p.s. love Deepak Chopra

Your last comment “Keep searching” reminded me of something Deepak Chopra said:

“Seek the company of those searching for truth. Run away from those who have found it.”

I don’t know if it’s original to him but it’s excellent advice!

Robert

Right on General!

Robert

Once in prayer, I asked God, more or less, “Why can’t this part of my life pan out? Why the lack of friends, women, or fun…seems to be stressful dealing with people?”

God’s answer? “Don’t worry about it.”
Naturally, I was unsure if this be from God…it seemed too short and concise. I asked again, and yup…the same answer came sharply, “Don’t worry about it.”
I eventually threw a fit in prayer (I believe in full disclosure of feelings, emotions and thoughts with God). I said that this answer was unacceptable. I said that “How could I NOT worry about it? It is not like this is going to go away? This concern is going to stay!”

To paraphase His response (can’t recall exact words), “That’s the point…you believe it won’t go away, and that is why I said, ‘Don’t worry about it.’”
This was a big step, since my social life (in my opinion) always sucked! This was big, not to worry, to let the fear go…crap it was big! I digress…so, I was quite during prayer, then God mentioned that what I asked in prayer is sometimes not what needs to be addressed. In this case, my social life and why it had gone astray was NOT THE problem I had in my life. The wisdom I learned from God was that the anixety I had in prayer was the problem, my doubt was the problem…the doubt in myself to be a social, and likeable person was truly the problem. Thus, when I asked my question to God, the Holy One answered the question that I ‘should’ve’ asked.

This is my wisdom learned from the Most High, anyway…..

This wisdom carries onto another issue as well–one’s thoughts. If I may explore the idea, I was at Adoration when I learned further why I can’t focus as much as I would like on God (not merely in prayer but daily life as well). Quickly, without a beat, God’s answer came, simple and true, “Keep your thoughts with me, no where else.” Sounds logical, so intitutive one might’ve asked if I really had to pray or ask for such a common sense notion, right? Well, I saw it as a spin off of the “Don’t worry about it” as to mean “Don’t think about it.” In other words, your focus should be”NO” thought at all…thus, try in not trying (worrying that I am not focusing as I should). The effort was distraction because it relied on what my mind wanted to perceive vicarously from my thoughts alone; so, it was imperative find certainty and confidence to that I already rested with God, that I already had a focus on Him truly.

If you are confused now, then smile I was for awhile…took a few years to sort out!

AWESOME is God! I love it!

God Bless you all,

Cheers!

I think my last reply came across as agreeing with you less than I wanted it to – sometimes it’s difficult to discuss these things in few words.

Reflection while in God’s presence, allowing Him to speak will bring us wisdom.

Blessings,

Robert

god bless gene keep it going

Often our reflections on the past are limited to our own narrow perspective. If we are able to obtain God’s perspective then all is well.

If we’re trying to distill wisdom from our own interpretation of past events we’re really not gaining wisdom – we’re just setting ourselves up to repeat patterns of behavior – which will keep us from growing.

Kinda like Mark Twain’s wisdom: “We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot sove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

The key is in what you said “Pay attention”.

Just my two cents this morning!

Robert

god bless gene