Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Spiritual Life Coaching - Your Thoughts Are Prayers

By Jason Lincoln Jeffers


The Law of Attraction dictates that your thoughts create your reality. The more emotionally charged these thoughts are, the more effective they are at manifesting events. Talking, writing, and lecturing about negative, fear-based, potential "doom and gloom" scenarios will only increase the likelihood that they will happen. Furthermore, it empowers the fear-based energy for the collective pain-body to feast on.

Here's another way to look at your mind: Think of your thoughts as prayer. Every thought you have, whether it is positively or negatively charged, acts as a powerful prayer for you and everyone else living on this planet. The more you have healthy thoughts that promote, lift up, and inspire others, the more that is reflected back to you. Contrarily, the less healthy your thoughts are, such as those that come with doom and gloom conspiracy theories and "end of the world" scenarios, the more likely these will also be mirrored back to you as well. Your prayer thoughts are constantly manifesting your reality.

One thing I'd like to say about the conspiracy theorists that are out there (and there are quite a few). The pain-body always needs an enemy, a nemesis to project the ego's accusations, condemnations, and judgments. Without a nemesis, there is no pain-body, no reason to get defensive, to "prepare for war." Once that enemy is found, whether real or imagined, the ego tightens its reign over the mind. Then the march toward conquering that enemy becomes the ego's new mission in life. And when the enemy exists just out of the reach of verification--as it does with conspiracy theories--this lays the foundation for a behavioral construct that is self-perpetuating, and very difficult to resolve.

Paranoia is only a symptom of a deeper, underling strata of ego-based fear. Because the mind is always chasing a "phantom enemy," paranoia is one of the most difficult forms of shadow projections to heal. The Fox network personality, Glenn Beck, for example, is an individual who perpetuates these paranoia-based conspiracy theories which are at the core of his political activism. The massive audience of pain-bodies who tune into his show ravenously feed on whatever Mr. Beck has to say because it ignites the passions--not of the heart--but of the egoic mind-based emotions that are rooted at the core of one's very own survival.

Instead of promote conspiracy theories, the Next Human will observe what needs to be changed and with egoless, emotional detachment, move peacefully toward changing it. "Doom and gloom" theories that are based on supposition and speculation only serves to perpetuate the fear that already exists. Even if some of these theories are true, promoting them ad infinitum doesn't solve the problems that the theories insinuate. What it does do, however, is create a phantom name for the collective pain.




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Building the foundation of Christian Marriage

By Jay Franklin


Just what is a Christian Marriage? "We are generally confessed Christians that have chose to enter into marriage." Is there a great deal more to actually explain married life? This whole webpage is going to be dedicated to the undeniable fact that Christian marriage is really completely different. It is very important to read God's Word that people may better see the foundation of holy matrimony as He fashioned it. I am convinced that at least one reason we are unsuccessful inside of married life is simply because many of us do not have The Lord's vision for it.

Let's take a look at Ephesians 2:21-32 in responding to the fundamental topic previously mentioned. Ephesians 5:21-32 (Today's New International Version) Advice designed for Christian Homes 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, people have never hated their own bodies, but they feed and care for them, just as Christ does the church- 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a profound mystery-but I am talking about Christ and the church.

This specific Scripture gives a simple commandment towards the Christian Marriage: Wives: Submit to your own husband. Husbands: Love your wives just as Jesus loved the church. I found it intriguing that God set simply no conditions regarding this commandment for both mate. It is very important to remember that we'll each be held accountable for each of our individual actions.

Not to defend the wives even the least bit, but unfortunately I believe one reason why some women have an issue with submission stems from the truth that a number of us men do not love as Jesus. None among us will always be successful at satisfying this Christian Marriage responsibility, but it surely ought to be a target we try to attain each day. It is among the essential unique aspects versus a "worldly marriage".

Challenge: Verbally express to your mate that you want to spend the upcoming 7-day period paying close attention to achieving this God-given duty. Keep a diary of key experiences for the purpose of discussion at the conclusion of the week.




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