“Where Is Help?” Blog #176
“Am I ready to “update my inner self” now?
What’s helped me mature this past week?
How do I control weak inner urges daily?
When I put my mind to “higher self attitudes”, I find a different inner purpose for living. So
what is that like?
A higher self attitude is believing I can focus on a positive thought right now.
I believe It is always in my power to choose good over evil. Remember how to spell evil
backwards? L I V E. Kind of ironic right? Probably my biggest area of wanting to grow
internally and mature is to admit to myself “I cannot lie to myself about anything”. I want
to definitely meet other people in my life “where they are NOW”. Once I am resigned to do
that - it’s amazing how much idle time, wanting to fix others and blame = falls by the
wayside.
When I pray for discipline, my prayers show me the way to help myself mature.
I want, need and must accept the bad in my life that has happened. This is how my
maturity starts to grow. I no longer wish for what is not. I accept what I have.
One of the most beautiful poems about maturing ever written is the following,
“IF”
by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
but make allowances for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
or being lied about, yet don’t deal in lies.
Or being hated and don’t give way to hating,
and yet don’t look too good or talk too wise;
If you can dream, and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,
and treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
and twisted by others to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to,
broken and stoop and build them up with worn out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss, and lose,
and start again at your beginning,
and never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve you long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you,
Except the Will which say to all; “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings, but not lose your common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute “with sixty seconds” worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that is in it,
And which is more, you’ll be a Man my son!
This says It all about the way to live life day in and day out. I have chosen this because it
has such a powerful message to read and read again.
Can I find where my inner help of Jesus Christ is today?
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