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Wed, Nov 10, 2004 04:59:15 AM
walking in faith
posted: Wed, Nov 10, 2004 04:59:15 AM
..instead of running in fear.
this is something that i often have trouble with. i seem to conveniently forget that i do have an understanding, and caring HIGHER POWER that will take care of me and will provide with whatever i happen to need. this seems to happen when i am stressed or have let my spiritual connection lapse even slightly. when this happens i end-up running from whatever is happening and isolating into the cocoon of self-reliance.
today i am at the edge of getting the flu and am overwhelmed by taking care of what is in front of me and i want to go home, pull the covers over my head and spend the rest of my life in bed. although i have nothing happening that is that BIG, i want to run anyway. these days however i can go about my life with the FAITH that this too shall pass and i will be OK if allow GOD to work in my life.
-- DT --
this is something that i often have trouble with. i seem to conveniently forget that i do have an understanding, and caring HIGHER POWER that will take care of me and will provide with whatever i happen to need. this seems to happen when i am stressed or have let my spiritual connection lapse even slightly. when this happens i end-up running from whatever is happening and isolating into the cocoon of self-reliance.
today i am at the edge of getting the flu and am overwhelmed by taking care of what is in front of me and i want to go home, pull the covers over my head and spend the rest of my life in bed. although i have nothing happening that is that BIG, i want to run anyway. these days however i can go about my life with the FAITH that this too shall pass and i will be OK if allow GOD to work in my life.
-- DT --
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
2) There is always One who presides over the infliction death. He
who would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it
may be described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom
is it that he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,
does not cut his own hands!