“Take Control” Blog #175
Does it matter what I think of myself?
Do I care about what I learn today?
What brings me into a peace-filled moment when derailed?
An interesting definition of Reputation and Character is this,
“Reputation is WHAT people think of me. Character is what Angels KNOW about me.”
Probably a good idea to think about; what happens to me with all the choices I am given
from the morning I wake up, to when I close my eyes at night and go to sleep? Do I
actually grow internally?
It was fascinating the other day to catch Elon Musk on the internet with his five year old son
“X”. The little boy was suppose to sit there quiet while his father was being interviewed. Yet,
this little boy stole the show. Out of the blue he stated, “When I am sad, that is when God
talks to me through the quiet.” He said, “I have to be honest and soft and that’s where love
fits in the best”. There was not a dry eye in the audience, including his dad, Elon Musk!
In the middle of my morning or any part of my day, when I get unrattled I am learning to
stop, take deep breaths and “feel Jesus’ presence inside me”. Here in the quiet, I decide to
make a decision ”not to compromise who I am” - it matters.
In Eugene O’Neils play, “More Stately Mansions”, there was a large segment of the play that
pointed to the dismal effect of a building that was being built - left unfinished. A
magazine writer who was talking about the play, used a great analogy about looking at
this apartment building and viewing a “life that never took on its potential, and went to
waste.” He went on to describe this, “when I was seventeen years old, I watched as a large
apartment building was being built across the street from where I lived. Sadly, within a
couple of months the Depression hit. The apartment building was beginning to take form
with six or seven stories to its shape and credit. There was brickwork rising at different
heights and windows carved out like the teeth in a Jack-o-lantern. Suddenly all work on
the apartment building came to a halt. No men came back to work on it. No money was
found to put the flooring into the vast cavity that stood empty. Every day the “newness”
was now turning into “oldness”, and so sadly, this happened without ever having been
really used. A few years later, the world began to move again and with this movement
came the wreckers. Nothing could be salvaged, not the windows that met at rectangles,
not the stone that framed the courtyard and not the blind foundation waiting unidentified
and uncorked inside the shell of a building that never was”. He went on to say, he always
felt wistful about all the potential, all the opportunity, all the quality that went to waste.
And so it is about each one of us. Inside, deep inside, we each have so much potential.
Each of us has quality and opportunity and the potential to do one thing regardless of the
age we are at. That one thing is to keep on “learning”. Each and every day it is my moral
obligation to continue to learn. I must learn as much as I can about “spiritual truth”.
Spiritual Truth comes to me through devotion, meditation and prayer to Jesus Christ.
These spiritual teachings transcend all material perceptions. They give me eternal
principles and this is where IF I feel derailed and come unglued, I can find peace. While I
continue to take one deep breath after another - I relax. While I ask Jesus to “Please come
into my life and help me this moment”, I am deep breathing and I feel HIS presence in the
complete total silence of the calm that embraces my every cell.
Can I “take control” of this moment and feel HIS Spiritual Truth now?
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