Hold on fellow believers. The road is rocky. The weather is stormy. The light is dim. Negativity is creeping in. Fear even.

Assignment to you depressed creatures :

Go watch the movie : Secretariat





YOU TOO CAN BE A WINNER, PRAY AND TAKE HOLD OF GODS PROMISES

Here is a great song!!

God Bless. Thank you.

Im in NY. I dont know anyone in fear. Pissed, yeah. Fear, that's a great big NOT

Well said!

We have been conditioned to expect a perfect life in health and wealth, and when we don't we get frustrated and envious of those that do.

So what's the solution? First, we must understand that whatever happens in our life is never random, coincidental, lucky, or unlucky. Every adversity we encounter has lessons embedded for our spiritual growth.

The first reaction to any adversity will always come from the ego, and so we will blame, complain, and get angry not knowing why that is happening to us. And in our confusion we sometimes start to develop hatred for those who seem to have a better life than us, further pulling us into a vicious downward spiral of discontent.

Then it is good to step back and take a breather from the drama. Hopefully a short break from the drama will allow us to see that discontentment stems from a lack of gratitude. Could that be the lesson we are to learn?

Having gratitude is a huge part of our spiritual growth to love and the shedding of our egoic instincts. Being grateful brings more inner peace and calm because we won't get our buttons pressed so easily.

Those who are called awakened and enlightened individuals run into adversities just like the rest of us. Difference is they don't let the encounters pull them into despair, and being further along on the spiritual path they have a greater understanding of why things unfold the way they do.

Good to keep in mind we are not here randomly. We are here for an adventure of learning to grow up spiritually to greater wisdom and maturity. And through that long process, we assist with bringing love and light to this young dark world. To bring paradise here, not to escape from here to paradise.

And as we move further along the spiritual path to love, what we earlier saw as suffering and adversity are now seen as blessed and grateful lesson opportunities to gain more wisdom and maturity. This new mindset of seeing things from a benevolent perspective is the true meaning of what some people refer to as "reborn". A return to our true divine nature, and away from our false nature that is the ego.

Everything happens to help us learn to grow up to love, courtesy of the caring and benevolent God of pure unconditional love. And when we fail to see or heed those divine nudges they get stronger the next time around. Then some mistakenly believe they are victims of suffering or divine punishment. Do our best to sidestep from the drama and find the embedded lessons. And when we have truly embraced those lessons they will not be repeated, and if they do repeat as a test to see if we have truly learned then we will be wiser and more mature to handle them better.

Congrats to us on becoming evolving humans, having greater wisdom and benevolent maturity to treat each other better; more able to live with each other in peace, harmony, and cooperation!!!

find someone or some critter who needs you
caring for others who need you will keep those thoughts at bay

anger, vulgarity and lack of faith in folks...
I screw up each hour as well.