Posted by rayww on July 31, 2008, at 0:46:02
In reply to Re: Sex, Faith, Divorce...Anyone Relate?, posted by sassyfrancesca on July 22, 2008, at 15:11:35
I'm sorry if I didn't validate you in the way you needed. Perhaps it is my "me tough" upbringing. There are a couple of things (belief statements) I believe about life, that help my present. One is "everything from my past has been for my best good". Can you say that out loud? I figure if I haven't learned important things from my own experience, or the package which I was dealt, then my life has been wasted. I'm all for turning the negative into a positive somehow. Through your writing you are doing just that too.
I can see many positives in my stroke, and I try not to focus on the other side. I need more rest than before, and as long as I take it once in awhile I'm all right. I have a slower pace, and I can really enjoy my work if I take it slow. It's when things get out of control, or when I feel too many demands that I start to melt away.
My brothers destroyed brain cells through drugs. I always stayed away from drugs, but I have destroyed brain cells now too. Is that fair? My mother destroyed brain cells when she suffered a brain tumor. There is a huge difference between dark and light beings. A person with destroyed cells can radiate light. Light is faith.
Faith can keep you above any crisis, both during it and after it has passed. The important thing is to never let go of it. You have to feed faith daily to keep it alive in you. Hope for a better place and a better world. Charity will come of hope and faith, because that is the vehicle through which we share. Faith, Hope, and Charity, the crux of the Gospel.
If you hope for a better place and find it, you have made the world a little bit better. If everyone hoped for a better world, and did what they could to improve their own spot, the world would be a better place. Once your own world is better, you reach out to others, and round and round we go.
You are doing that through your work and your website, perhaps more than you realize.
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