There is a little quote I've liked for a long time: "In three words I can tell you everything I know about life: It Goes On." Everyone knows that, but not everyone realizes it. When I realized it, I became just a little bit happier, a little bit more calm.
But there is more that I've realized. I'd like to tell you about it.
Recently I received therapeutical healing of a rather private condition. It had caused me so much shame and feelings of being unwhole. Healing stripped off that shame revealing how it had manifested in my life as self-rightness and stubborness. It's been beautiful to experience the openess of my heart and mind to better my thoughts and actions! I realized that healing means growth where you never knew the need.
Our brains are powerful weapons. If we do not take them into our control, they will destroy us of their own accord. I realized the words from my own tongue can either banish destructive thoughts or induce them, not only in my own mind but also another's.
Do you know how important it is to be goal-oriented? One who has no lofty ideals of attaining some sort of prize or success becomes lazy, discontent, and defeated. It is up to no one but our very own selves to take the steps toward that goal. This can mean asking for help or accepting our shortcomings--whatever it takes--and especially keeping the goal in sight while remaining conscious of the fact that the pathway forward and up will be fraught with many terrors, disappointments, and mistakes. I realized that meditating often on heaven and what it takes to get there makes my days more heavenly.
Humans are habitual creature and our habits produce our emotions. Cultivate gratitude, prayer, positivity, healthy sleep patterns, proper posture, quality nutrition, soaking up sunshine, and good work ethics, and you will find joy in the journey. I realized I must identify as a joyful, virtuous, Christ-like housewife if I am to be one.
To be truly teachable requires heaps of humility. I have to believe that I really might have something to learn, and always will have something to learn. I realized that not knowing is the path to true wisdom.
I have not yet lived quite a third of my life. I have not faced the death of a close loved one, I don't know the heartache of wayward rebellious children, I have no life-inhibiting illness or infirmity, I have all the support I could ever need in friends and family. I realized that I do not deserve to have it as good as I do.
Can you realize your own life?
I cried writing this, friends, because my heart aches for you who have had hard things handed to you. But I hope that you can realize the Everlasting Arms underneath you, and press on to Paradise, with a song of praise to the One whose death realized our salvation from all this shame and pain.
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