From the heart part 2
In life we encounter what we may call people that bring nothing good to our lives. Understand we might also be that person to some one else. However I wonder what would happen if we took the time to find the good in all situations. Don't stop reading yet, I think my writing from the heart may bring some light to what I am talking about.
I bet there is someone out there that you hate, but it isn't so much the person that is the problem it is the fact that you hate. Think about that for a minute. I know that we get hurt, homes get broken, wrong politicians get elected, jobs get lost, etc but our choice to hate does not help it only exacerbates an already bad situation.
I often think about people that have come into my life that seemingly brought nothing but pain and confusion. Then I reflect back and see the wisdom and grace disguised that I missed at the time. Bad moments are not always our choice, maybe even bad days or weeks are not either, but a bad life is our choice. When we live a life blaming others for our plight we miss the grace that is certainly there.
Good people do bad things, but like I wrote last week that does not make them bad people. Just think if everyone you come in contact with knew all your deep dark secrets and thoughts, how would they feel about you? Love is a complicated emotion yet it can be boiled down to simplicity by having faith in your own miraculous existence. You see you were not created to hate you were created to love.
We often judge people by what they bring to our lives never considering what we bring to theirs. You would not be who you are now if it weren't for everything that has gone before you. Life is an intricate balance of experience and wisdom. We only gain that by sticking our hand in the fire. We do not get it by what others try to teach us, which means that all experiences good or bad help make us who we are.
For some strange reason we love to say "I tried to tell them but they would not listen", or "they got exactly what they deserved", and so on and so on. We place ourselves on a pedestal of knowledge forgetting that we gained that through making our own mistakes. Each of us has to blaze our own trail but none of us has to hate others along the way. It is ok to attend different churches, or vote for different parties, it is ok to be yourself in a world that tries to mold you into something else. It is not ok however to create an air of bitterness, hate, and division when we should be building bridges.
We all have dirt on our hands and blemishes on our record, no one is without sin, yet we tend to judge people harshly when they make a mistake that we allow to effect us. I recall a few years back a person that was hurting emotionally and spiritually, she found a mentor that guided her along her path to find her spiritual peace. After many months she fell in love with a church, joined it and became a wonderful participating member. Fast forward a couple years and this same lady found out that the person that guided her had some dark secrets that made her fall from grace. Forgetting how she helped her find her way she now only recalls the bad this lady did. I think if God ever tested our resolve it would be in situations like that. We have people help us and then when we find out that their record is not perfect we lash out in hatred instead of lending an understanding hand. We call it justice but I think God calls it sadness.
You see in the end all that matters is that you love. Call it what you want, color it any hue you desire but at the end of this life trust me love is all that makes the difference. Forgiveness paves the way for love to exist. Once love truly exist hope makes life worth living. Without forgiveness love can't exist and without love there is no hope and when there is no hope life has no meaning.
I hope you see where I am going with this. We all are human and we all fall. Find the goodness and wisdom that exist in every facet of life and it will make each day better. If we had to describe ourselves as either wheat or weed I would hope we could say wheat. But if we describe others as weeds we ourselves are just like them. It takes us all living together and loving each other to make this world a better place. I plan to do my part starting today and I hope you do too. Life is worth living when forgiveness, love, and hope exist.
peace to you
Dale
I bet there is someone out there that you hate, but it isn't so much the person that is the problem it is the fact that you hate. Think about that for a minute. I know that we get hurt, homes get broken, wrong politicians get elected, jobs get lost, etc but our choice to hate does not help it only exacerbates an already bad situation.
I often think about people that have come into my life that seemingly brought nothing but pain and confusion. Then I reflect back and see the wisdom and grace disguised that I missed at the time. Bad moments are not always our choice, maybe even bad days or weeks are not either, but a bad life is our choice. When we live a life blaming others for our plight we miss the grace that is certainly there.
Good people do bad things, but like I wrote last week that does not make them bad people. Just think if everyone you come in contact with knew all your deep dark secrets and thoughts, how would they feel about you? Love is a complicated emotion yet it can be boiled down to simplicity by having faith in your own miraculous existence. You see you were not created to hate you were created to love.
We often judge people by what they bring to our lives never considering what we bring to theirs. You would not be who you are now if it weren't for everything that has gone before you. Life is an intricate balance of experience and wisdom. We only gain that by sticking our hand in the fire. We do not get it by what others try to teach us, which means that all experiences good or bad help make us who we are.
For some strange reason we love to say "I tried to tell them but they would not listen", or "they got exactly what they deserved", and so on and so on. We place ourselves on a pedestal of knowledge forgetting that we gained that through making our own mistakes. Each of us has to blaze our own trail but none of us has to hate others along the way. It is ok to attend different churches, or vote for different parties, it is ok to be yourself in a world that tries to mold you into something else. It is not ok however to create an air of bitterness, hate, and division when we should be building bridges.
We all have dirt on our hands and blemishes on our record, no one is without sin, yet we tend to judge people harshly when they make a mistake that we allow to effect us. I recall a few years back a person that was hurting emotionally and spiritually, she found a mentor that guided her along her path to find her spiritual peace. After many months she fell in love with a church, joined it and became a wonderful participating member. Fast forward a couple years and this same lady found out that the person that guided her had some dark secrets that made her fall from grace. Forgetting how she helped her find her way she now only recalls the bad this lady did. I think if God ever tested our resolve it would be in situations like that. We have people help us and then when we find out that their record is not perfect we lash out in hatred instead of lending an understanding hand. We call it justice but I think God calls it sadness.
You see in the end all that matters is that you love. Call it what you want, color it any hue you desire but at the end of this life trust me love is all that makes the difference. Forgiveness paves the way for love to exist. Once love truly exist hope makes life worth living. Without forgiveness love can't exist and without love there is no hope and when there is no hope life has no meaning.
I hope you see where I am going with this. We all are human and we all fall. Find the goodness and wisdom that exist in every facet of life and it will make each day better. If we had to describe ourselves as either wheat or weed I would hope we could say wheat. But if we describe others as weeds we ourselves are just like them. It takes us all living together and loving each other to make this world a better place. I plan to do my part starting today and I hope you do too. Life is worth living when forgiveness, love, and hope exist.
peace to you
Dale
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