Recognize divinity within each other
No fear of life Just Be and smile
Know your God
Really know the God in us, the God in Him, the God in Her
The many faces of time showing us the many faces of Divine
Of Nature, Of Man, Of Beast, Of Me
And You
And every Individual
The Great puzzle so simple and profound
We discovered Secrets that were never Lost
I find myself losing my faith in these hard times. I have never been more spiritual in my life, praying everyday, occasionally going to church, and it is funny, because life has never been harder. Once I started praying, months later life got extremely hard.
ReplyDeleteI even have people praying for me and life is going to hell in a hand-basket.
Pray. And Keep Praying! Pray for peace, pray for healing, pray for advances in science, pray for the strength to eradicate poverty and disease, pray for the courage to overcome injustice, pray for resolve, pray for others, pray for yourself. Pray to God with all your heart and soul, then gather up your might to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Prayer is not a passive activity. Prayer alters us. It awakens us. Our eyes begin to notice beauty where we never noticed it before. Our hearts begin to feel compassion we never knew we had. Our priorities shift. As we talk to God, we receive the encouragement to live up to the potential inside us. Soon we start to see beyond ourselves into the world that is waiting for our help. God’s answer to our prayers may be very different from the answer we were searching for. God’s reply might come as the strength to fight on. It may come as the courage to face what we have been fearing. God’s answer may be the ability to accept what we have been denying. Or it may appear as hope in the face of despair. God is neither distant nor deaf. We are not alone. God is present in our lives. When we stop bargaining with God and start opening up our souls to God, our prayers suddenly start working. We can pray for strength and receive strength. Prayer is ultimately an experience, not a request. It is a sense of being connected, of being part of something larger than ourselves. It is an attempt to be in the presence of God. I hope this helps you! When I opened my life to Source things went insane! It is the way for most people (it is what usually happens) This is a good thing! Don't give up or give in. And keep praying and spending time in quiet doing NOTHING but listening. Much peace and love Ashley!
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ReplyDeleteAshley...Ashley..I am sorry but this last comment is too disrespectful to leave on my blog. I can see that your hurting, I can feel your pain. I am not erasing this comment because I am "erasing" you. I am taking it down because I don't believe love belongs with it. And Source/God is love. I am sending you my love and peace. Please feel free to continue to express yourself to me. But I ask for a little more respect. We create our own reality. That is a truth I believe in. We are our thoughts. Peace and Love ~ Amy
DeleteI just went to get a cup of coffee and I forgot, that before the end of the year I will be $5,000 roughly to my eyeballs in fines. I just got fired from my job so I don't have $5,000 dollars to spare on bullshit, do you? So life is going pretty shitty. Last year I was 302ed, which is on my permanent record, which made it so I couldn't go into the peace corps. I had my application already filled out and my recomendations in! So instead, I'm in graduate school that makes me want to blow my brains out. God's been looking out for me. Oh and then months later I was made to believe from the police that my mother was dead. That flipped my world upside down and I almost did kill myself that weekend. Oh but that's all okay Ashley, just keep praying. You must not be praying hard enough. Pray harder. Oh but I am, and guess what, I put myself on the fucking Benedictine prayer list, they must not be praying. I ask all of my friends to pray for me. They must slacking. Because life just gets worse! Oh and go back two years, I have 5 of my animals die in the same year! That was wonderful. I loved that. Things I love just died, and then my grandpa got cancer and he almost died. Now my other grandpa has cancer and will die. lol. It is a funny freaking lovely world out there, and I just can't seem to get my break. But I keep praying.
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry for your pain Ashley. At times it may seem you are very alone in all of this. Words are not always healing in these times. They do so little to reassure us and comfort us. Just know you have people that love you! Life is suffering...that is a Truth! Life is not about how little can suffer. It is about how we respond when we do suffer. And I am struggling with. I am struggling with understanding how to be at peace during my sufferings. I do not have a perfect life. I suffer too. We (the entire world) animals, nature, people, we ALL suffer. Please let love in from family and friends. And call me when you feel despair. Love and peace to you.
DeleteA beautiful poem Amy. I think if we can learn to treat others with more respect and understanding the world would be sweet like a new rose. I am too often quick to judge others who seem too "cookie cutter" to me, I know I need to learn to love them too. Sometimes we just have to take a breath and say they are not like me and that is perfectly fine. Honestly, I wouldn't want there to be an entire society of me out there, what a horrifying thought! Also, if we could all focus on how all religions are connected, not just Christianity but other faiths, I always loved the belief in the Great Spirit. Before missionaries started trying to convert everyone you had people who believed in a higher power naturally, nobody told them what to believe, or gave them names or a list of prayers, they just KNEW. Despite the horrible things that happened to them they just offered it up. That is beautiful. I know I need to be more spiritual but I think it might need to be on a meditative level.
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DeleteAwe thanks Sarah! I felt very inspired to write this after watching a documentary about Jesus. There was a lot that could perhaps anger Christians in this documentary. But I find it to be very beautiful. Here is the link ~
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You wrote so beautifully about the Great Spirit, and the "knowing" on how to talk to God. Thank you. You are SO spiritual!!!