Saturday 23 August 2008

Question ?

So my question is this - how to know when you are okay and enough -
that Life accepts you ... How do you know when to stop trying and just
fall into being without feeling guilt and blame, instead a deep sense
of acceptance for yourself and how you're doing life ... Is this still
living consciously and awake and with truth? ... How to feel you're
living truthfully, and flowing like water in each present .... how?
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Johannes said...

The thing is, our hearts actually seek peace with God, and that's not something the world or anything in it can supply; it only reflects what it is looking at. As do we.

Our fate is bound up in the fate of creation, and the more conscious and awake I am, the more sensitive I will be to the pain of creation, and my share in it. The natural reaction is to want to save it, to be the change I want to effect, yet my failures only compound its woes and add to my guilt. I end up feeling like water trying to quench a parched desert, consumed by its insatiable need, insufficient, unable to even save myself from being swallowed by it.

But God answered my unspoken prayers even before I was born, by providing a separate peace that doesn't depend on my power or my circumstances. Holding on to my own strength only feeds into a culture of control that brings more misery. The only alternative is to let go and accept that God grants peace in spite of myself or anyone, at great cost to himself.

The idea that God gave up his divinity to serve me is humbling, inspiring, eye-opening. If such a God has accepted me unconditionally and forgiven my failings, what rejection and what failure could ever separate me from him? It frees me from the pressure and anxiety of finding myself anywhere but where God's image is reflected.

It is only in the image of peace that peace can be found; we are empowered by our sacrifices, not our desires.

25 August 2008 at 12:38

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