, but’ excuses and the ‘I’ll do that tomorrow’ thoughts that so easily infiltrate our lives and delay us living the truth of who we know we are.
I love reading this blog for its simplicity and wisdom, reading this it is obvious the game is up and there are no more excuses – it is time we take responsibility and live and claim the amazing fact that we are all equally the Sons of God.
So true Anna – Excuses are getting futile as deep inside we ‘know’ what is truth and what is not. It is time we took full responsibility with no more delay tactics.
I agree Vicky, to be seen for who you truly are is one of the most amazing feelings. So cool to not only be recognised unequivocally for who you are, but also that we can give that same gift to another person.
Very true Meg. When I choose to really see someone, inevitably they begin to show me even more of who they are, which is so very touching and inspiring all at the same time.
Yep – I absolutely agree, when you truly see someone for who they are and not simply their behaviours or choices, they do show you more of who they are. That’s super great to be reminded of – thank you 🙂
Joel you’ve pointed out just how crazy the constant excuses that we make are to not live the grace and divinity that we naturally are. And also how important it is not to get swept up by everything going on around us to the point we forget the whole purpose of life.
I love the last sentence, boy oh boy that is funny I love it! Gorgeous how there it is being thrown back at us with simple responsibility, as taking care of who we are is our one and only thing to do. We can make up as many excuses we want, as shown above, but it never changes the fact that we have a responsibility to know and life who we are (which is a son of God) all day long.
Exactly!!! We most certainly wouldn’t need all those planned holidays if we bothered to connect and live life as ourselves and not who we think others want us to be.
True. Excuses are killing us. I’m the queen of ‘Yes, but’. I can’t say it works for me.
Just brilliant Joel. Short sharp and straight to the point. Get yourself out of the way and then get on with it.
Fantastic blog Joel, we make so many excuses not to be who we truly are, it seems crazy to deny our true selves.
I can relate to playing this game – the game of pretending ‘not’ to be a Son of God… Whether or not we pretend, does not change the fact that we ‘are’ all Sons of God, equally divine, – and I’m now finding that ‘not’ playing the game of pretending is a lot more supportive and simpler than I ever expected it to be!
I would have to count myself in this group of ” Yes but”! So when will I be ready? Time to put my whole self in not just my toe.
Yes I can so relate to that feeling, which is a comfortable feeling really, but here it comes, even though we can come up with many excuses not to be us, it is simply most uncomfortable to not be us, therefore we have managed to totally trick ourselves and have a mind set that is just not real. As who we are should be the best choice ever, not the wrong one!
Love the last one Joel! This is so true now, many are presenting from their connection at Universal Medicine events, it is always so beautiful to see.
I have ridden this excuse for many years “…Yes but I haven’t studied enough to really be of help to others.” Love the truth here offered “…your being love brings more than any degree.” Knowing this then we can come from a place of ‘what’s needed to be studied’ instead of from a lack of, or less than, energy.
‘Yes but..’ I am a master of this and it can be surprising how many times it can crop up. Yet another tactic for delay as we are masters at finding a way not to just be all we are. This blog exposes though none of the excuses ever have a place. Thank you Joel 🙂
Pondering on ‘Yes, but’ what we are really saying is ‘Yes, but no’!! If there is a but there’s always a reservation and a holding back. We need to say a big, full YES, with no buts, or excuses or conditions.
Beautifully exposing our excuses not to be who we are and the lack of sense behind them.
Ah this is so great Joel, but, but, but…there’s no comfort in delay, i’m lacking responsibility when I make excuses – when I’m connected and in unity with the Divine there’s nowhere else I’d rather be so it doesn’t make sense to not have that in every area of my life.
Yes Shelley, and how powerful connecting and answering our excuses when they come up, like Joel has here.
Absolutely spot on Vicky. How often is it the case that we are wanting others to step up in some way but meanwhile we are holding ourselves back from walking life with all the divinity we contain inside of us! Our beauty and presence can move mountains when we are deeply connected to ourselves with acceptance and appreciation.
After a while of excuses, I feel they can have less power over me as I choose to be with me and feel that I am a son of god, which is the truth that I can’t deny. So all those excuses can be held for ages, but they will never stand the truth of who we are and what we can live.
We cannot deny the simplicity of being a Son of God but gosh we are trying very hard to not be the Son of God.
This blows all excuses out of the water, and it is true, there are no excuses to not be love and all that we are. I don’t always want to acknowledge that but can feel that there truly are no excuses..
When are we ready to be ourselves? It seems crazy that there is even a question.
Our purpose is everyone’s purpose.
And whats more Julia, if we all always lived the Universal Medicine workshops in our everyday life everyone else will get the workshops everyday too.
And with us all being all that we are anytime anywhere our societies as we know it today will be totally transformed and able to clear all the mess and dysfunction we have created.
And if we all actually lived the workshops in our everyday life everyone else will get the workshop too.
Thank you Joel – there is no excuse to take away from the fact that we are, each and every one of us, equal Sons of God.
There are an endless supply of ‘Yes but’s’ that we can tap into whenever we choose but they are all just a spirited way of denying to ourselves just how powerful and divine we actually are.
Yes Kerstin this is true responsibility not the bastardised version from my childhood that always felt heavy with expectation and ‘must get it right’.
Wow what heavy weather we make of embracing being a Son of God – time to choose responsibility and the ‘joy, love and vitality that comes from that connection’.
I feel like so many of us don’t really believe how amazing we are. Even when we say it, we are still to really embody our awesomeness. I am a son of God, right now, exactly where I am and this is the spot I can shine from.
Ingenious, Joel. You’ve picked out some of the various ways that Sons of God put themselves down, make themselves less, make excuses or deny who they are – and followed it by neatly turning them all one by one on their heads. Love how you counter the pull of wanting to find time to chill and switch off, by challenging what we’re truly missing when we do – shutting down our connection to joy, love and vitality. As you say, why would we choose to do that?
This is very deeply humbling Joel. All the silly questions we waste energy asking, instead of just accepting the light of God within us that never stops shining. We can come up with any array of excuses to not connect to it, for when we do that, there is no stopping us. Once again your connection to this light, and the wisdom it brings is shared here as an inspiration for all.
Good pont GD, a relentless collection of excuses that need to be replaced by only one choice – and in that choice is the true acceptance of our Divinity. All equal all the same, just requiring that we live as the Son of God.
So no more excuses! This is a timely reminder that excuses hold back the light that we are and therefore assists in polluting humanity. Accepting that we are all equal Sons of God is the light that is needed to bring us all back to one unified way.
The beauty of connecting to the truth. We can come up with every excuse in the book, but the fact remains, we are a all a Son of God and have much light to bring to humanity – we just have to choose love and stop goofing off.
These powerful questions that keep returning to the simplicity are exactly how I know God to speak. Thank you Joel, for this reminder to say yes simply to the truth that we know.
Can it really be this easy? My whole body says yes with no buts. There is so much more to life than work, study, groceries, cleaning and going through the motions (and emotions).
Life has certainly felt much lighter with the introduction of ‘what if’ as an antidote to the ‘buts’ and excuses. Like ‘What if I accepted that I am a Son of God?’ ‘What if I connected to my inner most?’ When my body opens up to the light that I am there is less room for the ‘buts’ to occupy. Thank you Joel.
shows clearly that there are no excuses, thank you for reminding and letting me feel where there are some changes possible in my life.
Thank you Joel. I can feel myself squirm in my seat as I read the truth in what you have written. I can feel how I have been a ‘yes but’ and hidden behind the excuses that I have created not to feel who I am and then live me to the best of my ability. Thank you for bringing this forward so that I can not only look at my own holding back, but assisting me in moving forward.
Loved re-reading this blog Joel, it reflects so beautifully the excuses we can make for not choosing to live all of who we are when in truth if we just trust, and live from our essence, never doubting who we are and what we bring, then we can potentially light up the world.
This is great Joel, no wiggling out of this one. Yes but…
Yes there are many excuses to not be who we truly are, why the fight, why the fear to be who we are? no more buts! Love this blog Joel.
Thank you for the blog Joel, you have shown me that we can say “yes but” as a excuse but also we can use the “yes but” to understand how our excuses are nothing more than excuses we make up.
How freeing to read and let go of the excuses and allow myself to be a Son of God and bring this amazing light and love that I am into the world!
You being a Son of God, a perfect point of light and writing these Awesome blogs. What else can I do than smile and know you are right. Thank you Joel, for this playfull way of reminding me of who I am.
Absolutely. A Son of God does not work part-time but full-time, and there is no perfection required just to live and honour who you are.
I love it Joel another superb blog that lifted me up and expanded me. There are no excuses, you cut through them all. “Why would someone want to have a break from the joy, love and vitality that comes from that connection?” Exactly!
Not much wiggle room here Joel, just enough to squirm at the truth in its simplicity.
Very true Deanne!
Absolutely no excuses, it’s time to quit delay and get on with it. Jump into life boots and all. We are fully equipped!
I love the excuses and how you turn them around Joel! Who would have thought that just being yourself would bring up so much resistance!
Joel – What an awesome, playful, but poignant blog- asking us all to stop delaying, clinging to our personal agendas and accept and embrace the truth that Yes, we are a Son of God – a point of light that can make a true difference in the world by our reflection.
Knowing that from true service we are fully supported, then what are we afraid of?
I love your blog Joel. I am a son of God and I can live that every second of the day, easily, naturally and simply.
I love the end bit.. Connect and you can run the workshop.
Yep super true Andrew. We have it all there waiting we just choose not to go there.
Thank you Joel, this blog was exactly what I needed today.
Life is not about being perfect or finding the perfect setting:
if I am with me, I am as perfect as can be no matter where I am.
Yes but….. No excuses anymore!
Joel, this is a great calling out of the myriad of excuses we use in order to cling desperately to our individualism and resist the pull to be all that we are – a son of God, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world. If we make it out to be a hard and arduous task then we will forever have every excuse in the book to not return to a way of being that is simple and joyful to express. When put this way, the question that needs to be asked is: what on earth are we so scared of?!
Thanks Liane, As I ponder your question, what’s interesting for me is that it just keeps bringing up all those excuses, the ‘yes, but’s’. So really there is nothing to be scared of as shown by the many who have lead the way and live that they are the Son of God.
” Yes but you are a son of god. Why would someone want to have a break from the joy, love and vitality that comes from that connection?”. Joel, I love this blog, especially the quote above. I guess most of us at times have used at least one of the excuses you have enumerated in the blog. I can certainly relate to some of them over the years since I have been endeavouring to live The Way of The Livingness. I can relate to the feeling of wanting a little time out when I am feeling tired from all the things I am doing. But it is not about the ‘doing’, it is really about the ‘being’ and just living as the beauty-full son of God that I am. The more and more I appreciate this and truly embody it, then it is amazing that space appears (and energy within me grows) and all that is required to be done is achieved. When one is in service, then the help is there.
Yes Beverley, this line is quite the pick and it exposes how the way the majority of people live does not even make sense. I know within myself how I look for ‘time to switch off’ without asking myself ‘where are you at?’ or ‘how is your connection to you right now?’ or even ‘what are you looking to escape from and not feel?’ While there is no doubting or faulting God’s patience it is the immensity of God’s love that affords him his name – I find it difficult to feel the difference between the two words God and Love – perhaps there is none?
Yes but, I am a son of god and I have started to stop and appreciate the light I bring to the world and how amazing I am. Why did I wait so long?
So true Rosie, why do I continue to wait? In fact what am I waiting for?
We do make excuses about not being all of who we are. Good thing that who we truly are is always within and we just have to let go of that which is not and re connect with that which truly is, something so profound. It is normal after a while
Cringing here too. No excuses left.
This is just fantastic, all possible excuses are a no go, we literally can not excuse ourselves for not being a son of God – we just are – whether we like it or not. I love your humour to this blog, as always. I’ve got no excuse or reason to hide: I am a son of God, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world. So are you!
Love that Danna “we literally can not excuse ourselves for not being a son of God – we just are – whether we like it or not.”
Beautifully playful Joel. It is no more simpler than the fact that we are Sons of God and all we will ever need is provided from us just living that. It can not be simpler or easier than that!
As the blog is direct and leaves no hiding place, so too is your comment Joshua.
Very beautifully said Jonathan, thank you.
Yes absolutely Joshua, all we need to do is accept the ease and simplicity which so exposes how complicated and hard we have made our everyday life. When all we need to do is be ourselves, Sons of God, and enjoy life.
This has to be an all time classic – as I read I cringe a little at the absolute clarity that is written here. All the lines I have certainly been an abuser of = a lot of Delay. Thanks Joel for making us so much more aware of our true responsibility.
Lee, I also cringed, and agree this is an absoluteI classic. If I consider my delay in the light of the responses in this blog, I have no answer, no come back, because there isn’t one. You cant argue with truth, it simply isn’t possible.
As a fellow cringer I feel like a light has come on. I am a Son if God NOW. not when I’ve been on a course, finished the washing up , cooked the meal that my body wants to eat, or done a Gentle Breath meditation. These are just some of the ways I can connect to my Divine Sonship. Thank you Joel, yet another amazing blog that cuts straight to the heart of who we are.
Isn’t it funny that we cringe at truth and love. Actually I smiled, at reading my own excuses (sans children – nevertheless there are plenty of stories to fill that void) and especially at this “The world has lots of ‘smart people’ and it’s still a mess”.
When we see the mess of our world, and I mean really see it – all of the suffering and the pain in its awfulness – the “yes but’s” fade to dust. Its time to get on with it Son’s of God.
Thank you Rachel for pointing out the awfulness and really seeing it and that the only way of moving through this not saving the world, but being ourselves in full, the love we are.
Awesome, you nailed it with this simple blog. I am the Son of God, there’s work to do and serious Joy if I choose to be all that I am. To choose otherwise is an excuse and delay.
Loved it Joel, stop all the small talk, all the excuses, and feel how incredibly big we are. We are the Son of God, is there anything else to consider?
Playful yet poignant. We can make a difference – so why do we allow ourselves to make excuses from being all we are and bringing all the power and beauty we can offer? There are really are no excuses, just mind manipulations of delay.
As all the ‘reasons’ stack up I can feel absolutely that right here right now there are no excuses or apologies needed just to go for it and embrace the fact that I am indeed a son of God and a point of light on this earth. Thank you Joel for highlighting this true difference.
Loved it Joel. There is always one more excuse before living the ‘Son of God’ we all are. And that is all they are excuses – time to re-connect because we have all been there before and simply live this love.
“Yes, but…” means “no”. Why don’t we talk clearly?
Great article, Joel!
Oh those excuses…..thank you Joel, your blog made me laugh, especially the end, so funny.
This just goes to show that any excuse does not hide us from the fact that we are a Son of God.
Hello son of god Joel . . . yes it is true we have to shine otherwise everything stays the same and that is in a way a bit boring now . . . Thanks for your joyful and truthful words – Ester equal son of god.
There are always excuses and distractions that we use to avoid taking responsibility for being the Son of God that we are, and sharing that with the world in all that we do.
It’s like this starts as an entry point we’re all the cracks are revealed for us to say no I cant… With the light at the end of tunnel knowing that it’s very possible
Love the truth, simplicity and common sense of what you present, it is time we leave the excuses behind and claim the glory of the light and love we are in the world. It’s time to live the true you!
Thank you Joel for the directness, clarity and playfulness of all you’ve written. It doesn’t matter what excuses we have used, or use to not shine, or how far we try to run away, I have found I always come back to the same point no matter how wayward I have strayed – I am a Son of God, with much to bring and this does, and will not ever change.
gorgeous Joel and yes let’s look at -and get rid of – any excuse we have that stops us from living in the this glory and being a very visible and bright point of light in the world.
Our repeated cycle of excuses stops not the everlasting cycle of the fact that we are points of light that can make a difference.
Yes I am an equal son of God and when I connect to this truth within me, this point of light that I am is brilliantly reflected in all that I do.
I love the humour you bring to your beautifully true blogs Joel. Connect and you can run the workshop! Connection is the key, and we can never stop deepening our connection to ourselves and then outwardly with everyone else. A great reminder, thank you.
Awesome Joel, and so very revealing as I could relate to so many of the “Yes Buts”! And I laughed out loud at the last one; “Yes but you are a son of god. Connect and you can run the workshop.” – why did I laugh? – because it’s so true!
It is a very delicate art to write in such a way that all of our stories and excuses are very gracefully exposed, with a touch of humour, but there can be no denying of the fact. There is not a millimetre of wriggle-room in this blog to get away from the fact that we will choose anything other than the light, fire and power we innately are.
Your comment nailed it for me Rachael, reading I had no room to move but only space to feel the magnificence of me.
Joel so much joy and playfulness in your blogs – at times I have said similar things. Time has come to let go of the ‘yes -but’ and to embrace being the son of God. Thank you for the awesome reminder.
I really like the joyful and simple way this is written. Yes, but can I be a son of God. Yes, because I am a son of God.
Yes but, is the easiest way to make anything simple – instantly complicated and we all don’t like to do anything complicated now do we, no matter how simple it was before we made complicated, because it was to simple… what was your question?
Love the lighthearted way you point out how ridiculous are the delay and excuses Joel, when we are a son of God it doesn’t make any sense not to be that 24/7.
Beautifully said Joel, I was just having the same conversation with myself. Love your simplicity and down to earth playfulness.
Oh so many ‘Yes but’s’ that we can come with – there really is no excuse.
There is really no excuse because we cannot escape the fact we all are Sons of God, how much I choose to wiggle and struggle I am this. You made it very clear there is no ‘Yes but” .
Great article, a very playful way of debasing all our excuses.
Thank you for outing all the excuses Joel.
We always have an excuse at hand as to why we cannot shine, but as you playfully share Joel, there is NO excuse.
So playfully put Joel. I am the queen of ‘yes, but….’ I’m seeing more and more that it’s not about completing my list of things to do, it’s about being the love that I am first and claiming it in full, and bringing all of myself to all that I do.
I know these excuses very well Joel, like I have no time to be a Son of God now… The trick is life will always be busy and there will always be something to do. But we do have the choice how we will live, knowing we are a Son of God and all we can bring or not.
This is awesome Joel- I love the *BAM* at the end. And I love your way of writing in blogs and being playful in showing what is true.
Said loud and clear and then all the excuses come out. We need to not have any more excuses but be the Love we all truly are.
An amazing article Joel. Oops, I have made some of those excuses but it can all change by the choice to claim who I truly am – a Son of God!
Brilliant, simply brilliant, even if I did squirm, a lot.
This so amazingly dismisses all the excuses we come up with when trying to explain why it is we can not be a truly claimed and fully expressing son of God. It is simple , if we do not bring all of who we are the whole world misses out. We are the son of God so lets stop pretending we can’t be what we in fact are.
Thanks Joel for sharing you writing , I am a son of God I cant change that even if I try, to be who I am is all that I am to be.
It is so true I don’t know whether to laugh, groan or cry!
All of the above Nicola. 🙂
Thank you Joel. I love your blogs. You bring an openness and honesty to your writing that is truly inspiring and exposing at the same time. There is always an excuse to be less than who we truly are.
Ha! Love it Joel – purely playful prose that leaves me wondering; if we are each the Son of God, ‘a point of light that can make a true difference in the world’, then why on Earth have most of us installed dimmer switches?!
Indeed!!! Why the dimmer switch? Why are we more comfortable being less than our true and full self?
“But what if people think my light is too bright?”
Yes, but we are all the Sons of God and our light lights the way for others to see that they are the same Son of our one Father.
Thanks Liane, great point – we have a choice here, we can turn them up (the dimmer switch) and shine our light brightly or we tune them down, it is as simple as this.
So beautifully simple Joel. Why do we try to be anything else?
Thanks dear Joel; details the excuses we choose to use when we are not being that responsibility we can be.
You are so right Ben. We can use so many excuses, to avoid standing up and saying this is ME.
So true; instead of taking responsibility and living this, all the excuses come tumbling out of why we can’t! It has made me stop and feel what really goes on in my life, and why do I not take full responsibility of my life and how I live.
I love the way you wrote this, so playful but spot-on! Thank you Joel for this great blog.
Reminders not the only thing worth remembering, but living.
Joel I loved reading this blog – simple yet so true – all the excuses we make to stop being the fullness of who we truly are.
Beautiful blog to end my day, this Son of God is going to sleep with a smile.
Brilliant! I can relate to a few of those. Exposing the way we make excuses to delay ourselves from bringing all that we can offer the world.
No buts about it – I am a Son of God & that is enough!
so true Helen, we are enough as we are and there is no need to try just surrender
Thank you Joel, Helen and Carolien, I agree, we are all equally the sons of God when we choose to connect to our Soul!
Absolutely. We can’t try to be something we already are.
“I am a son of God, a point of light that can make a true difference in the world”. I can say this to myself and to my children every day we wake up, every day we lay ourselves to sleep.
Love the clarity and playfulness in your expression Joel. We are sons of God and here to be who we truly are.
I Love this blog Joel…your expression is such a gift. Thank you for exposing the excuses we use to stop us from choosing to live who we truly are.
A real fun blog to read, but actually very serious, exposing and a truthful story you have written without judgement and very playful. A Master piece!
Ah, exactly what I needed to read. A classic. Thank you, Joel.
You go for it. I love your blogs Joel! The yes but dialectics show us the extent to which we love the doing but we have trouble to embrace the being side of the equation, the reason being that in the doing you can stop doing at any time, but in the being you cannot.