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I used to tressure life. All the rules that contribute to a polite society and heathy life impressed me greatly. Now all I see is us behaving like violent brats.

This concnerns me. I know that our current behaviors are only going to lead to destruction. However, since I no longer have a God to pray to I do not know what to do.

Internally, I still want to see something pure and decent in life. All of us have to be doing really bad if the degree of evil is so high.

One thing I can tell you is that I know God to be real. My discontent with Him does not contribute to me discounting his existance.

Moreover, this week I had one of my all time spiritual questions answered. I had always wondered what happened to people that did not follow God's instructions.

This week I found out that those that do no accept Jesus Christ will go to hell. When Jesus Christ comes again, one of the things he will do is to cast satan, his servants, and the souls in hell into the lake of fire for eternity.

I thought I was going to be able to finish of this miserable life in death and that would be the end of it. However, because I know God to be true and willing accept Jesus Christ as my savior I will have to meet Christ in heaven and answer for my disobedience.

I do not think it is wrong to want to work. I see work as healthy. However, I am asked to place my total trust in Christ.

I interpret this as staying home and waiting for Christ to provide. I did that once and I was without electricity for three months. That is how long it took to save enough to get it reconnected.

I wish I knew what they wanted. It is getting harder to keep fighting when everything turns in to a battle. I cannot even say any more that I have any desires or wants.

In addition, I am sad for the world. I know people do not want to be living a tortured experience. The thought that it has more to do with the level of evil in the world than people's true nature leaves me unsettled.

Last night I told God agian that I thought it is wrong to condem people when they are not truely aware of what is going on.

The last 30 years have been hard on people's psyche. To many liberties and to many things have happened.

Where are the people that were suppose to give us a fair sense of how the world works?

Where are the people who through been good people and treating us nice could of contributed to our sense of security and well being?

Why is it that today after being victims of a disfunctional world we have to pay with our sanity and our peace and tranquility?

If we have done everything to offend God how do we get back to when we loved and admired Him?

Or is our insolence the factor contributing to a permanent separation from God?

Comments
on May 12, 2004
Oh my dear confused one - my heart goes out to you.

And, I hate to be the one to burst your bubble, but god has nothing to do with the state of the world. This is not about good or evil, who's concept of god is correct, faith in Jesus, personal saviours, etc.

YOU have a true and compassionate heart and you don't have to feel miserable nor feel that you have failed.

We each hold the power to change our lives and it's up to us to not only realize it but APPLY it. Face those things that you gave away along the path you've chosen but - it's up to you to take your power back.

I believe all the people and experiences, the things we attract into our lives, are actually reflecting back as part of us - much as a mirror would. Heavy things to consider, but basically it all boils down to this.

You get what you concentrate upon. You get back what you think. You get back what you feel. You create everything in your life with your thoughts, your emotions, and your desires! By focusing on the lacks, and most of all your fears, that's what you're saying you want!

So ask yourself - what do YOU want to create, where in the world do YOU want to go today and how are YOU writing the script?

As a wise person once said: Remember, no matter where you go there you are. You will NOT find yourself by running from teacher to teacher, from book to book. You will NOT meet yourself through following any particular specialized method of meditation. Only by LOOKING QUIETLY WITHIN the Self can your own reality be experienced with those connections that exist between the present or immediate self and the inner identity that is multidimensional.

SOUL is NOT something that you have. IT IS WHAT YOU ARE. It is your most intimate powerful inner identity --- IS and MUST be forever changing. It is alive, responsive, curious. It forms the flesh and the world that you know. It is in the STATE OF BECOMING.

Or if that's too hard to understand, maybe we all should try contemplating this:

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go....
OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!

- Dr. Suess -