Complex Relationships (Pt1) - Should it be this hard to love?
Love is fire. Love is unstoppable. Love is powerful. It's what we all desire to experience.
But why does it feel like real loving relationships are so difficult to find these days? The idea of love seems easy but why are relationships/marriages rarely successful in finding true deep love.
The short answer is - we have to learn to deeply love ourselves (our connection to God) before we can love anyone else. Nobody can fill the gap for us. It is critical that we first do this for ourselves. Only then can we learn to love someone else.
Else, real love will never be experienced alongside others, which is a sad reality that the majority of us face today.
Most, from my experience, who grow up in the christian conservative environment believe deep down they are a nice good person who will inherit the kingdom of heaven one day. Most believe that they are a good person and God will love them by sending them to heaven once they die.
This idea however has plagued the minds of too many of us for too long now because it's truly a lie. Nobody is good. We are all inherently evil when we come out of this world with the potential to overcome. Only after overcoming our ego can we start living a righteous good life. Most just don't want to acknowledge that evil self and would rather pretend it does not exist, that way, we never have to change. As in, never be baptized or repent to be reformed from within, which is the main point Jesus was making with His life.
Most call Jesus their savior but they don't believe that they, themselves, can become like Him. Instead, use Him as an excuse to forgive sins rather than an example to engage in destroying sins. To be a Christ follower means actually following Christ with actions. And i would bet that the majority of people here in america would identify as a christ follower, while in reality maybe only 1% are actually following Him with action.
How sad. How tragic. No wonder nothing makes sense and there is no truth or deep love alive around here. We are living in the upside down because with actions we are not truly connecting to the divine for which we came. Instead, we are connecting to this physical world and all the things in it. We idolize it with all our time.
We have truly turned our back on God and i am convinced of that fact, and the test of time will prove me right, though i wish i was wrong.
The end of times is here. Thank the Lord. Everyone better take a good long hard deep look at themselves spiritually and make sure they know where they stand. Else, they'll go down with the world at hand. No heaven just hell, God will reprimand.
In the last talk over Romans 7:14 I metioned not going into the weeds of what following Jesus' example looks like in todays reality. I want to go back to that statement and talk about its importance, though it is a difficult one to translate and grasp.
Only an open mind with a teachable heart can understand and figure out what it actually means to follow Christ. If someone is a true follower of Christ, their mind will grow to become a weapon where it can be used to attack anything in life. It's a weapon where you notice the signs (omens) from God in your reality, and you use those signs to make decisions that will lead you towards your true fulfilling life.
It's a process. It's a journey. You can't snap your fingers and become a Christian. You have to earn it by learning how to grow properly for good. You have to truly desire to want to know with all your mind, body, and soul. You have to be willing to give everything you have in order to learn how to live/grow properly. It's a sacrifice but its truly the only choice to make because you will become empowered in the best way possible.
We want to have power that stems from good, not evil (where we start). Evil is lurking everywhere and also seeks power, but its power is shallow and not ever-lasting. It will not fulill you long-term, as Its power is for the use of something other than good. We must learn how to tame our (natural/sinful) evil power and choose to use Christ's example of following good instead. Do not get lost in evil, it masquerades as good!
Follow the mentality that will get you to where your heart truly wants to go. Follow your heart. Follow your passions. Make the world and your community a better place. Sacrifice yourself for the good of mankind, it will bring you the most inner fulfillment and peace!
I met some new friends during my journey and ended up spontaneously kayaking/fishing the Toccoa river, which was a pleasant surprise, though i did receive some bad news earlier that day...
I received a "bad news" message and realized i would not be seeing "her" this week after all, which made me sad but it wasn't going to ruin my day!
I didn't catch anything this day except for good energy. The experience was amazing. I was alone with God just processing and refreshing the brain.
It's amazing how life works when you follow the signs correctly. I seem to always end up in these amazing scenarios that hardly seem possible. And i make my visions come true. Which is all happening without me doing anything but constantly responding to the universe in a self-beneficial way, which is contrary to how i was taught/raised over the course of my youth. I've somehow learned to respond to the universe in a way that took me out of self-slavery and into freedom. Which is an indescribable reformation.
There is always a chase for more, which is why i get so excited when i wake up in the dark of the morning to live another day. I can't wait to see what happens in what will come my way and how i will respond to it. It's a crazy game i play. And i love it. I learn so much each day that goes on. I'm addicted to it. I will not play any other game! I will not go back to slavery!!
Nothing i do comes from nothing. I am not the creator. Though my desired dreams and visions are appearing before me. It is all passed down from someone or something else (God). I just exercise freedom and the universe tells me where to go and what to do. And then i get constant peace because i know i am on the correct path in life towards heaven. Am i perfect in my decision making? No. But i in a way yes because i will learn the necessary lessons from mistakes and move forward truthfully.
If i don't learn from my mistakes then i can't correct them. And if i don't make any mistakes then i don't have anything to correct. And if i don't have anything to correct then what would i do? - Probably tear something down to give me something to fix. And I've had to do a major tear down before, but now i desire to build correctly where i don't have to tear down again.
I feel as though i am now growing the way in which my spirit is designed. And the future is going to be indescribable. It's my truth.
And the truths the only thing you'll get away with...
I'm not mad i'm just disappointed.
But the disappointment is hitting me so deep that it's fueling me to do something about it. And I think the most difficult part of all this is actually accepting my viewpoint as truth (I know i believe in what i say but what i DO is all that matters). The deeper i go in on my truth, the sturdier the ground below me feels. Thus, i am becoming more and more obsessed with my truth.
I can runaway and hide, or pretend like what i say is not all true. I wish it was not all true. I wish i could sit here and say, "i'm impressed we are building heaven." But sadly, it's just not the case. We aren't. And we aren't even close. But i shouldn't be too surprised. This is the story of man from the beginning of time. This is all we know about mankind. And we are choosing to keep the story on repeat.
Our only hope is in that individuals start to wake up to all this nonsense so that we can collectively stop. Stop bowing down to the devil and start bowing down to your Creator. He lives inside of you. You are center of the universe. To know everything, know Yourself. Know yourself and you will know God. Then, power is obtained and you will spend the remainder of your days fighting for His purpose (building heaven), not Satans (building hell).
Everyone has a choice - Find the truth of yourself (heaven) or look away and let the distractions of this worldy system take you to a real place where you never experience your true purpose (hell).
In this rant about science, I thought back to a conversation i had with an academic at the local university who made me realize yet another reason of why I dislike science so much.
Science says things that are too good to be true are not true, just based on the assumption that perfection is not real. Science cannot explain perfection, therefore it deems it not real.
Science leaves no room for perfection to take place, and for that reason I DESPISE it. Because it prevents one from shooting for perfection when the purpose of life is to do just that. To shoot for the impossible. To do the unimaginable. To chase the perfect example like Jesus displayed.
Of course we're going to fail and fall short. But the point of life is aiming for perfection and living with what happens in every moment that comes with the chase. There is no reward at the end. There is only an endless chase for perfection.
Science can only go so far. Science limits man.
Go beat science.
What does the leadership (voice) of this country care about with actions displayed? Do we care about individual sovereignty? When difficult scenarios arise and the chips are down, what cards are we playing and who benefits? Whose voice are we following/trusting with our actions? Is there a certain voice we all have to follow? Can the majority follow just one voice? How can we go forward if we do not agree to follow one powerful voice??
Can we argue that the true (power) leaders of this country/system represent our majority voice? Are they executing at a level we are proud of and can stand behind? Or are we forced to get behind it because that is our voice and that's just the way it is?
Let's open up the conversation as I see a form of anti-leadership where "our" voice has decided to take us a certain direction that i do not believe we truly want to go. And most just won't realize it until it's too late (just like we've repeatedly seen in human history over and over again).
Will things get better? If so, how? Who will stand up? How will people unite together if we are handcuffed to this worldy system (voice) that controls most of our actions. What will it take to turn this around? Or will we just continue to follow the current power structure until it destroys us where we have to rebuild. And if we do indeed crash, will the people (demanding individual sovereignty) have power/courage to rebuild and overcome? Or are we getting too far away from being able to respond?
Have we turned in our freedoms for the idea of safety/money in return? Is this current generation prepared to fight and rebuild? Will the next ones be ready?? Are we armoring up our future generations to fight or submit to this evil? Wake up and think about our trajectory! What type of environment will our future generations grow up and normalize to? Will it be a place of individual safety or individual sovereignty? Will people be harmless or will we be virtuous?
We need true Godly leadership! We need that 1776 spirit to rise again! We need to empower the individuals!
Creating an intentional family is one of the most difficult things to accomplish in life and It's not something that should be taken lightly. The responsibility that comes with bringing a human life into this world is massive, as ruining another human's life is close to the same thing as murder. Loving something to death is a real thing. You can kill a child by loving it to death where it never learns to deal with life and when it finally has to go out and face it, it dies. Because it's mentally unprepared. Sadly, many do it without even realizing it.
It's sad to see outcomes where family/kids were done for the wrong reasons, but there's plenty of examples out there and it's painful to see a true talent/gift of an individual die due to lack of proper training. There should be a true mission involved in life. And the mission is not just to fundamentally keep a human alive; it's to teach them how to learn to thrive on their own; to teach them how to exercise freedom properly, which is a massive burden to bare.
But just like with most things in life, the majority of people choose the wide easy path that everyone else around follows. They do it because it's a survival mechanism. But surviving is not the goal here - it's to thrive and live out the reason for which we are made. And to do it with all our mind, body, and soul. Not letting the fear of death stop us.
Our outlook on life dictates who we are and who we are going to be. The truth of good and bad both exist in our reality, we just have to choose which outlook we are going to follow. Either way, both realities will show us our truth by what we follow, one reality will bring a hellish lifestyle, and the other brings internal fulfillment through a heavenly lifestyle.
So, what does that heavenly lifestyle look like?? (Probably not what you initially thought) But it's a lifestyle that is essentially doing the opposite of what the majority does. It's the one that desires to follow truth and goodness more than anything, so it will look different in a world that suficates and despises the truth of goodness. In a world that is run by evil, truth and good is a difficult path to follow, and is not one we initially follow, which is why we are all sinners. But if we choose to change and battle our sin to discover the truth and goodness that lives within, we can find our inner heaven and live it.
The reality of heaven and hell are most definitely real. Both realities exist and we can all put ourselves in a mental hell very easily, where our dark truth becomes our everyday experience (hell). But we can also do the opposite and put ourselves in a mental heaven, where our truth brings us fulfillment and positive energy! That's the truth we want to experience and live. Not the truth of the mental hell.
We must fight to defeat evil in order to earn good! Nobody is naturally born good. Nobody was born naturally "a good person." Goodness cannot be inherited, it must be earned. But the way to earn it is not what we naturally want to do. It's a decision we have to make that involves going against the world and your old self (ego). It's a choice one must make using free will. We just need to understand the importance of this choice. Every individual needs to understand the importance of this choice!
Perspective is everything. We have the free will to follow the truth of bad or the truth of good. It's easier (at first) to follow and let the evil run wild. But our true home, our internal heaven, exists by finding and following the good. We just have to CONSTANTLY search for it by defeating the evil within us every day. There really is no choice here. Choose your reality wisely.
"Even in the darkness, you can find the light"
-D. Ramirez
What a day to get to practice in Augusta on Sunday before the conclusion of the Masters tournament. I felt like i was practicing to play in the tournament, or at least visualizing that i was.
The work is the best part of the journey anyways, but i get a sense that i will be playing under the lights one day soon. So every ball i strike plays a significant role in my life. It tells me my truth. And i have to live and die on that. I have to learn and grow in it. It keeps me alive but can kill me at any moment.
Fortunately, my truth is getting pretty good as i am very much alive...