When we experience guilt, we are reminiscing on how we could
have lived our lives in a better way. We dwell on the things
we should have said, how we could have handled a situation,
how we could have done things much differently. Always, when
we feel guilty we are dwelling on how we should have done things
in a much better way. When we feel guilty, we project this guilt
into the future. We feel guilty about what we should be accomplishing,
how we should be working harder, how we should have more patience,
more knowledge, more expertise. We should anticipate how to be doing 
everything better.

The belief that we should know how to do things better or differently
is the core of guilt. Without the belief that we must come up
with the "better", guilt would be impossible.

Let us put it this way: when we are in charge of doing something
better, we miss experiencing God's Best.  In effect we are saying,
"I must be the source of the best in my life." Our inability to be
the source, creates guilt. 

What if we could consider that God is the Source of the Best in each
situation? What if we could invite the real Source to use anything
for healing? When we attempt be the source of something better, or
think we must know how to do something better, we only end up
generating guilt.

What is the solution to guilt? The solution is to admit "It feels
like I could have handled that situation better, in a much more
loving or patient way. I'd like to invite in God's best so another
way, so the best way may enter. I'd like to invite God to use whatever
has happened so the most healing can occur."

Often we hang on to guilt as a reminder to do it better next time, to
remind ourselves that we are still responsible to make things better,
to be the continued source of something better. 

We are not the Source of God's Best. We can invite in God's Best to
be the solution. We can invite in another way so the very best and the
most healing response can occur. Guilt only paralyzes us and keeps
us from experiencing the best in all areas of our lives. When we
hang onto guilt, we cannot be in the Now, where all solutions begin.
We keep ourselves in past recriminations, and future anticipations and
thus avoid the possibility of choosing healthy choices in the present
moment.

We invite you to give up the belief that you should have known better
and that you must know better, so the very best may be present to support
you and the ones you love. When we invite in God's Best, we can indeed
experience another more loving solution.

For your consideration,

 -- The Guides