Yesterday I learned that my twin sister is coming for a visit towards the end of March. We have not finished January yet and my mind is already way ahead of me in March.
I anticipate the great times we will have together, there is so much to share!
I am excited about her coming wiht her family, I am excited about all the activities we are going to do, I am excited about staying late talking, talking and talking...yet I can not let this excitement rob me from the joys that today brings. While I want March 22nd to be here now! I realize that if I don't let it come when it is supposed to come I might end up cheating myself from all the wonderful gifts each day brings.
I have not yet learnt to live fully my today, I am a person who is constantly trying to figure out tomorrow. Today I am reminded that all I have is today and that what I do with it is what will count tomorrow. So I am going ahead and enjoying this day which has already been fantastic.
I wish you a good day!
Friday, January 23, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
All is well with my soul
I am pondering the process of how one becomes religious. After a gathering with some of my girlfriends and listening to their concerns and their trying to figure out how exactly they can please God, I realized that in many cases religion can be born of the pure desire to want to please God.
The problem arises when we believe that we have it in us to achieve this goal which is, according to sripture unattainable. We out of our own strength can not gain God's approval or his pleasure, we need Him to be able to achieve this.
I have lived so much of my life in the pursue of finding out whether I was or not being pleasing to God and now I realized that this pursuit is vain because It has already been achieved for me and what is left for me to do is simply to bask in this love, to receive it each day, to share it with those around me, to never run out of it but to get re-filled to empty myself again.
The problem is that way too often I do the emptying but not the refilling so what I end up giving to others comes out in the shape of religious acts and does not flow from a refilled heart.
Religion tries to help the individual attain that peaceful state when you know it is all well with your soul. Love gives the individual the certainty that all is well with your soul.
I want learn to simply know that all is well with my soul.
The problem arises when we believe that we have it in us to achieve this goal which is, according to sripture unattainable. We out of our own strength can not gain God's approval or his pleasure, we need Him to be able to achieve this.
I have lived so much of my life in the pursue of finding out whether I was or not being pleasing to God and now I realized that this pursuit is vain because It has already been achieved for me and what is left for me to do is simply to bask in this love, to receive it each day, to share it with those around me, to never run out of it but to get re-filled to empty myself again.
The problem is that way too often I do the emptying but not the refilling so what I end up giving to others comes out in the shape of religious acts and does not flow from a refilled heart.
Religion tries to help the individual attain that peaceful state when you know it is all well with your soul. Love gives the individual the certainty that all is well with your soul.
I want learn to simply know that all is well with my soul.
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