Mar 13, 2005 09:22
"Today is a Wonderful Day"
The excitement and rush is here. The challenge of a lifetime.
Competition is an understatement.
The game: "Me" vs. "My Own Self"
Who will win? Who will endure? Who will conquer?
I have been living my whole life on the edge of the cliff, living off
the adrenaline of the rush of each situation. Each new talent being
maximized to it's potential. The day has finally come, where I meet
my match. I get to play the same me, who has defeated me, each and
every step of the way. Now, I must face him once and for all.
The dilemma being that once this game begins, it can never be allowed
to end. It is a life long battle, which can and will only build strength,
as the game moves perfectly along. From what I have been told and have
briefly experienced, it will be a much easier victory when I let go.
Allowing our Creator to guide me where I am supposed to go, while
I go there making decisions I can always own.
I know the game, it's components and the key obstacles.
Ironically, my journey, which traveled to and from the depths of
addiction, carries much baggage most care to leave behind. Whether
it be sex, gambling or drugs, quite surely, it will entail the
likes of many peoples disapproval and disgust.
However, the focus should not be on the issue, as it brings nothing
but judgments, even more so, individual opinions. We refer to these as
good and positive, other times negative, perceived as bad. Ironically,
it is these bad ones we usually face alone.
Some negative and some positive, but that is for each to judge by
thyself,. My belief, shown to me thru a God given vision, portrayed
that the true light shall come from within each experience, that we can
and will truly know as our own.
Mostly, it is thru this, I can educate others what I learned, while
I endured each tiny little bit of humility, which deepens my roots to
my Father who is always in my home.
You see, being allowed to make our own decision is to enjoy what is
some may define as "true freedom".
However, for this to be true actual freedom, we must each own our own.
Each sin. Each fault. Each flaw. Not for the sake of saying it is ok,
or for our personal relief from our pain, but for the support it will
provide to help others who may be trying to leave that exact vice alone.
This can only be done by one who has lived it, which is what we call true
experience, which is ever defining our past points to where we are. Rather
than by those who may talk from facts, not even being close to true moments
of their own. This is what creates what can be referred to as gossip, while
acting like we really know what others claim. Stick to your own true life
experiences, please consider, as this is where, in my belief, lies the Golden Key
to our Fathers Throne.
"The Experience".
It is our asset, not our baggage. I am here to say that it is time to unpack.
I am not the only one who has done that, whatever it may be. However, I may
be the only one in reach, who just might help another to their feet. Also,
helping them understand they are not alone, not at all, allowing their shameful
thoughts to take a back seat.
Impossible to help another, if it is I who is ashamed.
What is it that you or I know, that the other one does not? Let us share and
teach each other so that we may better get to know. To know each other, like
no one before us has. Share withme your experience.
"The Experience".
The key ingredient to seeing the beauty, lying around us in His plan for our next
day. It is the only vital and necessary tool we have, each individual uniqueness
creating one and the same.
I have a few, you have some more, and we each have countless moments past, which
pile gracefully on top of all which has already quickly amassed. The miracle is
that each has it's own purpose, which individual moments of truth come together
defining our past. However, more importantly, let us not forget, these same
moments are securely shaping our future.
Each of our truth's of experience, hold an individual purpose. A purpose, for the
bigger story, we have remaining to still be told. We, are the seeds of the future.
Amazingly, our creation we are nourishing, we will not see while we all are still
breathing, while we are still fighting, for what we think we rightfully own.
We only own one thing. Our own experience.
Listening to another as they share what they have done, keeping our mind open to
both sides of each view. However, listening with an non-judging ear because we
lack that Authority which never was meant for us humans to own.
The problem is we only have our own experience to go by. Which means we lack quite
a few details. Most masterful art pieces need each and every brush stroke, as does
each creation of literature rely on every key stroke. Even our past musicians who
created heart felt melodies and up beat rhythms feeding on all the music notes.
Last but not least, we need every vocal cord, speaking up strongly for what they
believe, if our future is to be in Heaven, while we still habitat on the Earth
where Heaven has always been.
How is that possible?
This is what the rest of the world is here for.
I need you for my battle. My game. My challenge.
Why?
God's love is shown when two people come together, not in one person so he
can go out alone. Quite the contrary, he guided and watched over me, on my
long heart felt journey, remaining alert each step of the way, that I was unaware
of His Beauty and even more so, all alone. Never knowing that His plan for me
was to interact with people, here and there, sharing only my experience while
allowing them to have their own. Their own, which is only just and fair.
This act of allowing each other to endure and experience, does more than the
mind can fully conceive. Presenting each individual, the respect God initially
bestowed on us, so we could pass it on to our brothers and sisters, His Children,
right in our very own home. He continually desires that each one of us receive
this gift, which He created for us to give away, and that same gift of respect
which we will give others will come in great abundance, the more we give it
away, when it is what we truly want to bestow.
He also blessed us with His Son in human form, at a time when He saw accurately
fit, to corral both sides of his Beauty, so they can separate to spread more of
His Gifts. Unimaginably, these conflicting beliefs which created our present
day religious assemblage, came without aid of our present day communication,
through media, literature and cyber files and servers.
This interesting aspect of perspective, makes me ponder if today's diversity
is essential, to truly visioning His Masterful Plan, which has many Gifts,
because inside these differences lie the unique treasure of these gifts which
still remain unwrapped due to judgment and shame, which is the result of closed
minds and sin.
I think it is. Stop and look around. It is everywhere. Each piece patiently
awaiting the time for it's unearthing, unwrapping and unexplainable joyous beauty.
Timely beauty, I think they call it.
Today marks that milestone for me, as I commit to this lifelong process, each
step of the way taking my failures seriously, to build strength for my grateful
days, which lie ahead. Each day, filled with an opportunity to open the heavens
up from where it has always been.
Lying right here in the experience.
Right here. Today.
Today is a wonderful day.
Allow each you cross to Experience his or her own, only because
it is what is necessary to do the same with your own moment in time.
Timing is not everything,
it is the only thing,
and that is His
call to make,
not ours.
Round_and_Round
.
Jamie