Archive for November, 2015
Trust – a conundrum
Trust – belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, etc. (Merriam Webster).
It’s an enigma of a word that just sort of hangs there … looming in the nebulous future that is never very far away, but never seemingly arriving either.
People use the word a lot as some sort of comfort, like “You just need to trust (or have faith).” As if that is supposed to be comforting … somehow it actually makes things more uncomfortable.
I think the reason for this is that Trust seems sort of undefinable … what does it actually MEAN when you are supposed to trust?
Specifically … what does Trust mean when it pertains to God?
For me Trust seems uncomfortable because in my mind it has always had something to do with waiting … just sort of sitting around twiddling my thumbs while I “trust” the hell out of whatever it is.
I had a breakthrough around this yesterday in my time of meditation. Trust must come as a result of some sort of action. Sure you can sit in a room and say you are trusting that you will find the love of your life … but if you never actually leave the confines of that room it ain’t gonna happen.
So we can’t really say that we are actively trusting God unless we are out in action on the Path that we feel God has guided us to. There is fear and uncertainty along that path … and THAT is where the Trust comes into the picture, but if we never get on the path then we are just wishing on a pipe dream … not having faith or trusting.
Living in Trust or Faith is kind of scary … because you are putting yourself out into the unknown and trusting that God has a plan and reason for asking this of you … and usually this plan is completely unknown and only makes itself evident in hindsight.
There are times where we question the guidance that brought us here, times we feel like giving up and times when we are simply fed up and angry and want to end it all. THOSE are the times when Trust comes into play.
So here’s the good news … if you are feeling any of those feelings and yet you know you are where God wants you to be?
Congratulations! You are actively displaying the tremendous courage it takes to be living out of Trust.
God is good … and the time will come when you will look back in amazement to see how it has all come about.
Peace and Love.
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Image by Gabriel Cyrus
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
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The Opposite Of
Life often gets measured out into two parts: either you fit into the expectations of others, or you rebel to make your own mold.
The problem with this is that, in rebelling, we aren’t being who we truly might want or hope to be … we are being the OPPOSITE of what others want us to be. Is being the opposite of someone else’s machinations REALLY the person that you long and hope to be?
Hell no!
This is how, all to often, someone looks back on their life and says,
“How did I get here? How did I become this person?”
We spend so much of our lives basically doing one or the other of these extremes that we miss the center completely … the center is who YOU really are. Your True Self.
You become that person when you are no longer running this way or that … forcing … pushing against. These things are all reactions. When you are fighting against something, or someone, you are not being your True Self … you are being the person who is knee-jerk reacting to that person or event.
There is no need for fighting. There is no need for fear. Rather than reacting to these things … STOP!
Take the time to go within. Connect with your Creator, and receive Love. Acknowledge what is happening, accept that it is happening, and just LET GO of it … of trying to dictate your will. When you let go, you step out of that mold … the Opposite Of mold … and can then move forward as who you really are.
There will be just as many people who don’t like this as when your were being the Opposite Of … there probably will be more. It doesn’t matter though … you accept it, and let go of it, and continue to move forward as your True Self. They will hate this because you are no longer reacting to them … even if you weren’t doing what they wanted, at least you were giving them something by reacting. Now they don’t get anything from you … and they will hate that, so they will provoke you even more.
As long as you keep following those same steps though? You will have freedom … it won’t come overnight. It actually takes quite a while because you have built up SO many habits, and undoing habits takes some work. It’s really pretty simple though, if you just stick with it …
Acknowledge the problem … accept it for what it is … stop trying to change it or fight it … and just let go … then move forward and begin the work of being your True Self. It’s still work … but it’s happy work … because it’s who you really ARE! 🙂
Peace and Love.
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– pic by Julien Vidame
Source: The Opposite Of
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
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Remembering How To Trust
I recently found myself reflecting back to a time of my life that I chronicled here, way back when. It was a time of having to trust even though everything within me wanted to take control … to make decisions and have things be what I thought they should be.
It is incredibly difficult to simply trust … to let go of all the complicated designs we create and live only out of belief that God has a plan … and that this plan is actually BETTER than anything we could ever conceive of.
I am at such a place again, although in a different way, and so it is good to look back and learn from the lessons I have been blessed to already have learned once before.
*** from July 28, 2012
LOVE … God’s Love. It truly is a dumbfounding, mind-boggling, overwhelm your senses Reality.
It’s not just the Love, however … it’s the timing of It that takes your breath away when you look back at the pockmarked terrain you have traversed … and somehow you made it through!
Around six months ago I felt God reveal something powerful to me in a time of meditation. What was revealed I was supposed to keep to myself, until such a time as I felt prompted to share it.
So I waited, and waited, and waited …
my oh-so-human nature chomping at my proverbial bit, sometimes agonizingly so … but still, I waited.
What’s more, what had been revealed to me involved several people! I thought, “There’s no WAY this is going to work out the way it was revealed to me!” Some of the people had seemed to disappear from my life!
But still, I waited … And just continued to focus on giving the unconditional love that God had told me to give … to all the parties involved. I wasn’t perfect at it, I messed up several times … but for the most part, I felt that I did what God asked me.
Suddenly this week I get the prompting, out of nowhere seemingly. I even did another meditation session just to make sure … and it was confirmed; this was … the time.
So I put it in motion. I shared what had been revealed to me, and followed through on everything exactly as God had shown me, six months ago.
The people involved reacted exactly as God showed me they would. I then focused on doing what God told me to do in response … deny my normal human reactions to their discomfort or even anger, and simply give unfiltered, unconditional love in return.
Does it seem stupid of me to be utterly amazed that everything … every single reaction … was exactly what God had revealed to me … except for the ultimate outcome which had been kept from me. I was simply supposed to do what I was instructed to do and trust that the outcome, whatever it was, would be God’s Will.
So I did … and the results thus far have taken my breath away. I could never have accomplished these things on my own … in any scenario.
All of this was accomplished by simply listening, waiting, and then following through when prompted. Way back when, I thought it would be a couple of weeks … but no, it was months. I almost had lost faith in what had been revealed … thinking it my own imagination at times.
Looking back … I am floored. God’s Love is TRULY all we need. Wow. In my post for meditation today, “Turn Into Love“, one of the quotes was as follows:
“Love is an undulating energy that moves through you, within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.”
Uh … YEAH! 🙂
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
Southern California, Northern California, Mission Viejo, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Marin, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Palm Springs, Long Beach
Pic from The Fox and the Raven
Source: Following Orders
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