http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92dXMQ3MyJU
Please play the video...it is a very sweet song.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about my life. I have lived a rather interesting life and somehow I have been able to walk through life with blessings pouring around me.
Most of my life has been about trying to fix myself. I have studied many books of wisdom, attended workshops from rebirthing to manifesting your heart's desires and done more spiritual retreats than I can count. I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church where everything was about black and white..good or bad...heaven or hell. I learned to LOVE GOD as well as FEAR GOD!
Since those years, I have struggled to find a place where I fit in with any organized group...I have a very hard time with hypocrites and people who live their lives in judgment of others. As I have grown spiritually and emotionally, I am always shocked when I find myself having to take a hard look at myself because I thought I should have been fixed by now. The first time I attended EST, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training, I was sure I would be fixed after those 2 week-ends of personal growth.
So here I sit here tonight...pondering what words to use in a speech for the American Cancer Society RELAY FOR LIFE this weekend and thinking about how Twitter has touched my life.
My message to people always is WE ARE NEVER GIVEN MORE THAN WE CAN HANDLE!
BE GRATEFUL FOR ALL YOU HAVE and FORGIVE THOSE WHO CAUSE YOU PAIN AND THOSE WHO YOU MAY HAVE CAUSED PAIN!
Pay attention as you walk on your path ... sometimes there are twists and turns, valleys and mountain tops, oceans and rivers and the moon and the stars as well as flowers blooming all around you.
Reach to lend a hand when someone is hurting and remind them that LOVE IS THE STRONGEST FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE! FEEL THE SUN and say thank you!
PEACE TO YOU
LOVE TO YOU
BLESSINGS TO YOU
Painting: Christine Haberstock
That which is infinite & eternal lead me to zen buddhism, in a very unstructured fashion!
ReplyDeleteOrganized groups make me itch down to my soul because I've rarely felt comfortable in my own skin, let alone in a group. As I grow older my core values are based on 'do no one harm" "be the change you want to see" and "We don't know the struggles of others so be kind". It's taken me a long time to feel comfortable with who I am, the good & the bad. Today, I can honestly say that the best thing I do is look into another's eyes and smile -- it brings a light to their eyes & gives them a very small spark of hope as someone else's smile did for me years ago.
ReplyDeleteYour words touched me. Thank you for letting me share.
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BTW, found your blog via blip where I'm fridayschild. Thanx again
I too found your blog via blip, where I am LRDavis. :)
ReplyDeleteI cringe as I see the damage that has been done in the name of God. As a part of the established church (an ordained minister) I try to reach out in non judgmental ways.
I hear the pain of each person who has suffered at the hands of hypocritical types. It's hard not to walk that path since we are all so broken. Like you noted about thinking you'd have fixed it by now. I, too, think I should have solved the issues.
We know what is right and don't do it. I've found myself doing that. The apostle Paul writes candidly about doing wrong when he knows it.
We limp along, striving to do better, feeling uplifted that it is grace that gains my access to Paradise. If my entrance to Paradise depended on my being perfect, I wouldn't make it. Instead, I can be grateful for the grace which allows me to fail over and over and still be accepted.
I'm in the process of writing a fantasy about a tween angel who's birth father is Lucifer. He struggles with his choices, especially as he is judged by others who expect him to follow in his father's footsteps.
I write updates about his adventures in my website and blog about The Chronicles of Luc and the Book of Days at http://lyndseyrosedavis.weebly.com
Keep writing, writer girl. Like the music, too. :)
Lyn
http://lyndseyrosedavis.weebly.com
Thanks for the love...it touches my heart when I write and connect with those whose hearts are likeminded. We are here to learn and grow and in doing that, the things that are not important simply fall away!
ReplyDeleteI will try to start blogging more...a lot of things are on my mind and it's time to write about it and see what I am thinking.
It takes me writing to get clarity at times...
MAY LOVE SURROUND YOU EVERYWHERE YOU GO!!!
Thanks for all the love and insight you share via twitter, Blip and this blog. I will be back! Love the pink!!
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Thank you for the lovely insight into a hard subject.
ReplyDeleteWe all need to be reminded of the reasons we are here, and
you did a great job of putting in perspective :)
I too have came to have come to this place we call earth to learn, I have found the words of light bring light. The angel of darkness comes as a light something to remember along the path. Words of darkness only shed darkness into the mind, destroying the beauty of it. A glimmer of illusion around a decaying world in which there is no escape until we as being realize why we have come here. some are still searching for that answer while it may have been in front of many of us.
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