Good Monday Morning all . Hope you all had a great Sunday yesterday. Let’s open the new week with a new level of Energy, Excitement, Grace, Gratitude, and Love.
Temptations of our selfishness are a constant battle. We know and feel we should do the right thing but the temptation for temporary satisfaction/ relief of the enemy is a continuous battle . How do we combat it ? Faith, Intention, Self Love and Love for others. How can we determine that the temporary Dopamine hit feels and is good for us when we don’t know or Love ourselves? Just because it feels good at the time does it mean it is good for us ? What are the consequences? How will you feel after it ? If it involves someone else how will it make them feel? This is barking at me right now so off course for a minute: If people fear, hide, run , to avoid abandonment why we would one keep bringing on themselves? Does this uncomfortable feel comfortable? Do we need to live in this state of fight or flight and or I will sedate/ cover with what ever I can to avoid it there by creating and attracting more of it. We fear abandonment but yet we put ourselves in situations where we push others away, Lie, Manipulate, Develop Self-Destructive Behaviors, Cheat , Demonstrate Abusive Behaviors from Verbal to Physical Abuse, Hide all causing further abandonment. With all due respect to everyone I am pretty sure that is the definition of insanity and it Darn ( not the word I wanted to use) is the RECIPE for Addiction. Ok back on track now .
The Temptations of selfishness even if we don’t know it is hard to avoid without a question and is available to us 24/7 ( If you look for it you will find it but first ask yourself do you truly want to find it ? Because you just might)
Who can help one see this ? The first answer is obvious our Higher Power the next our Tribe /Community. What is completely necessary for this to occur not necessarily in the order below, just what came out of me:
Humble
Open
Honest
Vulnerability
Truth
Get uncomfortable
Constructive Criticism
Ability and willingness to truly listen and not respond
Faith
Intentionality
Work
Did I mention Vulnerability
Pain
Scab
Beautiful Scar
The Temptations of selfishness are everywhere and we can take the easy road but is it really? Or we can take do the work choose the less traveled more difficult road
to a more fulfilled life with purpose? Will we truly ever find our True Purpose if we keep Hiding, Running, sedating, Avoiding?
Love you all have a Blessed Monday .
Growth
Message from the Universe
Today’s Law of Attraction
Angels are saying today
Daily Prayer’s
God, You are the King of Glory. The whole earth was created to declare Your name. Help my life to reflect Your glory. I want others to see You shining through me. Fill me with Your love and light. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Father God, please fill me completely with joy and peace because I trust in You. And if I start to feel overwhelmed, hopeless, confused, or fearful—remind me that You are near. Please make me aware of Your presence. Fill me up, God, so that way I might overflow with confident hope, regardless of what comes my way. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Father God, thank You for giving me Your Word. Scripture is brimming with truth and life, and I never want to take that for granted. I know that I am easily distracted, but I also know that You give me the strength to persevere. Show me how to meditate on Your Word so that I don’t disobey You. Teach me to prioritize my relationship with You above everything else. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Lord, thank You for making me a part of Your church. Thank You for making Jesus my cornerstone. Please work in me so that my heart and my life may be continually aligned to him. And set me in the place that You choose so that I may support my brothers and sisters in Christ and carry out Your purpose in my life. In Jesus’ name, amen.
The choice is clear when we ponder it but that doesn’t mean that it is easy. Christ lived his life as an example for us to follow, however, and gave us the chance and the choice to pursue life. Lose yourself in him, in the Scriptures, in God, and you will be found. There is no other way. Amen.