A Journey to Wisdom

Footprints-in-the-Sand-Poem

One night I dreamed a dream. As I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to me and one to my Lord. After the last scene of my life flashed before me, I looked back at the footprints in the sand. I noticed that at many times along the path of my life, especially at the very lowest and saddest times, there was only one set of footprints. This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it. “Lord, you said once I decided to follow you, YOU would walk with me all the way. But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life, there was only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, you would leave me.” He whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you. Never, ever, during your trials and testing. When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.” #LoveYourJourney

Confusion breeds disillusion and illusion

In a place of confusion, I was lost, I was hurt, and I felt weak. Not broken, I felt defeated, I was tired, and alone therefore I felt lonely. Looked up and saw the horizon, but I could not reach. It brought me misery it brought me pain the confusion, disillusion, and the illusion. Did care, I do love, and I was feeling so many emotions of self-doubt, I gave up in believing. Wanted to be saved, I chose the wrong persons to save me. I thought if I saved them I could and would save myself. I felt ashamed of the choices I made, I had to forgive myself for the misery that I caused to self. I was never alone, I just did not realize it, until I truly opened my eyes.

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Have Compassion for Self

In life we all experience the good, bad, and the ugly. In the journey we fail to realize that our destiny or journey has been planned for us. The journey may change depending on the choice(s) you make. The choice you make will determine your Fate or Karma received. We sometimes wonder about tomorrow; we should not need to worry about tomorrow, or yesterday. We have forgotten the gift of today is a present. Just start today, be present. What can you do to have influence? Do we do something for our- selves or do we do something for someone else? We should do both. We tend to allow our flesh to make the choice and trust if you are thinking with your flesh, it gets the best of us. The flesh side always fails. The spiritual side always prevails. When we make choices, that causes pain to someone this is when GOD assesses your spiritual side. HE evaluates us not because HE wants us to fail; GOD evaluate us only because HE loves us, and HE knows we are capable of growing, learning from experiences and loving one another unconditionally, as HE loves us unconditionally. We go through the trials and tribulations, the gift through our trials and tribulations is the gift of “Wisdom.” We always want to know the answers to things that seem so unfair. The reality is life is going to be unfair sometimes; it just depends on the choices that we make. Sometimes we are lucky, and we get it right; or sometimes we do not, and it feels like a never-ending story. We forget we are someone, and we have chosen to be at this current place in time. Learn to have compassion for yourself, instead of giving compassion to those who do not want or need your love. I would rather have loved and be -loved for not everyone will care for you. Trust no one, trust in yourself always.

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Vengeful, Becoming Vengeful or staying in Forgiveness to others.

I have spent years encountering Vengeful people. The following is the definition of Vengeful. Vengeful: Someone who is determined to get revenge—retaliation against or punishment of someone for harm that they caused or wrongdoing that they did (whether real or perceived). Vengeful also means inclined to seek revenge. The adjective vindictive is a close synonym. What does God say about vengeance? Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. There is not much difference in the meanings between avenge, revenge, and vengeance. The three are all about inflicting harm. The easiest is avenge and vengeance, which are from the same root, only revenge is the verb to the noun of vengeance, so to achieve vengeance against someone, one is revenging. In my situation I knew better to put myself through the misery, pain, and discomfort. I thought if I loved enough or cared for these person’s or people, they would change. I can only say that it was not true for they broke. They could not see that they broke, and they chose to be vengeful for the mere fact that they were already hurt by someone or something else. My love was not strong enough and I sacrificed my well-being only because I was selfless, and I genuinely cared for them unconditionally. I found that they did not know the true meaning of loving someone other than self, they were too selfish and too egotistical to see the difference. Living is loving unconditionally; true sacrifice is self-sacrifice. The people that think this is weak of you, I am here to tell you this is what makes you strong and fearless, to face the darkness and still be in the light of forgiveness. What I have realized they wanted me to be vengeful so that could say I was not better than them. I am not better than anyone, what makes me different is I do know and understand the meaning of forgiveness, unconditional love, and sacrifice of self. I am not selfish. Nothing would be possible without His grace and mercy in our lives and in the same way that Jesus was selfless in laying down his life for All, we are called to do the same as he says in John 15:13 “greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for All.” Being selfless is not about what we’re able to get out of our actions but about showing the love of Christ through our selfless acts because just as Martin Luther once said, “God doesn’t need your good works, but your neighbor does.” Jesus tells us to love one another selflessly.

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Not Playing the Blame Game

It took failed relationships to realize that I am a great person with a compassionate heart. I am alive for I can feel so many emotions, people would call me emotional. Not true I am alive on the inside. I am not afraid to feel sadness, happiness, fear, and loss. If you block your emotions, you have lost your inner spirit, your soul. Your dead on the inside, therefore you do not care, about others or yourself. If you lost your dignity of self, then how can you say you honestly care. It is an action not a true emotion that you portray to others. You are the pretender; you are the one being fake. Have sympathy for these people and persons, for this is not living. Living is caring for others and self. We are not here in this world not to care; we are here to comfort and help one another rise from ALL things. This is what love is, and this is living life, this can be a beautiful experience. We live in a world where it is about self-gratification, selfish desires and people no longer care about their neighbors, their friends, or family. You have the choice to live this way, but you are the person who is selfish, lost, cold, afraid, and alone inside. I do not have many friends, but I do have great and good people in my corner, these people would not bring me harm, hurt me, steal from me, or take from me without permission and most importantly they value how I truly feel, they genuinely love me, they value my life, others and their own. Therefore, I have stop blaming myself for a person’s selfish actions. Choose to share your world with the people and persons that can feel, for in feeling, your actions and choices will not hurt, and this is loving people, this is living for one another. This is the purpose of LIFE.

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