A Turning Point

     When does a turning point happen in one's life? A point where you cannot go on as you have been doing. Where year after year you do the same things over and over again then something within you changes. A turning point happens. A realization that something is different and you no longer want to go on as you been doing before.
     I compare this change to holding on something so tight within your hand and never letting it go. Day after day you carry it with you. You do notice it is there and it makes your life difficult but yet you cannot let it go. Years past and nothing changes and you keep struggling through life. You try many things to make your life easier but you never find a way to let it go.
     Then something happens. A day comes where your grip starts to loosen and that something within your hand start to slip out. Your hand becomes so tired from holding on to it. Your mind and body had become so exhausted from the mental strain and you no longer want to hold on to it any more. You suddenly realize that the thing within your hand has lost it's power over you. It feels like a great weight lifted off your shoulders and you feel finally free. You feel a calm come over you and you feel more at peace. 
     You wonder how did this happen? Nothing you did on a concsious level worked but some how a change within you still happened. I think that you body and mind through the years became so tired and your body took over in order to survive. It relieved the pressure you put on it and in doing so loosening your grip on the object. The body relaxed your mind and loosened your grip at the same time. A turning point happened and you no longer wanted to hold on the the object. Your own body gave you a second chance to live a more healthy life.
     This is only one example of a turning point. A turning point can happen in many ways. Our mind and body can take only so much and then something has to change for our own good. We may live a certain way and think it is right however our mind and body could suffer from our decision. Time will tell us if we made the wrong choice because our physical and mental health will decline. Our happiness will fade and our enjoyment in life will become less. A turning point will become necessary to make us well again. 

If We Have No One, We Still Have God

      If we have no one, we still have God. I believe this is true from the day we are born to the day we die, God we be always with us throughout our lives. Even if we do not believe in him or even hate him for some reason, he will not abandoned us even though we have abandoned him. In each of us is his spirit that gave us life. It is our connection to God if we choose to use it.
     This seed of God, his spirit wants to grow and connect back to it's source. Within us his spirit raises us up higher than our basic self. Our basic self is designed for our survival whereas our higher self (God's Spirit within) is designed to be used by our basic self to do God's will on Earth. I think a lot of our loneliness comes from a lack of our connection to God. We look for a substitution for God by trying to find a connection with something or someone else and we fail to find any satisfaction. We become lost without a direction and lonely without a connection.
     Our true connection is connecting to the unconditional spirit of God. All we have to do is just be ourselves to be accepted and loved. Our connecting to God will be like connecting to our loving mother, father, sister, and brother all together as one. This will strengthen and refresh our whole soul. In trouble times we will find guidance. In sad times we will find hope. When lonely connecting to God, we will feel that we are not alone.
     If you feel you are not good enough to connect with God, you will be wrong for God is your source for forgiveness. If you cannot get any forgiveness from others, connecting to God will be your beginning to healing. Never believe your are unforgivable, why live your entire life in torment if you can have a little bit of peace? His spirit is still there within you waiting to connect to it's source. Why be broken if you can be made whole? You can be made whole by turning your face toward the light rather than away. Connecting to God's spirit within ourselves is our hope when there seems to be none.

1 Corinthians 3:16 "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you."