Entry 59 - Entry 65
Entry 59 - Lesson on Friends
8/7/19
Surround yourself with people who excite you. Who challenge you. Who help you grow. Who understand you. Who love every part of you even when you don't. Find those people and keep them close to you. Those are the people worth fighting for. The ones that will never give up on you, and you know that you will never give up on them. The friends that you know will still be in your life when you're crinkly and old and your hair is pinned back in a gray bun.
The friends you can call at 1am, and you know they'll pick up. The friends who know you like honey with your chicken nuggets. The friends you have flamboyant handshakes with. The friends that, even though they might not even be with you at the moment, just a memory with them makes you laugh. The friends who know how you need to be loved. Focus on them. Love on them. Be with them. Make sure they know how much you appreciate them because life's too short for anything less.
Entry 60 - Peculiar Realization
I don't understand it. I don't know if I ever will.
I feel like sometimes the universe moves, and things fall into place.
Sometimes naturally people fall out of your life and others naturally fall right in.
Entry 62 - Meant to Be
8/9/19
Entry 63 - Awe of it all
8/11/19
I cannot begin to fathom how amazing our Creator God is. These past few months, I've felt the hand of God so vibrantly in my life that I'm in constant awe of all that is going on in and around me. Inwardly, I've had a peace from God that no matter how hard it's gotten outside of me, the peace within has never left.
And my focus of trying to see the good in every situation, to see the beauty in every person, and to consciously look for ways to give back and help others have created a supercharged positive emotion fill me beyond what I've ever experienced before in my life.
Even when I hit valleys, I still experience them as peaks, and when I'm on a peak, I'm at a place where I don't want to do anything else but to love and serve those around me. God continues to amaze me day by day.
Entry 64 - Don’t Harden Your Heart
8/11/19
I know.... I know it's tempting to harden the heart. Maybe you want to love, but for some reason you can't. Or maybe you did love, and you had your heart broken so badly that you can't take your heart being broken again. Maybe that fear of love not working out makes you feel like the safest option is to harden your heart to love overall. Don't do it. Don't turn that heart of gold into a lifeless steel case. Don't let the outside corrupt the inside. Outside of you the bad things, good things, ugly things, amazing things will always happen, not always in that order but nonetheless, they'll happen.
Just because something is bad doesn't mean it has to take away your happiness. Just because your thoughts are telling you that you have it bad doesn't mean you have to believe that. You can have happiness. You'll be okay. Yeah, you might feel some type of way about the past or the future, but force yourself to focus on the now. Trust that everything will work out, even if it doesn't make sense. Let life do life and let you be you. Don't say you can't have this, or you can't be happy, or you can't love or any of that, just focus on living and being so entirely present that you give no ability for those false thoughts to try to suck the life out of you. Surrender your worries and focus on being. Just whatever you do, don't harden your heart.
Entry 65 - True Saving
8/12/19
In some denominations within Christianity, we are told to tell others, "pray this prayer, and you'll be saved." Don't get me wrong, I love and appreciate prayer very much, but I believe saving is much more than just that. I feel as if so many people use prayer as a means to an end rather than the purpose of being in the presence of God. It's as if prayer has been reduced to something sort of like a get out of jail for free card rather than as a way to access the divine, peaceful, presence of God.
I believe the true aim of our lives isn't just to get out of whatever we consider bad, but rather to become fully enlightened of who we truly are, and the unlimited, unending, eternal God, and the oneness we all share whether we believe it or not.
I've known people who've suffered with anxious, stressful, depressing, suicidal thoughts and so on. Some considered chronic and some that come and go. I've not only heard of it, I've experienced almost all of it at some point in my life. Just because one might call themselves a 'Christian' doesn't mean they live a life that one would consider "free" from the above destructive thinking of the mind.
I believe true saving is being saved from the false self and fully entering into the realization of your true self and all the glories it brings: Direct access to God, powerful intuition, purpose, meaning, playful direction of your consciousness and so much more. It's limitless, and its source is in the Unlimited, Almighty God.
Though our bodies decay, our true selves live on forever. We live because God is, and the good news is we have access to Him whenever and wherever. You don't have to have the Bible to access Him (Though it may certainly help). You don't need to wear the label of any group to access God. You don't even need to go to seminary for this true saving.
The key to enlightenment is simply being. It's dis-identifying with the stream of thoughts that come and go, and instead, identifying with the stillness of being in the now. Choosing to be fully aware, fully present, fully conscious of the exact moment you're in.
Don't just shoot to have a label of being saved and then stay in your negative situation. Find the enlightened self that has access to God within and be aware that you can be fully saved right here, right now. You can experience a bliss beyond words. You can experience an unending peace that surpasses all understanding.
You can live a life freed from the ego and become fully aware of who you really are. You don't have to wait until you die to experience it, you can choose this all right now. You're already enlightened, you just have to become aware of it.
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