Acceptance and Love

     Imagine what it would feel like to be accepted and loved from one corner of the world to the next. Imagine what it would feel like to go to any country and be treated like family. Isn't this how we should be living together in our world as dear friends instead of being treated as a stranger or worst as a enemy? I believe if we could cultivate acceptance and love within ourselves without any judgement attached, it could be a beginning of something greater for ourselves and our world.

     I believe we should be concentrating on how to accept and love the people and other beautiful things within our world. Acceptance, love and contentment is our way to a greater awareness, it is a way to becoming closer to God. The more we are like our creator, the more we will be at peace with our world. If we are to calm the storm within us acceptance and love is a doorway we have to enter. When we calm our mind, acceptance and love will be there bring us peace and contentment to our soul and spirit.

     I can't help thinking if we could resonate acceptance and love within us it would be beneficial to our health and uplift our spirit. A calmer state of mind would makes us feel better. Our fears and worries would be less or maybe disappear all together. Our consciousness would be expanding and feeling the world around us as a positive rather than a negative. I believe that is what we should be doing trying to touch the mind of God by being like minded in someway. We need to end our separation and start to see our world as he would like for us to see it. Acceptance and love can be the beginning to a global unity. We can start the process by widening our own vision and opening our hearts to acceptance and love.

Romans 15:7 "Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God."

1 John 4:8 "Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love."

Be Content

     I wrote on this topic before. The definition of content is a state of peaceful happiness and also a state of satisfaction. I keep coming back to the subject of contentment as a way to be happy. I recently watch a television program about one brother trying to get his own brother out of the way in order to receive a greater inheritance. He was finally arrested. The brother who was the victim had no clue what his brother was planning. He said to the commentator of the show that his brother should have been content with what he had. His wise words rang true to me. I also believe people would be more happy if they could just be more content with what they do have.

     If only we could say to ourselves everyday I have everything that I need, I believe this would be the beginning of our own happiness and contentment. We would not be wasting our time trying to be happy at attaining sometime in the future but having our happiness now through a peaceful and content state of mind. If you have your basic needs like shelter, food, good health, clothing and a source for some money, why not be happy with those basic things. Why wait until you reach for some goal that will take a long time to accomplish so to be happy?

    I believe happiness is a state of mind that people can achieve if they were just content with what they have. Why keep your mind focused on the things you do not have when you could be happy by just being thankful for the things that you do. We have to find a way to stop our mind from thinking about how empty we are to how full we are. Training our mind away from negative thinking is a hard thing to do but it something we must do if we want to be happy. We must train our mind to think that I have everything that I need instead of thinking that I need something more so to be content. If you don't do the work you we be forever looking and never finding what you need.

     Peace and contentment is now and not tomorrow. Be happy with what you have and if you do decide to get more then make sure your acting out of need than just accumulating more possessions. We must begin to do something different in order to change our ways. Our current state of mind of always wanting and never being satisfied must come to an end. If happiness is our goal, I believe that starting to be content with what we have now is a good beginning. If we can be happy with what little we do have today think how much more joy we will feel when we do get more. Contentment will lead you to happiness and when you feel satisfied you will feel full and not empty. Be content and you will begin to be happy.

1 Timothy 6:6-8 "But godliness with contentment is great gain, ⁷for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. ⁸But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content."

Do You Have to Much Fear?

     Do you have to much fear? Is fear ruling over your life? Sometimes we want to do things but we hold back and we do not know why. We avoid situations that makes us feel uncomfortable. We isolate ourselves in order to protect ourselves from some occurrence that may never happen. We do what we think is expected from us in order to avoid unwanted attention. We do our best to fit in the background and not be notice. What is the result of all these actions. We missed out on things that could have made our lives more enjoyable and fulfilling.  

     Life is passing you by if fear is ruling over your life. You are not taking any risk so you are not learning anything new. Failure is apart of learning a new skill but if you think that failure will make you look foolish to someone you may not even try. You maybe to scared of their laughter or negative comments. Fear can make you stay in one place all your life without you ever venturing out to see what is out there.

     Fear may have a grip on you on a subconscious level, ruling over you in a hidden way. It may have been that you were abused as a child. You may have been raised in a family where there was drug and alcohol abuse. Your emotional growth could have been stunted by the early events that went on in your life. The emotional child within you never really grew and now all it wants to do is hide away from anything that might harm it. We may have grown up but the child within is still scared to death and influencing our decisions.

     It is good to really look at ourselves and to try to see what is hindering us from moving forward in life. We all are different so what maybe effecting me might not be effecting you. But I have to say, take a good look at fear and see if it is one of the causes that is keeping you from enjoying your life. Then if it is look for some solution that may help you because there is a lot of things that you could be doing and enjoying if you did not have to much fear.  

Isaiah 41:10 "fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

Cake and Icing

       I always like writing about our basic self. Like what do we have if all we have is ourself.  However I need to write about our need for companionship as well. We have a need to feel that we are not alone. We have a need to feel that we are accepted and that we matter to someone. I believe we all want a family and friends who care for us and maybe even love us in someway. I will call this the cake that we need.

    I believe, the icing in life is our successes, our money, house, car and all the other material wealth and gain that we have accumulated in our life. The icing really taste good with the cake and it makes us feel satisfied. However if all we have is the icing we will always feel that there is something missing from our lives. No amount of icing can replace the satisfaction that we get from the cake. On the other hand a cake without a little bit of icing our life will not taste so sweet. We need both the cake and the icing to make our life more livable.

1 John 4:19 "We love because he first loved us."   

What You Were Meant to Have

     What you were meant to have is to be happy, to have love and respect in all the days of your life. You were meant to be selfish in this by having has much love, respect and happiness that you can want. There is no limit to these things. No one can stop you from having love and respect. You give your own self permission to have it. If you did try to look to others to give you these things, you will be very disappointed.

     I know that you want people to love and respect you but most people do not love or respect themselves. They do not know how to give these things to you. They judge themselves way to harshly and come up short in their own expectations, so if they judge themselves that way, they will judge you even more. So I say do not wait for their approval but give yourself your own approval to respect yourself enough to love yourself and believe you do deserve to be happy and not just a few days but everyday of your life. This is your purpose in life to be happy, to have love and respect in all the days of you life. The secret in doing this is doing it for yourself and not waiting on others to do it for you.

     If you give yourself permission to have love and respect, you will be happier and more emotionally and spiritually stronger in life. You will be more center and at peace. You will be more capable at handling your problems. You will not let life roll on top of you but being at the center you will roll much easier with life. 

     Our happiness start with ourselves and so does our love. We cannot continue to be beggars in life for these vital things. We cannot let others to control us by their empty promises to love us more or working hard to earn their respect that never comes. It lies within our own hands whether or not we are loved and respected. Our happiness is what we give to ourselves or allow ourselves to have. It is our choice to make. 

     Allow yourself to have what you were meant to have. You were meant to be happy, to have love and to be respected, not just by others but most importantly by your own self.

     

     God believed in us enough to give us his only begotten son so don't you think it is time to believe in yourself if God believes in you.

Tears of Hope

     I listened to a man singing a simple child song on television. His eyes teared up during his performance. The song was about not giving up on hope and the positive connection that we can have with each other. It was about not giving up on our belief that our world can be better place. This singer lived a hard life of doing drugs and getting drunk. Just like many celebrities he lived his life excessively. I believe that song brought back memories of his own childhood where he was more hopeful and had a better outlook on life. In a way that song soften his heart and brought a few tears to his eyes.
     I saw in the tears of this musician even though he was very old there was still hope for him to change his ways. Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." When the hardness of the heart softens it starts becoming pure and in this purity the light of God's truth can be understood. Empathy and hope can still be restored if your heart can still move you to tears. I believe as long as we are still alive and no matter how old we are we can still be redeemed and start a new path in our lives. Tears in our eyes brought on by a song that we heard could restore our hope and bring us a new beginning.

Psalm 51:10 "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me."

I Don't Fit In

     What if you feel that you don't fit in? What can you do? You can wait until the world changes around you but I feel that it could take a long time before that happens. You could change and be like them however I do not feel that you want to be like them. I feel the only option that you have is to be the person you want others to be. If you want others to change you must set the example.
     Jesus Christ was rejected by others. Jesus said in John 15:18 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you." The world hated the Savior of the world, the most perfect man who ever lived. So if the world hated Jesus you know that they will find a way to hate you. What does this mean? You have to keep on living even if some people will hate you because you will eventually find the ones who will love you as you are. There are people out there who do not live their lives by hate there some who have good hearts.
     If you are around people that do not understand you and they even dislike you, look elsewhere for your friends. There are other people in the world who also feel that they do not fit in maybe in time you will find each other. In the meantime keep on being the person you want others to be. If you want them to be friendly, be friendly yourself. If you want them to be more understanding then be more understanding as well. If you think our world is lacking love find that love within you and pour it out onto our world. When we try to change ourselves for the better our world will look better in our eyes.