Ever noticed what’s going on around you?  Pay attention to life for just one day and you will discover something very interesting.  You will discover that people are pretty selfish and when I say people I am including myself and you in the people.  If we are honest, then we have to admit that yes sometimes “I am very selfish!”

Keep looking and listening and you will discover that people are searching.  You and I are searching and often, we don’t even realize it.  Once we begin to realize that we are searching, then it’s often even harder to figure out what we are searching for.

Watch close enough and you will notice that people are silly.  The stuff that we stress about, is usually not something that we can do anything about.  We speak of love, but we don’t really understand it!  The things that we think we are an authority on, we really aren’t very good at.

I am selfish.  I don’t want to be and I don’t really mean to be, but I know that I am.  I also know that my selfishness gets in the way of me experiencing all that I was created for.  Being honest about my challenge is the first step to recovery and healing, but I have to remember that it is just the first step and there are many more to take.

I am searching.  Sometimes I think I have the map and I think I know exactly what the pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, but usually it ends up being a mirage that this world has gotten me distracted with.  I am beginning to realize that a lot of my searching is just searching that tricks me into actually believing that I am accomplishing something with all of my searching.  If I am going to search that it needs to be with a purpose of finding what I was created for, because this is where fulfillment flows from.

I am silly.  Sometimes this is a good thing and sometimes this is a bad thing.  Sometimes my being silly is fun, productive and a blessing.  At others times, it is distracting, hurtful and totally un-beneficial.  I am silly when I know something, but do not let the something that I know impact and grow me in a positive and productive way.  It’s silly to waste life playing the games that we get caught up in.

What I know that challenges me in each of these areas is this:  We were created by love, in love and for love.  This changes everything, so don’t miss out on what your Creator is up to, by letting selfishness get in the way.  Searching is not a bad thing, but if we spend all of our time searching, then we miss what is really important.  Being silly can be fun, but it also can be destructive, if it causes us to have the wrong focus.

Live Love!  You will be glad you do!  Blessings!

I am not one of those guys, who has everything figured out.  In fact, the older I get, the more I realize that there is so much that I don’t have any idea about.  There is however, one thing that I am sure about.  And that is the reality that we get to choose our response to life.

We can live or we can die, this is a choice that we get to make.  We can love or we can hate, this is a choice that we get to make.  We can hope or we can despair, this is a choice that we get to make.  We can believe, but we don’t have to believe, it’s our choice.  We choose what we are going to feel, regardless of the circumstances of life.

If we want life to be uncomfortable, then life is going to be uncomfortable.  If we decide to take responsibility for our lives, then we discover a fight that’s worth fighting!  It’s not easy, we step up and out to take a risk, but we know that risk is the key that unlocks the door to growth and change.

I may not know much, but I know that I have a choice.  And I know that you have a choice, so how about you and I start to make better choices.  If we are the only two, at least that’s a beginning and we all know that beginnings are magical!

You are a special creation and you were created for so much more than just the here and now.  You were created on purpose and for a purpose.  A big part of understanding your purpose is learning that life beyond the physical is spiritual.

If you are living and breathing, then you are living a physical life.  If you are reading these words, then you are living a physical life.  Physical living is the life that our bodies live as they walk through this life.  Physical living is natural, what we know and happens almost automatically.

Physical living is not the only dimension of our lives.  There is also spiritual living.  When our physical life comes to an end, it is not the end, because our spirit lives on.  Somewhere deep inside of ourselves, we know this to be true.  We know that there is more than just the here and now, hustle and bustle of everyday living.  The question is where are we going to live our spiritual lives and how are we going to live our spiritual lives beyond the moment of now?

The answer to this question, actually has an impact on the now.  If we don’t think about the spiritual life.  If we don’t think about where we are going to live our spiritual lives, and if we don’t think about how we are going to live our spiritual lives, then we are going to miss out on power to live more expectant and impactful physical lives.

We are spiritual beings in a physical body.  This is the way that we were created.  Open your physical eyes to the creation around you and it will not take you very long to sense that there is something to be seen spiritually as well.  Listen with you physical ears and the sounds that you hear, will at some point encourage you to listen deeper, so that you might hear spiritual direction from a familiar voice.

All of your physical senses (hearing, sight, touch, smell and sound) will lead you to a discovery of the spiritual, if you are paying attention and have a willingness to experience the something of your Creator that is beyond.

Take some time today to experience life beyond the physical, because you were created for more than just the here and now!