“Distant Damage” Blog #69
So many of us are afraid to live HIS truth.
We run the other way, We distance ourselves.
We find different damage.
The escape begins day in and day out, above all, we do not come out of our safe place.
Easy to hide out at home. Shove honest feelings far away, refusing to tell others what’s
unsaid. Yet, we are suppose to be Ministers to one another in and of truth. Know this to
be true: The enemy prince of darkness has no hold or power over us! Feel truth
internally. The heart says DO the right thing. Then the head rationalizes, “It’s just plain
futile”. This is how dark habits form. Days, weeks, months and years go by, creating
distant damage. Emeshed in a distorted truth is ones lonely reality. What is left is
hidden halves of ourselves. So we exist judging and blaming and alone. Actually we
continue to make chiseled choices over and over again. Head, not the heart, takes
charge. We become OF the world, not spiritual beings IN the world. See how tricky life
can become? Yet, no one person is meant to stay in darkness.
One always is given choice. Living with people in darkness, refusing the light, only brings
in more darkness. We are all meant to be healthy, seek light and grow!
“Our bodies ARE the Temple of God.”
So, I choose people to be in my life wisely. I’m checking now, I am always checking, is
my world light-filled? Is there blame, resentment, gossip? These are dark, material
weapons that only appear to work. They camouflage truth with an umbrella of illusion.
This makes me look at life from a distance, and my life eventually becomes cold,
isolated, intolerable. This is all temporary comfort, my friend. IF in darkness, this is where
I hide out. Been there, done that. I will not go back. I remind myself how short life truly
is. There is an old saying, “You will never see a hearse with a luggage rack on it”.
This means essentially - you cannot take anything with you when you leave. Therefore,
we are all built to do the right thing now. Unafraid, I must do what counts.
Because HE is watching me.
There are healthy ones out there. Healthy, honest, spiritual people. People that are
loving, supportive and good. I go and find them. I identify with them. I change my
attitude slowly each day. I want to be authentic, forgiving and good too. Above all, I
want to have a spiritual approach to all of my life and pray each day,
“Dear Lord, Let thy will NOT my will be done today”.
Leaving a damaged past behind, I seek healthy minds who have lives that work. These
are the ones that KNOW good triumphs over evil! Therefore, I understand that “like
minds find and know each other, they give support to each other”!
Now at a triangular point in my life, I admit who, what and why I refused to change.
I shed the outer, unwanted shell of myself as an empty cocoon. I go on to memorize this
SERENITY PRAYER
“GOD GRANT ME THE WISDOM TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE,
THE COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS THAT I CAN,
AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE”.
Moving quickly, I do not look back, and realizing my new start, I pray for discipline,
discernment and detachment. The dark zone is now gone. This life I am walking into
becomes lighter, brighter and manageable. For HE is the key to shedding my distant
darkness. Hands together I pray:
“Thank you, Dear Lord, for my healthy life”
I know now; I can pick up the phone, call a family member if years have gone by, I can
show by my words that I have kindness in my resolve. I have confidence and
conviction. I am willing to be tested by different people, yet still stay strong. Even
though a family member, or friend has not been there for me, I can say what needs to
be said firmly in forgiveness, move on and hang up. From a distance God whispers in
my ear, “I am in your heart, its time to start over, leave the distant darkness with not
one regret”.
“Can I remove darkness from my distant past?”
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