Seven Deadly Sin Freedom (Originally Published 9/14/2022)
- Catherine Bott
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The holding on of any “deadly sin”: fear, greed, guilt, jealousy, hatred, anger, and resentment, is a deal breaker if one is seeking to “en-joy”, that is, to experience joy in their everyday living. In fact, I would suggest that life is nothing but a series of elaborate events Divinely staged and designed to aid and abet in each human’s spirit path of enlightenment to the ways of Soul. A recent experience finally culminated for me to cement this philosophy.
When Covid started and everything closed down in March 2020 it became apparent to me after two weeks of lockdown that my support team of twelve was slipping into a darkness that resembled depression. Since we had a business “necessary to sustain life,” I recalled all the team back to the office putting viral safety protocols in place.
I accidentally discovered that one of the team had been at a family function over the Memorial Day holiday that became compromised with Covid. I required Nancy get a negative test before she could return to work even though she did not have any symptoms.
Nancy tested positive for five weeks before she could return. That would have suited me just fine except she reminded me that state law required I pay her if the issue was Covid and not from her sick bank either. I did not apply for or receive any government funds during the Covid pandemic.
Here’s what my resentment rant looked like: Nancy illegally goes to a family function, contracts Covid and it cost ME (not her) five weeks of pay and her work didn’t get done. Nancy was with us another eighteen months before she went on to greener pastures. A smart and excellent worker, my resentment gladly sent her off. However, eight months later I was still unable to replace her. To make matters worse, the person who trained Nancy, the only other person who fully understood the processes of Nancy’s job was let go for various reasons literally leaving me helpless.
I finally called Nancy in desperation; resentment still lingering on my part. She wanted 100% more per hour than her previous salary and I relented. She came in three evenings a week to get what was needed done.
After three weeks, with me there most of the time, I began to see Nancy though the eyes of gratitude instead of resentment. After about six weeks, the “piles of problems that had developed” were dwindling and I could finally see some light at the end of the tunnel. Every time I worked with Nancy, I repeatedly thanked her for helping me out of the mess. After six weeks, I noticed that I no longer had ANY resentment towards Nancy at all. I saw that the whole Nancy-Covid-Five-Weeks-of-Pay-for-Nothing-Received was all divinely designed to help me take my resentful heart and morph or mature it in hopes that my “resentment” quotient would permanently decrease. Clearly, I saw that the entire circumstance from Memorial Day 2020 to Memorial Day 2022 was established that I may have more light in my heart (spirit) and have it abundantly. As the piles of problems cleaned up at the office, the “piles” of resentment on my emotional and mental mind-bodies also evaporated. I was amazed at how my grateful heart overruled any lingering resentment. I have a new, loving respect for Nancy as she so gallantly and artfully “cleaned” up the mess. All I did was apply gratitude – a magic ingredient to the overcoming of one of the seven deadly sins.
Here’s what I’m hoping you can take from my experience. Pick one of those seven deadly sins listed at the beginning of this blog that lies on your mind and heart. To be sure, if you are walking planet Earth you are infected with one or more of them. Think not? Get with a Conscious Change or Life Coach. A good coach can zero in on those deadly attributes in fifteen seconds. Replace your dark thoughts about the person or event that comes to mind with a sense of gratitude, in advance, for the life lesson that person’s presence has provided. Even draft a letter to them (not for mailing) expressing your gratitude for their “beingness” in your life. It may take six days, six months, six years or six lifetimes BUT…
What else do you have to do except move your human being self towards the light?
AFFIRMATION: I am free. I am free. Hallelujah I’m free!
P.S. After months of working hand in hand with Nancy, Nancy and I have developed a really sweet relationship which I will treasure forever. Who would have thought?
“I'm Catherine Wilcox, working to help others see that God is in all things, all the time, through conscious change and self-healing.”
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Catherine Wilcox is a Conscious Change Coach, Mentor, emotional intuitive and Writer. If you like what you read here, then you may enjoy one of her Published Books:
Sacred Space (COMING SOON)
Sacred Relationship (COMING SOON)
**Catherine’s latest Book, The New Stone Age, Crystal Data for the 21st Century, contains ten chapters of information designed to help the novice and intermediate crystologist obtain the secrets to working with crystals to help the four mind-bodies balance chaotic energy.







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