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Learn Your Lesson!

Have you heard the quote: ”Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”? From the best I can tell, this quote most likely comes from the writer and philosopher George Santayana, and in it’s original form he said: ”Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Santayana attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he studied under the philosophers William James and Josiah Royce. He later became a professor in philosophy at Harvard.

Santayana’s philosophy, in a nutshell teaches that ”History repeats itself!” Ancient philosophy teaches that life is a spiral that presents us with lessons and when we fail to learn the lesson life presents, then life has a way of bringing the lesson back around again and again, until we do get it. It may be in the same form or in a totally different form, but its purpose is always the same, it is to instruct, grow and develop us into all we are created for.

”What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” -Ecclesiates 1:9

When things in life are not working, then there is something for us to learn. Failure to learn has consequences and will cost us something. When something is not working in our life, then we need to take this as an indication that there are parts of our mind, body and spirit that need integration.

This requires that we take on our ego, because we are so much more than what we have, what we do or who people think we are. If we are paying attention then this life is trying to teach us something. When we get what it’s teaching us, then we are heading to an amazing place.

What is this life trying to teach you? How are you going to learn from your mistakes? When will you start making decisions to integrate your life? Where are you heading with your decision or indecision? Why are you waiting? Seize the now, learn your lesson and grow your life! You will be glad you did…

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Everything You’re Looking For Outside Can Be Found Inside!

All You Need Is Inside! Sometimes I like to be in a group of people and at other times I like to be by myself. There have been times when I was all by myself and I wished that I was in a group of people. One of the things I am learning is that even when it seems as if I am all alone, I am really not. God has promised that He will never leave me or forsake me, but that He will always be right here within me.

Sometimes It’s Tough! Life can be hard, difficult and a challenge, but that does not mean God is absent. Just because we cannot feel His loving embrace does not mean that we are not wrapped up in it. This is why God has given us the amazing gift of faith – ”the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.”

The Sun Always Shines! There are times during the day and night when we cannot see the sun, yet we know it is there and will shine again tomorrow. God would never turn his look of love away from us, but He would allow us the option of making the choice about what we choose to focus on, which is an incredible indication of just how much God really does love us. There is never a prayer that we will pray that God does not answer. We may not get the response we are looking for, but at the proper time, we will for sure get a yes, no or wait.

”Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” -Deuteronomy 31:6

God is everywhere, but most especially in our heart, mind and soul. When our thoughts are not His thoughts, He speaks to us in a multitude of different ways to try to get our attention and redirect our thoughts, so that they might travel to the place of peace We were created for. His comfort is always one prayer of understanding away, if we will just pray and believe.

There is nowhere we can go to escape His wisdom and no place we can hide to get away form His power. He teaches us from the inside out how to live from the outside in. He Who is Love created us in love to receive love, share love and be love. When We live in the flow of His unconditional love, We are delivered from our fears, pains and any negativity that would attempt to rob us of our created purpose. We can’t do this thing called life by ourself and the good news is that we don’t have to, because God is within…

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Something Greater Is On The Way!

You Were Created For More Than This! There is a longing inside of each of us for something more than what we know or have. Given enough time, heart ache and let downs and we slowly learn to train ourselves to live the jaded life of low expectation, but still every now and then, the winter turns to spring and reacquaints us to the possibilities that have long slept dormant, somewhere deep inside of us. And we can’t help but to dream again…

What Am I? I am a soul, living as spirit in this body of flesh with a fully engaged mind, which offers me the human experience of learning and growth. And with all that is goin on between soul, spirit, body and mind there is still a yearning for something more. Something from some where keeps whispering: “You were created for more than this!” Just as the grass grows toward the sky, as water flows to it’s lowest point and as flowers follow the sun, I too, seek Spirit as my source.

Always Searching! This seeking of Spirit as my source, manifests itself in a sort of restlessness that has me jumping from one thought to the next in search of the something deeper and more meaningful that I know must exist. I have searched high and low, in relationships, the earning of money, titles and degrees, the accumulation of possessions such as material goods, houses, land, clothes and cars, only to find that the ego always lets me down and leaves me with more of a hungry feeling than when I began.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.” -John 14:12

Created For Greatness! I know in my core that I was created for greatness and that my greatness comes about it my being and doing what I was created for. The temptation is to always be distracted by the lesser, the more obtainable, the worldly, but I was created for greater challenges that are not of this world. I am not in this struggle alone, my Creator is with me and has given me help in the form of spirit, which many call angels, which come in all shapes and sizes, and from all directions in this life.

Live And Learn! As I learn to open my heart, mind and spirit to this supernatural help from on high, I discover and tap into the greatness and my body becomes stronger, my mind more filled with wisdom and my spirit more yielded to the guidance and strength that flows from the secret place of the most high and I take steps to become the person I long to be, so that I can do the amazing things I was created and gifted to do, so that I might glorify my Creator and bless my brothers and sisters, as I honor the imprint on my soul of the Almighty, by chasing after the yearning of my soul as I follow the path planned out for me since before I was ever born…