To Be Punished or Polished...

That is the Question

How many of you find yourself crashing against the rock of life as you navigate the sea of life? How many of you are sinking and struggling in the water, gasping and getting mad at the ocean?
Now, it can be reasonably assumed that we are going to have thousands and thousands of more experiences in this life, so doesn’t it make easy sense, perfect sense to find out everything we can about the boat itself and about the sea and about sailing conditions, about the weather?
Wouldn’t it be the mark of intelligence to say I’m going to learn all about myself, the boat and the sea which is life in order to avoid the rocks and be able to handle the storms, so that I am stronger than the storm? Now you are not stronger than the storm, the storms are stronger than you. Even a little ten mile an hour wind can upset you, throw you off course, make you clutch the wheel and wonder whether you are going to get through it or not.

Wisdom and knowledge both together can improve our navigational skills. VH

Guy Finley: Our stressful, pain-filled experiences are not caused by people or events but by our reactions to them. And yet, if we will honestly examine the way we presently question our defeats, here's what we see... [continued]

"It may not be my way

It may not be thy way,

But sure in His own way

The Lord will provide."
ECH

There is no love but God's, and all of love is His. There is no other principle that rules where love is not. Love is a law without an opposite. There can never be a difference in what you really are and what love is. Seek not within the world to find your Self. Love is not found in darkness and in death. He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of love. In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach love's meaning to your clean and open mind. We leave the past behind us, nevermore to be remembered. And we raise our eyes upon a different present, where a future dawns unlike the past in every attribute. The world in infancy is newly born.