Friday, September 23, 2011

Do Not Fear

Do not fear having your heart broken. Do not fear having an empty stomach. Learn how to offer these things to the Lord. We are conditioned to seek happiness, to seek unfettered, unfurled bliss. Do not be fooled, do not expect fairy tale endings. Do not seek happiness for the happiness.

Remember life will contain pain, remember life will contain suffering. Prepare for both of these things. Reflect upon your experiences. Seek to understand your heart, mind, your soul. Be prepared to be surprised.

Time passes even as each generation searches for ways to remain youthful. With pride and poignancy create a life of hope, of love, of service to God. Free yourself from ideas of reciprocation, free yourself from ideas of anxiety.

Choose to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Choose charity, humility, and obedience to God. Choose mercy, compassion, and love.

Temptation and sin can create an intense urgency for action and response. Temptation and sin seek to create and exploit an intense vulnerability in our lives as we are asked to choose between good and bad, right and wrong, black and gray, white and gray. As Christians prayer can help lead us from the shades of sin and vice and temptation.

An awareness of God requires patience and wisdom. Love, universal, unconditional is needed.

Allow and encourage yourself to to perceive and accept God’s presence in your life, in your worldview.

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