Be True to Yourself!

Have you ever traveled down a road where you thought you knew it well only to find yourself lost?  Have you ever trusted so much to find that the trust you gave was never taken seriously and all your convictions seemed tested beyond the threshold of your personal limits?  Have you ever wondered why God would want to take you to a realm you never wanted?  Have you ever questioned your worth based upon the personal acceptance of others?

Have you ever asked God why?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then you have been engaged in the human experience to feel heartbreak and pain.  Of course, the level of anguish and despair will vary dependent upon the depth of our individual feelings and the capability of our hearts to really love.

Today, I write to announce to you, the one who truly has custody of your heart is you!

It is December 31^st, the after Christmas sales are winding down, store decorations replaced by all things Valentines Day.  For those experiencing heartbreak what an emotional jump, as tonight we long to kiss that special person on the cusp of the midnight hour and tomorrow January 1^st seems so empty compared to the anticipation leading to the turning of the calendar.  We feel older and experience unexplainable internal feelings of vacancy within our heart. This year brings with it a blank slate and maybe for this reason the New Year seems to carry with it an icy chill.  But wait!  Does it really have to be this way?  Instead with a full list of goals and daring do, maybe the turning of calendar can bring with it a new white hot heat of anticipation warming our souls, melting our pain, dissipating our memories and stirring up our imaginations.  We decide to live rather than to die, there is no reason for personal senescence, we must choose to detach ourselves from despair and choose happiness and life.

We cannot help the bad decisions of others, we must choose to live brilliantly!

Brilliant living is to choose to soar high above in the blue skies, to resolve to live free with great expectations.  It is to choose to know who you are, the best of who you are and to never let anyone stymie your plans, feelings or the acknowledgment of your capabilities.  Brilliant living is to choose to make new friends, to express the feelings of your inner soul and blanket your special friends with the incredible warmth of your love and to be your most expressive self.  Living a reserved life is for the timid, living a brilliant life is for the bold!  And today, of all days, you choose to be brilliant and bold!  Kiss everyone, why not!  Who says you can’t?  Only the foolish choose to live in a blind stupor of self imposed social morays that limit rather than expand our personalities. 

This is a good year to grow and become who you want to be by deciding to be that person now.  There is no reason to create a gap from where you think you are compared to where you want to be.  There is no reason to lie to yourself and feel you are unable to reach for what you desire.  You are capable, full of incredible talents and abilities, live an uncommon life, create personal momentum, and live an exciting life where of all people - you cheer yourself from one victory to another and no one is capable of stopping you!       
  

Whatever you want, whatever you desire is within the realm of possibilities. What do you seek in your life?  Peace of Mind, Health, Wealth, Love, Confidence, Happiness… It is all there awaiting you for your taking.  Choose to live freer, free from limiting thoughts, release yourself from the pain of the past and discover the newer improved higher version of you.  You are beautiful, wonderful, one of God’s greatest creations and He is so pleased.  When God sees you He smiles, and when you look in the mirror… you should too!

Today is a good day to pray!  Pray with shouts of joy, thanksgiving and praise.  Pray for release from hurt and pain, pray for personal strength, pray for others and ask Him to fill their lives with joy, peace and love.  Ask God to supply you with an extra measure of joy, peace, love, compassion, kindness, gentleness, humility, self-control and patience, and He will.  Ask God to bless your enemies, bless your friends, co-workers and family.  Ask Him to place His hand upon you and lead you and guide you to a new destiny, your personal promised land filled with milk and honey.  And rather than wander aimlessly, know you have already arrived.  Close your eyes engaging your imagination and feel the love of God invading your soul driving out all fear filling you with His love and the confidence that comes with it.

Today is your day, today is your life, the voice of your ancestors echo live now, persevere, live brilliantly, live boldly, love with total abandonment, be true to your soul.  This is your day, make yourself proud, do not fear, live with faith and be yourself.  If you are kind, sensitive and loving, be that way…. Live with passion, choose to grow, the only limit in your life is truly yourself.  Be everything God created you to be!    

Intimacy

What is it we all long for in our lives?  It is to be truly understood by another, truly loved, embraced, cared for no matter our condition, lot in life, challenges, or spiritual quandary in which we find ourselves engaged.  I believe in love, mutual understanding, caring beyond end, abandoning oneself , to be selfless , totally giving yourself to another and connecting spiritually on a soulful level.  I believe in acknowledging the sensitivity of your loved one’s heart, to be unafraid to share your vulnerabilities, to know it is okay to say you’re sorry and start anew.  Intimacy is embracing your friend’s soul by allowing them to see yours and to realize it is okay to share.

Intimacy is to reveal yourself, to live unafraid discovering a higher version of who you are and discovering the virtues of those you embrace.

   

Intimacy with God is very much the same.  He seeks to have prolonged times of communion with us, and even more so He seeks His presence to spill over throughout our days as a soulful connection into our hearts and minds.  If you struggle with a certain area in your life and need to know His thoughts upon the matter, find a scripture befitting the need, embrace His word and seek His authority. Suddenly your desires will change, and you will find yourself in a new place of communion, seeking God first, longing for Him and needing Him in a way when the remainder of the world is not enough.

We embrace our intimacy with Him through prayers.  He wants to hear our screams just as He listened to David.   He is always listening, always caring, always loving.  We may not always momentarily understand the consequences of our sin or the impact we have upon others or they us.  But He knows.  He seeks our praise, adoration, longs for our confessions, loves to hear how thankful we are for His grace and the gifts He bestows, and of course He daily listens to our needs, wants and desires.

Sometimes we scream out when it just seems He is not even listening, and in our anguish we scream and scream, and finally breakdown and we cry.  We cry as we selfishly acknowledge He is here, present in this very moment.  Jesus cares, He loves, He has us in His arms and He knows.   

Intimacy is to be unafraid to share God’s word and pray with your friend.  It is okay to realize we are here in this moment to truly love one another.  The world’s view is so skewed, we all act so timid, so sheepishly when it comes to recognizing we are to love each other.  It is absolutely not a sin to say to your friend, “I love you!”  Who are the fools in the world?  The fools in the world are those afraid to reveal themselves, closed up in private world, hiding themselves behind a veil of protection for the sake of self-preservation.  They fail to recognize in their private garden without true intimacy there is no real sunshine or cool rain and they deprive themselves of bounties of love.  These are the same who do not know truly how to forgive and in their lacking, they endlessly run from one to another.  If they would just seek help, if they would acknowledge it is okay to be helped then maybe with great adulation, their veils will be dropped and they can finally really live and really love.  And as the warmth of a new sun shines down upon them, maybe discover….  you.  And finally know without question or need of further evidence how real you truly are.  And in this knowledge discover not so much you were right, but how much you truly love.  Real intimacy is not to question. Real intimacy is to connect and love endlessly.  

Sustaining Love

Tonight, I am writing as the professor and the student.  If you were to know me, you know I love to learn about a broad variety of subjects.  And this evening, the topic is relationships.  I hope this will be as helpful to you as it will be to me as I learn much through introspection.

My ‘ole broken heart…. I do not always understand why those we love in our life sometimes believe the grass is greener somewhere else.  They think we are the ones who need all the work while they fail to look in the mirror and really contemplate who they are.  What makes a good relationship?  You and I both know there are 50,000+ books written on this subject, but seriously, what makes for a good relationship between a man and woman.  Obviously, I am no Dr. Phil and nor do I pretend to be an expert as I have yet to be able to sustain a long term committed relationship with a woman.  However, through trial and error, much reading, observation and listening to successful couples, I have learned a few things.

I think what makes a good relationship is two committed people who know how to first of all, always forgive.  If you cannot forgive, you cannot love.  I also personally believe both partners should be themselves, and be committed to individual personal growth, as well as growing together in a formal setting where there are other committed people who encourage them to be successful in their relationship. This setting is usually in a religious based environment. Recently, I was listening to Deepak Chopra, and he said there are several stages of relationships.  When people first get together there is the attraction, excitement of knowing someone new, finding similarities and traits you want causing you to hang more around them.  Then the second stage sets in where there is second attention, to always know what the other person is going to do and what they are thinking and feeling, you appreciate the other person, listen with the eyes of mind, eyes of the soul and flesh and feel love through caring.  The third stage is communion, where your soul connects with another soul based on equality, empathy, non-judgment, integrity and telling the truth. Then there is the possibility of intimacy where you totally lose your ego in that relationship, you feel defenseless, nothing to defend, no point of view to defend, where you expose your vulnerability, you go beyond time into timeless awareness being totally natural and you allow, no manipulation no control, no cajoling, no convincing, no seduction, and you become intimate.  The next stages beyond intimacy include surrender, passion and then ecstasy.

Ecstasy is the exultation of spirit!

Every day we should aspire to work on our individual selves, we need to take time to quiet our spirits, close our eyes ask a few questions to ourselves.  Here are the steps:   

First, quiet your spirit, then ask the question and then silently listen.

   

Ask yourself, who am I?

What do I want?

What is my purpose?

In doing this, we begin to know who we are, then, we will find ourselves attracting the people in our lives that we need.  We are able to match our hearts and souls to those that harmonize with our values, inner-spirit, and life goals. 

My personal reflection is the destruction of my relationships has been based upon others actions and my reactions which have not always been the most positive.  There are those in my past who have sought to control me, manipulate on some levels, causing me to be defensive, always seeking agreement to their point of view which sometimes I felt was contrary to my perception of personal truths.  When others do this, or we engage in this mode of relating, we are only expressing varying degrees of selfishness, rather than selflessness.  And honestly, why do we want to control others?  Why do we expect everyone to have to agree, it is not always productive, we should embrace our differences and realize it creates opportunity for growth rather than a platform for restrictive living. 

After years of growth my personality has evolved to allow others to be who they are, to embrace our differences, and to welcome their varying viewpoints.  We do not need to be in relationships where we are constantly challenged for what we do, believe, or with whom we associate.  This pattern of behavior is destructive and only leads to the death of a relationship. I do not know about you, but I am sick of seeing relationships hitting the skids because both parties are not enlightened enough to work on themselves and grow.  The self-destruction of relationships many times happen when one or both partners become so controlling as to prevent one another from evolving to a state of self-actualization in who they are. 

I believe we should support and sustain one another, encourage our partner’s personal and professional endeavors, show affection, give of ourselves, sacrifice for the other individual, express compassion and create a loving atmosphere of real concern, admiration and genuine selflessness. 

There will most undoubtably be moments of challenge in each of our relationships, so we must always remember the resources of God to get us past the difficulties.  We must always remember to accept the other person, love them and forgive them and continue to love them.  It may not always be so easy, but it absolutely worth the effort! 

A good way to start is to pray together every day and show appreciation in small special ways.  We must decide living in love which means to be forgiving, giving, showing and expressing our love as the best way to live a fulfilling, enlightened life and take daily steps to living a life of ecstasy.  The way to live a satisfied  grace-filled life is by removing all judgment, stopping our controlling, believing in one another and sharing our lives in the most simplest of ways.  Our hearts become eternally connected and together with our partner we experience true contentment and personal life-long happiness.  Our lives take on a feeling of indescribable joy found in embracing our partner for who they are and who we become with them. 

I sincerely hope for all of you who have read these thoughts, that you are able to find, create, sustain and enjoy the most wonderful loving relationship with the person of your dreams.

Faith

Maybe I am reaping the whirlwind of my sin?  Trials and tough times come and we do not understand it.  Everything can be fine in one moment and the next moment we are in heartache and trials.  We usually always ask why?  How can I stand up underneath this?   If we hang in there and see it through, we will have answers if we approach we an attitude of joy.  Reflect upon James 1:3-4.

“For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.”

God is speaking to me today, to teach me patience and provide an attitude of endurance.

Life sometimes goes along like a perfect trip.  Then sickness, heartache and economic depravation hits us and we ask why?  The reason is so we can lack nothing.  So we can become mature, God sometimes places us in trials so we build muscle, makes us stronger and grow us up.  Anytime we have a problem and difficulty we look up and God knows He has our attention.  He wakes us up so we lack nothing.

Sometimes we flunk his course and he makes us go through it again, and we wonder how we will get through all of this.  Reflect upon James 1:5-8.

“5If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.”

You may ask, “How can I survive the tensions in my life?”  We need wisdom which is knowledge plus application, we ask for wisdom in faith.  So how we ask in faith?  We kneel and pray and ask God, and tell Him I do not know how to handle this, and we ask in faith for wisdom.

We ask in faith with the Holy Spirit and we become double souled.

Sometimes we are like people who do not know whether to get on the bus or not, and it leaves and we stand there as the bus passes by and we live in our indecision.

In tough times, God is maturing you and me with wisdom.  We are crowned with life when we handle tough times this way, it is supernatural.

The success of a marriage and relationships is defined in how you handle conflict. 

In the toughest times, true love comes out. 

Let’s pray not just for strength, but wisdom not to waste what I am going through.

When we are in tough times, God knows that we are there, and He is surrounding us with love, and we are under His discipline and training, and we are subjected to God’s schedule and His timing. 

O’ Lord help us to not waste tough times as we go through them.  Trials build our faith! 

If there is to be healing, it begins with you and it begins with me.

I do not know what trial or burden you are facing today?  Maybe it is a serious illness in your family, heartbreak, abuse, a lost child, the mourning of a death or the ending of a relationship, or perhaps great financial difficulty, or maybe a multiplicity of these burdens at once.  It does not matter, we must remain in faith.  We may scream at God and wonder why can’t certain prayers be answered?  Why is someone the way they are, why are they unable to open their heart, why do they always runaway?  In the case of illness not be healed?  How long must we pray for a special someone in our life to be changed with revelation? 

I am sorry that I do not have all the answers why particular prayers are not answered with the end result we desire.  I am sorry and ask for forgiveness from those special people in my life who read this for the aggravation and hurt I have caused in your lives.  God is not so perplexing, what is perplexing is how we continue a cycle of sin which keeps us in a state of unrest.

I am sorry, and today feel inadequate in how to end this writing, except to say, if there is to be healing it begins with you and it begins with me.  Together we pray: O’ Lord, help us not to waste this moment and through whatever trial each of us is encountering, either known publicly or deep within our souls, please build our faith as we trust only in you.  Amen.

Dear Reader My Friend,

I love you!

The Story of Life

In the story of your life what chapter are you living, what chapter are you reading?  Is it the sad part, are you going back and re-reading prior chapters, is there something which has moved you, or is the suspense so grand you cannot wait to lift the next words off the pages and read on?

Life is a wonderful miracle and we should all be so happy to embrace each new day.  Who we are is our emotions, to deny this is to deny ourselves. 

Who is your true self?  Who do you want to be?  So many people judge us by a few words or an insane moment and there is this disconnect they fail to understand.  There is so much to your life, many mysteries in the undiscovered ocean of your soul.  To some this acknowledgement creates excitement, for others fear.  My friend, hold steady to your course, be true to yourself.

You know who you are, the passions you desire, and the undeniable love you possess.  Unfortunately, people lie to themselves, but not you, let them run away.  Let them run away from truth, no shaking or amount of love will change them.  It’s like pouring a priceless elixir all over the ground.  They are blind from ignorance, and rather than they stripping off the bandages from their own eyes, they blame you for their darkness.  Don’t let them do it, runaway from their sin, but I know you --- you will continue to love them.  Maybe one day they will rise out of their ignorance, maybe they will awaken to truth and a view a new reality and see vividly a clearer picture of you they never understood.

You cannot help who you are; generations of breeding have brought you to this point.  You are the best creation from the complexity of your bloodline. Those passed before you know who you are, your sensitivities, your caring, the strength of your emotions, your definiteness of purpose.  They wish they could be here, but they are not, they scream from the grave: ‘live brilliantly, don’t waste an ounce, stay true to yourself and live your course vibrantly!’

So here I stand.  Here I stand alone in this moment, in this chapter to know who I am.  I ask you in my questioning room, what do you fear?  What do you fear in me and why?  Why are you so afraid?  Are you afraid of a man who requires knowing more than the shallowness of your existence?  Are you afraid to uncover your feelings and reveal who you are?  I will not judge, I have no right to, I am a horrible sinner who has lived a life full of mistakes.

I choose now to live a sacred existence based upon faith and love.  Life is not meant to be lived in dichotomies, step over here and live brilliantly with me.  For you see, I love you and cannot help myself.  I just do.

Cast away your fears, let real love takes its course and together let us write a new chapter.  A chapter filled with light and happiness, a wonderful story based upon faith and the revelation of our brilliance.  Together, let us become resilient champions in the fight for our love.

Perfect Day

Today is a perfect day

I choose to love you

I choose to love myself

It is a perfect day

Because you allow me to express the perfection in my soul

Thank you for not judging me

Telling me who to be

What to do

Who to be befriend

You allow me to care and share my love for all

I thank you

The sky may not be blue

But with you

It is always a perfect day

Thank you for your understanding

Thank you for your encouragement

Thank you for your belief

Thank you for your prayers

Thank for your courage

Thank you for kindness

Thank you for your honesty

Thank you for your love

Thank you for being you

With you it is always a perfect day

I have never said this before

I love your soul

I admire you

If you need me, you know where I am

I am eternally yours

You know I love you

And I know you love me too

And in our moments together

Sadness is wiped away

Soulful expression revealed

Truth never repressed

With you it is always a perfect day!

God Draws Straight with Crooked Lines...

Preface:  This next Sunday is the beginning of the Church Year, as we prepare to bring Christ into our hearts in advent season, think about what His love means to you.  ...And truly ponder your experience as a true example of His love to others.

God Draws Straight with Crooked Lines…

“Lo, I am with you always even until the end of the age.” - Matthew 28:20

In the theatre of your soul, what role do you play?  Do you live a life where you strive to fit in, or do you realize you as a Christian are meant to stand out?  Whom and what do you listen to in your life?  Do you listen to God, read His word, do you seriously ponder or do you read and read without acknowledging the real power of His words as they are lifted off the pages into your mind?  Can you and I continue to break all His commandments?  Do you and I seek to judge or use our better judgment?  Without any effort, it is His light which shines upon our darkness. 

If someone placed a gun at your head and said deny Him and live, what choice would you make?

Does the light of Christ shine through you?  Are you His conduit? 

What do all people seek in their lives?  ...calm, peace, love 

Love is important, the most important of all things. This dark world would like to see love distorted, many people do not know what real love is.  Follow Jesus and learn of untold truths of God.  On earth, a good marriage is the best example of love as you understand marriage is a compromise of wills.  You must give, and give and forgive and give again.  Giving must be pure, giving and learning about heavenly things and Jesus will teach you about love and prepare you for the love you will receive in Heaven.  Jesus will open your eyes in a greater degree time and time again until you can see with His eyes, let Him teach you about love.

He will never desert you, He always cares, He always forgives, and He always loves.  Christ has chosen you, in His eyes you are Holy and dearly loved.  Do you know the real extent of how He loves you?  Do you really know how to define immeasurable?

So in the theatre of your soul, what role do you play? Do you stand out or do run away?  Do you know how to forgive, starting over again, time and time again, or is your heart grown to liken this world and become isolated, cold and dark seeking your own passion only in the end to find misery and hurt.  Do you know what true love is all about, or have you chosen the distorted view of the world and created in your mind your own definition and limits?   Is following His truth proven too much to handle?  Are you chasing fool’s gold always seeking something more to never really find something more?

Let me tell you where the real treasure lies, where it can be found, not to be hoarded but given away, it lies at the bottom of a cross.  You and I will never know such pain, such sacrifice… But if you stop, kneel down and look up, you will find in your life your greatest gift, your greatest lover, the greatest believer in you, the one who always has His arms open, ready to always rescue, protect, console, heal, love and provide you with the definition of immeasurable...  immeasurable forgiveness and immeasurable love all one in the same.    

All praise and glory be given to His name!

"Joy"

I was watching the movie “The Bucket List” this evening on television, the two main characters were played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.  They decided to travel the world before their time was completely ended by terminal illness.  They traveled to Egypt where sitting on the top of a pyramid gazing at another pyramid in the distance, Morgan Freeman’s character explained to Jack Nicholson’s character the Egyptians had to answer two questions before entering the gates of Heaven.  The first question was….'what has brought joy into your life?'  …and the second, 'what joy did you bring into the lives of others?'

Upon pondering these thoughts I wonder what really brings joy into my life.  Who has been a joy in my life, what joy have I brought others and how do I want to live?  Life is incredibly too short. We must fulfill our dreams by living daringly and strive to achieve our goals.  We won’t be able to squeeze everything into a short time- frame, for this reason we have been given all these years to accomplish much.  I think about all the things I have accomplished in my life, my talents, abilities, desires and motives.  And knowing my abilities and potentialities and therefore accelerate forward brazenly with the intentional will to discover more of my life.

With these thoughts of rejuvenation, I am easily able to begin to recreate the list of goals from an earlier time in my life to achieve and reflect upon the example of John Goddard who had so many goals he wanted to accomplish and did. Like him, and inspiration from the bucket list, I set my sights on a broad variety of objectives.  I have held myself back for way too long, there is so much life to be experienced.

I have set a huge goal to be achieved this next July, it involves international travel, physical strength, mental stamina, requires achieving many other small and some not so small goals to prepare for this life event. The accomplishment of this goal will bring about a new enlightenment into my conscious experience, and it will be so meaningful there will be a personal transformation in my thoughts, persona, and life force.  It will create a new personal awareness of my being and definitely bring joy into my life and allow me to bring joy and inspiration into the lives of others.

God has great plans for me; to understand His plans requires a perception of which many times we do not want to accept.  Where I plan to go there is danger, but there is also love.  The people there upon seeing you will spontaneously hug, no reservations or societal restraint as we have here.  Ironically, this goal I have set was earlier in this month and watching this movie was reinforcement of my motives.

My spiritual mission statement is Proverbs 21:21, if I can love as God, truly as He, then I will be so much a different person.  To love as God means sometimes giving people money you do not know, helping a stranger, bringing a laugh to a cashier, a needed smile to someone in the distance, a tight embrace to a friend or to hold their hand.  And of course, to forgive and forgive!  To you, my dear friend, let God be the judge, not the world! 

I want to take a moment to digress.  Live as you want to live, write more notes, give more hugs, kiss if you decide, stop letting the pressure of what seems socially acceptable prevent you from living a transformed life.  God wants you to love, He is purely love and when you also live as pure love, you will begin to understand what I am saying.  God is way beyond our societal dos and don’ts and yet we possess this perceived notion that He is so staunch.  This perception is derived through hundreds of years of the Catholic influence upon our Christian faith and even though the charismatics won’t admit it.  If you and I were to be living on an island in the South Pacific our mannerisms and outlook on life would be so much different than if we were to be living on Manhattan Island.  How do you want to live?    Stop living scared rather live a sacred life as a blessing revering others treating them as Holy.  My vision of Jesus is that He will hug and kiss me, my perception of Holy is that if you do the same to others your life will be lived on a whole new higher and more evolved plane.  How do you want to live?

What joys are you experiencing in life?

What joy are you bringing to the lives of others?

Is your life all about yourself?  Or is it about what you can give to others in your life, not just your family members, but your co-workers, your extended family, your clients, neighbors, special friends, and acquaintances.  Do you really treat others as hallowed?  What blessings do you shower?  And what are you capable of?   

Remember there may not be a tomorrow….

I hope the expression of my thoughts found here bring you some semblance of joy.  Maybe a cause for personal introspection for you is not so bad.  I write so you will know me.  And I write so you will think and help you learn to know you and discover a little more of who you are.

I know who I am, a very strong person unafraid to express my sensitivities, tears, sadness, anger, laughter, happiness and unrestrained joy.  I am real!  Some may not always like real, rather choosing a false sense of identity.  I always forgive, sometimes slowly, I am passionate and I do not apologize for being so.  And when I truly love and give my whole heart away, it is with total and complete abandon, there is no restraint.  I am real, absolutely real, and I sincerely hope you choose to be real with me. 

I love you!

"Beautiful"

This evening as I write these thoughts which invade mind from the feelings deep inside, I ask a simple question. How do we define true beauty?  Is beauty defined in speaking out loud the name of your lover?  Is it a person, a place, a lifestyle?  Is it the thought of your mother?  What words emanate your thoughts?

Here are some simple words to describe beauty…..

Beautiful

Gorgeous

Stunning

Attractive

Striking

Elegant

Dazzling

Lovely

Magnificent

Picturesque

Delightful

Pleasing

Radiant

Beauty is perhaps someone who is an incredibly in touch with themselves, completely at ease with the most graceful of mannerisms.  It is a person who speaks highly of others, is sensitive, kind and caring.  They seek to live soaking up each moment and in doing so drawing you into a new world inside of your world.  It is almost an indescribable feeling as you become entranced with each of their movements, the words they speak, the breaths they take and the feeling you experience in their touch.  When your eyes meet instead of looking away you cannot but help deeply gaze and stare intently into the soul of one another.  It is a good feeling agreeable to whom you are in so many ways.  It is a shared virtuous love known only to each of you.  Instead of denying and clothing ourselves in societal cloth, speak effortlessly, gaze intently, embrace and lightly touch.  ‘This is our life’.  Not one second is to be wasted, the world continues cycling round and round, let’s not regret.  Let’s be who we are and who we can be.  Place your hand in mine, let’s smile as we run, let our souls connect discover our shared beauty and together find ourselves in our own special world inside our world. 

You and I, let’s decide to love one another and set ourselves free and together learn to be

Beautiful!

What Makes You Unique and Incomparable?

What makes you unique and incomparable? 

This question begs an answer based on introspection and truth, usually the best person to answer is always someone who knows us well.  The person who knows you best is you, so how do you answer?

What makes you unique?  Is it that you always tell the truth, not only to others but to yourself?  Do you repress your feelings and affect how others treat, love and care for you.  Your uniqueness is that you are truthful, caring, loving, giving, forgiving, sensitive, kind, passionate, free spirited, romantic, intelligent, broad-minded, progressive,  cosmopolitan, a seeker of solutions.  You are not a quitter, rather persevere, always striving forward, a visionary with ability to see a brighter future, focus on how life can be rather than how it is.  You are a writer, an actor and painter. You seek to live well in this act knowing the passion and pain, the excitement and thrills with great prayer will bring about a crescendo of applause in the next scene of your life.  You accept the anointing of God, and know with all that oil the devil will never get a real grip.  You live to pursue righteousness, purity, to pour His anointing onto the lives of others, and live a genuine life and allow others to see you naked, who you are, your strengths and your deficiencies, your fragility, your tenderness and devotions, your infatuations, the true power of your love, your potentialities; and in your unmasked state reveal to others true inspiration to live not only as who they are, but as they can be.  You seek to live with unfailing love, and know there is only one in your life of the living who truly understands.  God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost they are your example, He cannot help Himself but to love and love and love.  The closer you become to Him, you realize you also cannot help yourself.  When you were seven, you wanted to be a preacher, and now you know why.  He lives in you and His spirit inside causes you to love and know better than most the true power of His forgiveness and His acquittal as you too live with abounding grace.  And as His grace flows through you, those who know you sometimes just do not understand, it is the anointing of His unfailing love that causes you to live as Him. 

So what makes you incomparable?  You live not to be as only who you are.  Each day provides a new canvass to paint, an adventure to be lived, a new moment for self-metamorphosis, to change and grow and become better than day before.  You live as an explorer and adventurer. You find the mighty river, you have learned it does not always make sense to turn back and fight upstream, but rather to take advantage of the current and discover the excitement of new realities.  What makes you incomparable is you do not abandon others, rather you truly love and always seek to bring everyone along.  The strength of your friendship, your love and your caring makes you know every day is our new tomorrow.  It is okay to say you’re sorry, it is okay to say I fouled up and let’s start anew, you exclaim, “your forgiven” and together we climb in our craft properly named ‘Unfailing Love’ and we travel the river.  We shout out into the blue sky what the spirit has placed inside, our mantra for living ‘pursue righteousness and unfailing love.’  In doing so, we find the greatest treasure eternally discovering life, righteousness, honor and love.    

“Whoever pursues righteousness and unfailing love will find life, righteousness, and honor.”

Proverbs 21: 21 NLT

I Wonder What is Left in My Soul

I wonder what is left in my soul?

Is there really a woman who can love and not let go?

All my strength is gone.

My imagination is dying.

I have prayed and prayed, but what’s the use…

I just do not understand.

I wonder what is left in my soul?

Do you know what you do to me?

Do you know everything inside of me is wanting you?

Do you know everything inside of me is needing you?

Do you know how deeply I care, and how I just cannot desist?

Do you know how far for you I would go?

Do you know what is left in my soul?

Do you know the door to my heart is still open for you?

Do you know how I really forgive?

Do you know how I really love?

Do you know how real I am?

Do you know how special it can really be?

Why are you so lost?

I pray every day for you, I just cannot resist.

Do you know what is left in my soul?

I have never ran away, nor will I ever.

Do you know you who I am and whom I will one day be?

Do you know the light in my soul?

I love you, therein lies the truth.

I pray for you.

I pray God opens your heart and you see the truth.

I pray you forget the sadness in the past.

I pray you see only the good.

Stop where you are.

Do not go further.

It is time for you to realize what can be.

I am telling you the facts.

I possess real devotion.

I am true.

I love you!    


And if you would just really love me,


If you could just know the truth...


Then you would know


You are the light of my soul.


You are the light of my soul.


You are truly the light of my soul.


And I love you!

See Through the 'Eyes of God'

”Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” – Phillipians 4:8

Seeing through the eyes of God is to love, coalesce and morph our lives and the relationships of our lives through our thinking and creating.  We are not God so we cannot create on the scale of His ability, but here on earth, when we become in touch with our inner-being we can create our lives by controlling our thoughts.  In Proverbs it is written, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”, in our everyday lives we create our reality by the power of our thoughts.  Some people want to believe this is too ‘new age’ for them to believe this, but what is ‘new age’ about Proverbs 23:7?  It is written in the Old Testament and the words again are authored by God and written by Saint Paul in Phillipians 4:8. 

We as human beings living our everyday existence get so caught up in our struggles and reliving and expounding upon our drudgeries then bring forth more by continually speaking of the muck.  This is not what we are supposed to do.  Instead, we are to focus only upon optimistic thoughts and what we want our lives to be.  Does God get caught up in believing things are bad, and thus brings forth more unwelcomed circumstances?  Does He hate and bring forth more hate?  No!  Jesus Christ is our ultimate example!  Paul wrote, “Be imitators of Christ” – Ephesians 5:1.  God is only love…    “The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love." 1 John 4:8 "  God loves and loves and loves.  “For God so loved world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” – John 3:16.  Okay, how does this apply to our thoughts?

Pretty easy, a few new daily affirmations can change our thoughts, our lives and create a whole new reality and allow us to live on a higher plane and attract greater good into our everyday experiences. 

I am an imitator of Christ.

My thoughts create my life, so today I choose to imitate God and I will love you.

God is love, and I am a child of God, and if I am to imitate Him, than I too am love.

I think of only the best of people, only the best!

This last affirmation brings to mind a quote from Mark Twain. “Small people belittle other people, but a really great person, also makes you too feel you can become great.”

We need to stop belittling ourselves first!  We need to focus on becoming much more than our smallest thoughts.  Instead of believing we are weak, we need to believe we are powerful.  We are created in God’s own image.  God is the great creator, and we as sons and daughters of God also create.  Our ability is only limited to the realm of this earth, but we create through our thoughts.  We are to have thoughts of love and forgiveness.

What is the greatest commandment?   “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.  The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. “ – Mark 12:30-31   These are Jesus words.  His thoughts are to be our thoughts and causes us to reach beyond our sinful selves and live in the illumination of His love only brought upon us by Christ’s sacrifice and our reconciliation to the Father.

So instead of abandoning our best selves in the throes of melancholy self-righteousness, we need to change our thoughts.  We need to realize we create our reality by believing today is a new day, create loving relationships with our families, with our friends, co-workers, and clients.

Think on a higher plane, your whole life is personal, truly it is, there is no separation from personal and professional.  This is the biggest piece of hogwash.  What about you is NOT personal?  Think about how Jesus Christ sees things.  What about God is NOT personal?  Is there a professional Jesus and a personal Jesus?  “LOL”   You better hope He is personal at the moment of your last breath!

Dear God,

Today I am calling upon you from one professional to another professional…. Do you think we can have a conversation about your professional love….LOL.   Good Grief!

My point is this, God is love, the second greatest commandment as spoken by Jesus and expressed to us in His eternal words as written in Mark, empower and demand us to love everyone, to live from a personal perspective.  By the way, I dare you to complete an internet search the word ‘professional’ in the Bible.  Listen to the Sunday morning preacher, ‘If you would like to know Jesus as your personal Savior’…. Have you ever heard of a professional Savior? 

Likewise, I do not have professional friends, all my friends are personal, they may have a professional life based on what they do for a living, but when it comes to friendship, caring and love it is personal. 

So back to the premise of my writing today!  We are the creators of our reality, we are only to think about what we want, not what we do not want.   Sometimes when we are rejected by others, it makes our life more complicated. But, through prayer and deep meditation with God Almighty as we seek His ultimate wisdom, we continue to focus on what we want knowing His hand will bring about the proper results.  In our hurt, it is sometimes difficult to maintain faith, with constant reassurance by listening to His word and seeking the love of our friends, we find faith and bask in the illumination of His love which transcends anything we can experience on this earth.

God loves us, we are to love everyone, start today and begin loving everyone; tell someone you know, a friend who needs to know you love them those three little words, “I love you”.  Tell them in a very real way not some flippant manner like ‘love ya’, but look them into their eyes and express those words with meaning and change their life and yours.  In doing so, you become a creator and God will send an echo from His universe causing you to receive more love today.

Thank you for reading.

I love you!

P.S. Today, Live a little more like a First Century Apostle, rather than always a sojourner in a twenty first century society.

If there were two of me...

It’s too bad there is only one of me!  It would be so nice to be twenty again.  If there were two of me an older and a younger version, just think of the possibilities I could create, the fun to be had, the love to be expressed.  If there were two of me, maybe the older me - the real me would be harsh, pragmatic and distressed over the doings of the younger me.  The younger me I am sure with all the knowledge of the older me, would be more outgoing, less fearful, more free, incredibly more expressive exuding confidence and finding himself re-living the unfulfilled fantasies and passions of the older me.

Then I think, it is really nice to be the older me, sure I would rather look like and feel like the younger me, and if I knew then what I know now…wow!  I am sure the younger me today would be much more impulsive, unrestrained and filled with surprising confidence saddled up and ready to live, live, live chasing dreams thinking how great it will be when I am the older me. 

But here I am, the older me, the real me!  So what complaint do I have?  In reality, I am the older younger me, inside of me there lies the unexpressed passions, daring do, and a restlessness awaiting for release.  Let’s travel the world, experience adventure, embrace life, pack more into each day, sleep less and live more.  There is so much more living to do.  Older me quell your fears, decide to be successful today, let not anything stop you, harm you, dust off your feet and march forward!  Keep on praying, keep on living, guard your thoughts and guide them to fulfill the completion of your dreams, create more and live your fantasies.  God wants to give you what you want.  He wants you to live, live, live!  He didn’t make you to muddle, complain and cry, rather He made you to be all you can be before you die.

So dear reader my friend, here I am the real me, the person you think you know.  I have so much to do and I am going to do it!  Listen as I tell the former me good bye, in the game of life, practice is over the game clock starts now.  Me, you are the starting line-up and you are your own shining star.  So, what you waiting for?  Get out there and go get them!  Life is to be lived, lived, lived and you are the only one who can decide. Today is the day and you are man!  This moment is created by God just for you, make this day, this present moment, your greatest moment, your greatest gift to God and to you by living not as two, but who you are.  There’s no one stopping you, there is no one who loves you more than you. Who has to put up with you more than you, and encourage you more than you,  and of course, be with you all the time more than you?  So, as you travel throughout this day, keep your head-up and live life all the way.

Remember the best of all the old days, the memories which inspired you.

“For yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.” – Author Unknown