Dear soldiers,
Thank you for this peace. Your presence enables travel, commerce, science, art, and good old American recreation, among other things.
I can never give you your peace back, should it be lost. I can fully acknowledge the fact that you have given your peace to me.
I cherish this peace.
Godspeed
The back cannot pick up a rock that the hands cannot hold. Yet the hands can pick up a rock that the back cannot hold.
Emotional loads work the same. The proverbial single piece of straw that broke the camel's back exists in our minds and words for this reason.
The older I get, the more I realize that all the wisdom the people of our time will ever need is already out there to be found. Our spiritual advancement will not come from new technologically advanced philosophies, but from realizing the answers were written long ago.
sometimes oog hold heavy rock for too long because oog already walk half up hill. dropping rock now feel like waste of sweat. but if rock break oog back, oog never see top of hill. know when to drop rock, friend.
love, oog
Evil would convince us that our previous sins are too wicked to recover from; we're already damned; there is no point in trying to be good. I disagree.
"..there's still time to change the road you're on." - from Stairway to Heaven
We can do it. We can be righteous, humble, repentant, and just. Today, but we must trust in God.
@fwmarqix Grill a man a burger and you feed him for today. Teach a man to grill and he's grilling for a lifetime.
Learning to cook new things is one of the best pastimes. Good ingredients combined with love, there is no substitute.
I don't know about BPD, but since you mentioned the lotus:
I strayed far from God and far from the way. Years passed. I exuded sloth. The supposed thousand petal lotus felt more like a thousand flaming hot needles as my crown.
It got better after some intense chakra alignment work. Feels good now years later.
@jadethebpdcoach A nurse suggested dbt techniques a few years ago. The intentional half smile has been an effective pivot point for me when I'm in a negative loop. It's good for being ready to give people a smile at the grocery store too.
I believe this is the way when false accusations are pointed at us. Strengthen and defend our hearts and hearths. To engage and acknowledge falsehoods is to grant perceived legitimacy. Have faith that lies will be exposed in due time, as God sees fit.
- **Matthew 26:59-60**: "Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward."
- **Mark 14:56**: "For many bore false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree."
- **Luke 23:2**: "And they began to accuse him, saying, 'We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.'"
- **Matthew 27:12-14**: "But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer. Then Pilate said to him, 'Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?' But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed."
- **Matthew 5:11-12**: "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
- **Psalm 27:12**: "False witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence."
- **Psalm 119:69**: "The arrogant smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts."
- **Proverbs 19:5**: "A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape."
- **Proverbs 12:22**: "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight."
- **Proverbs 10:18**: "The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool."
- **Exodus 23:1**: "You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness."
- **Leviticus 19:16**: "You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people."
- **Proverbs 6:16-19**: "There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: ... a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers."
- **James 4:11**: "Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law."
- **1 Peter 3:16**: "Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame."
- **Ephesians 4:31**: "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice."