Love is The Best

      I believe love is the best thing that you can have in this world. Not superficial love but deep down unconditional kind of love. The kind of love between a mother and father and their children. You do not have to impress your children. You just need to be around to support them and show that you do care. Children will love you just because you are there with them. I think if you have that kind of love, you have the best thing that this world has to offer.
     I have heard many times people say that their family means everything to them. Their family gives them something that they need in this world and that need is love. Love should never be over looked in our lives because it is the most important thing that we could ever have. If we do not have love we are diminished in life. We will walk around trying to find something to fill the emptiness inside of us.
     We do cling to those who do give us a feeling of love. Because we know that we need love as much as we need air and water. Love is the best thing that we can have because it makes us want to keep on living. Our world becomes more colorful, more joyful, and more comfortable to live in with love. Love makes us feel safe and secure like everything we will be alright. Love makes us feel like that we have everything that we need.
     It could just be me but I feel that our world has become a little cold, distant, and indifferent toward others. I feel the only love that we can find is within our own families and if we do not have a loving family then it will be hard to find it from anyplace else. Perhaps a pet, good friends or a social group can provide us with some kind of love but sincere love seems to me to be a rarity then commonplace. I think the reason for why it is lacking is because so many of us do not feel loved and we cannot give what we do not have.
     I do not really know why love is in such a short supply but I do know that we cannot survive without it. Maybe we can survive but cannot really live without it. The quality of our life is just as important as the type of food that we eat. Love can save us where as violence and hate will destroy us. Love is the best thing that we can have. I feel a sense of warmth just by writing about it, love is that powerful. Love can heal us and make us feel closer and with love we can change our entire world.

Feeling Like Spring in Winter

     Today is a time for our celebration, Why? Because we are alive. Even though it feels like we are surrounded by death and sorrow. Somehow life has given us more time to live. So lets celebrate while we still can. Even though it is winter lets make it feel like springtime on the inside. Lets fill our lives with what we can do now so to make us feel better.

     Lets think positive. Like, I will open my life up and let the spring air in. I will let it energize me, strengthen me and heal me. Spring is a time for rebirth and new beginnings, so let it be spring every time we need it to be. No waiting around for it. The time is now. 

     How do we celebrate this inner springtime? By doing everything that make us smile and be happy. If I feel like dancing, I will dance. If I feel like singing, I will sing. If I feel like painting, I will paint. No matter if I do not have the skill for it, if I feel like doing it then I will do it. Whatever makes you feel happy then do those things. 

     Sad times seems to come to us automatically but with our own happiness sometimes we need to take action. Our sadness makes us slumber while our happiness makes us feel awake and alive. So lets feel alive and let the springtime in.

     Death will always want us and it will get us one day but not now because we have so much more to do. As long as there is life in my body, living becomes my priority and not dying. While I am alive, I have time to enjoy everything that life can offer me. Mourning life is not an option for me if I can celebrate life I will. I do not want to live my life in sadness but I want to be apart of life just like all of nature. I am part of nature and nature is all about being alive.

     Celebrate! Celebrate your life. Celebrate all life. Let springtime flow through you anytime of the year, making you feel alive and happy.

We Must Find Our Own Way

     I sometimes look at the people of the world and think to myself that their just lost. They need to find a direction to go in. I would like to tell them to go this way but in truth they must find their own way. If I would tell them come join me on the beach and enjoy warmth of the sun, some would say I rather be in the mountains or the valley or even camping in the woods. What I believe to be the ideal place is not their ideal place to be.

     I have to be careful that I do not become so arrogant that I believe to know what everybody needs. We each need different things to be happy. If I were to say to eat less there may be others that need to eat more. If I were to say exercise more there maybe others that need to stop and just relax. One way of doing things does not fit all. Each of us are different.

     All I can say is this is what I like and this works for me. Each of us must decide what works for them and what does not. We can take another's advice and change it in a way that it works for us or we can just leave it alone and look for something else. It is our life and we must decide what is good for us.

     I will never pressure you in taking my advice and I hate those who push their opinions so hard like it was the God's truth. They will pressure you to do as they say in order to control you. They will make you feel like you are stupid for not following them. They do not see you as an individual that must find their own way but as someone that they can use to do their bidding.

     I would like to say that I know all the answers but that would be a lie. Life is just so complicated to know everything. I am just a small speck on the surface of the earth and my life is so short compared to it's age. I feel I haven't even scratch the surface to the knowledge of what is out there. 

     We will struggle and we will make mistakes on that road of finding our own way. You cannot rush the process like it was a competition. Just relax and enjoy the process and try to keep an open mind. Do not close yourself off but asked for help if you need to. 

     Strive for peace and understanding. Hate less and love more. Do not worry about to what will come tomorrow but enjoy today if you can. Together, we can help each other to find what we are looking for and make our world a better place to live.

Don't Be a Clown in Their Circus

     When I say don't be a clown in their circus, I am saying just be yourself to be loved. Stop pretending to be someone that you are not just to be liked by others. Because over a long period of time it will wear you down and make you tired and angry at yourself and everyone else. One of our goals in life is to find away to love ourselves as we are. It is to find a calming peace within our soul and be able to relax and not be anxious all the time.

     If you are a clown in their circus no one will see if you are sad because you have a painted on smile. You are saying to the world that I am fine but you are not fine at all. You want to be loved even if you do not entertain them. You make them smile while making your ownself sad. You deserve love even if you do not please others. Earned love is short lived while love that is given freely is everlasting.

     Maybe it will be hard for you to understand what I am saying if you can live in this world with a peaceful spirit you will feel loved. Once you let go of trying to please everyone you will feel free. There is a freedom to just being yourself and not caring what others think about you. If people can be themselves, why can't you be yourself? You deserve nothing less. May peace and love always be with you.

From the Beginning and to the End

     I believe we are born from the light of goodness and carry the light within us. I think from our bad choices that light dims within in us but never really goes out entirely. We are like spiritual beings wrap in a biological skin on the outside, we may look different but on the inside we are basically the same. Our purpose is to take that light of goodness and carry it with us all the way to the end of our earthly existence. In the end we will stand before the giver of light and show him the brightness of our own.

     From the beginning and to the end we are tested by trails we face. Our light within will either grow brighter or grow dim by the choices we make. We are beings of light and how can we be happy without it? Darkness is our death and light is our life. We our weakened by the absence of light in anything that we do. Darkness clouds the mind while light opens it to unlimited possibilities. Darkness enslaves us and light gives us our freedom.

     From the beginning and to the end our goal is to brighten our own light. It is to not to give in but to stand firm against the darkness. We are to grow stronger and not to surrender to those who have lost their way. Peace, kindness, mercy, forgiveness, understanding and love is light in a dark world. If we cannot do nothing else we can live in the light by doing the right things.

     From the beginning and to the end I will make my way home while carrying the light within me. There are many goals that people will spend their lives accomplishing but for me my main goal is to have a light to show at the end. I do not want to be empty handed and emanating a darkness when I stand before the source of all light. I love the light and want to be standing within it always.  

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."