In the Sondheim song from Merrily We Roll Along, the lyric says: “Something is stirring, shifting ground. It’s just begun.” The words continue: “Edges are blurring all around, and yesterday is done.”

I can’t think of better words to describe what I’m feeling right now about what is happening in the United States. Without getting political—if that’s even possible—I’ll simply say: I feel as though I’m on shifting ground.

This brings me to a quote from the Bible, Matthew 7:24–27 (NRSV):
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.”

Do you have a rock upon which you’ve built your life? Or are you living on shifting sand? It’s time to make that decision now. What is your rock—the foundation you can rely on when the conditional, outside world is shaken? It cannot be people or things. It must be something deeper.

Many people are worried about many things right now. I just received a note from someone frantic, saying he felt like everything and everyone was being challenged. That’s a big statement, yet it does hold some truth. I encounter many people in my day who are stressed and unsettled. What about you? Are you being challenged—and if so, how?

In Dr. Patrick’s inner child work, when addressing trauma from the past, he uses the strategy of “Reframe, Reclaim, and Rename.” I believe that if we are to move through the shift happening on this planet, these three steps are essential. We can either be swallowed up by fear and stress over what seems uncontrollable, or we can courageously reframe the whole experience and walk through it with new eyes.

What if—just what if—the breakdown of systems we once depended upon is actually opening us to create a whole new world? And if so, the only way this new world can be created in love is through people who remember their true identity.

I’ve been exploring the work of Dolores Cannon and her prophecies about these times. She speaks of three rooms we can choose from:

1. The first room is continued chaos and fear—living in the 3D, struggling for 3D solutions. It’s not right or wrong; it simply is. We can keep creating doomsday scenarios until it becomes our way of life, until we move on to another plane of existence.
2. The second room leads to a more paradistical  life in the New Earth. Here, peace, joy, and ease are the norm. We arrive at this choice after doing the inner work—self-examination and forgiveness. By passing through fear, we have the consciousness to live here.
3. The third room, the one that speaks most deeply to me, is for those who choose to walk in both worlds—to remain in 3D but embody 5D consciousness. We stay here to serve as beacons of light and guides to those trying to overcome fear. We can do this because we’ve been to the other side and know how to assist—without taking away another person’s growth.

These doors are rooms of consciousness. Thinking about them offers us a way to reframe what is happening now, shifting from fear consciousness to alignment with truth.

The conditional world is temporary—it is always shifting and changing. It makes sense that things cannot remain the same in a world where so many cling to power or fight to be right. Yet we do not have to play that game. We are always at choice. A new earth is being formed. We can help create it, we can rest and enjoy it, or we can remain in fear.

“Something is stirring, shifting ground, it’s just begun. Edges are blurring all around, and yesterday is done…”

We cannot go back. We can only go forward—reframing the situation, reclaiming our place, and renaming it as good. There is one Power, one Energy in the Universe. It is Good. It is life-giving. It allows free will and choice. The Laws of the Universe are exact: as we think, so it is—now more than ever.

Haven’t you noticed how quickly things manifest? How thoughts become things almost instantaneously?

The principles of quantum science, once hidden but now widely known, can support us in staying firm, steady, and present. I rely every day on the principle of superposition: the truth that a field of energy holds all possibilities at once. Only when we choose to focus, to “catch” it, does it become our lived reality.

Why does this matter now? Because of the three rooms. We get to choose what we will be, where we will stand, and how we will live. It is up to us—not the outer conditions. No matter what is happening, no one can take away our freedom to choose.

Viktor Frankl said it best: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

And Sondheim reminds us again: “Feel the flow, hear what’s happening. We’re what’s happening. Don’t you know? We’re the movers. We’re the shapers. We’re the names in tomorrow’s papers. Time for us now to show them.”

This is not a time to hide our heads in the sand, nor a time for fear. It is time to choose—to stand for love, release what no longer serves us, and let the Spirit within move our lives.

 Rev. Dr. Rita, Author, Founding Spiritual Director CSL Kaua’i, Founder of the Red Dress Movement