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Yeah, Im just trying to get to the point where I see myself as someone who deserves to be taken care of. I've talked with other trauma survivors and we have a way of treating ourselves like crap. I had a discussion with someone on here and we were trying to figure out what self love looked like. I'm getting better so in my world it looks like quitting smoking, eating healthy, saying no and getting gas on the way home instead of in the morning when I am rushed.
The divine couple gives me the ability to step outside myself and treat myself like anyone else I love.
Quitting smoking is a good one. Sure glad I did about a decade ago...
Otherwise, is trying to become someone who deserves to be taken care of the best goal for you to try to achieve? Curious. I am not certain I know exactly what that means, but I do know we are all best to believe we should take care of ourselves. If that's what you mean, then yes. Keep working on that as we all do (or should) to some extent or another.
You are so conditioned to BEING the observer, scrutinizer, and questioner and associating it with your physical body YOU are definitely one who misses it! Your physical body is NOT doing any observing, scrutinizing, or questioning! Your Soul (or Spirit) IS!
Of course I am not at all surprised you would comment so, and also of course we see this sort of thing quite differently. Just as me being an observer has had me notice most of us view these matters differently one way or another. For all our very human reasons, but I think for all of us, there is a truth we can all share here. If whatever we may be missing (or seeing or believing) allows us to live the life we aspire to live, then so be it! What's missing, or whatever might be missing, why be concerned?
Or better yet, maybe it's nothing that is missing. That's more to my way of thinking.
In any case, it's very hard for one to feel they are missing something if they don't feel a lacking of anything. Right?
People can try to do things to feed their soul, but without doing it for God the way He says to do it, there won't be an eternal gain from it, and there won't be the receiving of the Holy Spirit for it.
People can try to do things to feed their soul, but without doing it for God the way He says to do it, there won't be an eternal gain from it, and there won't be the receiving of the Holy Spirit for it.
Back when I was a practicing Christian/Catholic, I used to firmly believe the same thing. Then over time I came to realize this is not true at all. For a good many reasons I'm not sure there is any point to enumerate or explain again here. Mostly just to say it's perfectly okay to believe otherwise, despite what lots of people like to argue otherwise. Not only okay but I'd say also more appropriate.
I was just thinking about the new head principal that showed up my first year of high school. He was a real jerk and wore a cowboy hat that had a plastic cover on it like you see on a couch. He used to impress himself as if he knew every soul in school. This happened at least a dozen times in my four years there, that he walked up to a group of kids I was among and he would go around the circle one by one and point at each kid and say their name, and every time he got to me, he didn't know my name, and I never told him.
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As the Buddha is famous for saying, "you gotta let that crap go."
I don't know how you came up with that. I was glad that he never knew my name, and it was quite funny when he got to me and started uncomfortably going uummm, uuhhh with a confused look on his face and I stood there silent, till he moved on.
He came to the school to be the new sheriff in town. The town and school was a story in itself, and it was because of a story that was published in Time magazine that they hired him. I did have a couple of run ins with him. And it wasn't like I blended in with all the other kids, with a muscular stocky build and long dark hair that I grew for 4 years from 7th grade till 10th grade, all the way down to my waist and then I cut it. Most people thought I was Native American and when they asked I always told them I wasn't, they wouldn't believe me.
He showed up at my 10 year class reunion and still didn't know my name. I was like an enigma to him.
I have lived a hard life and it shows now, and all the youthful looks are long gone. I just spend my time in my paint work trying to make things look nice for others.
Quitting smoking is a good one. Sure glad I did about a decade ago...
Otherwise, is trying to become someone who deserves to be taken care of the best goal for you to try to achieve? Curious. I am not certain I know exactly what that means, but I do know we are all best to believe we should take care of ourselves. If that's what you mean, then yes. Keep working on that as we all do (or should) to some extent or another.
I've quit so many times. Just did again and it took the sugar with it. Yeah! I AM someone who deserves to be taken care of, everyone is. I am not trying to become I am. Some people will understand this when I say I demand things of myself I would never expect out of anyone else. I was used to be treated like a means to an end so that's how I treat myself.
I don't know how you came up with that. I was glad that he never knew my name, and it was quite funny when he got to me and started uncomfortably going uummm, uuhhh with a confused look on his face and I stood there silent, till he moved on.
He came to the school to be the new sheriff in town. The town and school was a story in itself, and it was because of a story that was published in Time magazine that they hired him. I did have a couple of run ins with him. And it wasn't like I blended in with all the other kids, with a muscular stocky build and long dark hair that I grew for 4 years from 7th grade till 10th grade, all the way down to my waist and then I cut it. Most people thought I was Native American and when they asked I always told them I wasn't, they wouldn't believe me.
He showed up at my 10 year class reunion and still didn't know my name. I was like an enigma to him.
I have lived a hard life and it shows now, and all the youthful looks are long gone. I just spend my time in my paint work trying to make things look nice for others.
it is always good to read your posts chief, and inspiring too
My religion guides me in this one, and of course it's not for everyone.
To feed the soul, you need to praise God and ask for forgiveness (no is an angel and everyone has made mistakes), in peaceful and quite environment. With all sincerity. This is a continuous process that should be done multiple times a day.
And then if it results in you becoming a meek, docile, and a forgiving person who has mercy for other human beings, he gives more and takes less, then your soul is getting fed.
Physical and spiritual food go hand in hand because one's soul must eat literal food - Deuteronomy 12:20
Yes, all can benefit from 'spiritual' food to feed the soul - Hebrews 5:12-14.
Starting with the 'milk' of God's Word, and then to advance to the more 'meaty' parts.- Proverbs 2:10-11
In other words, don't remain ' green ' but press on to spiritual mature feeding.- Matthew:16:26
Remember that one does Not go back to being immature but like a ripe fruit that can go bad it does not return to being green/immature fruit but will become rotten, and then destroyed. - Acts 3:23
Back when I was a practicing Christian/Catholic, I used to firmly believe the same thing. Then over time I came to realize this is not true at all. For a good many reasons I'm not sure there is any point to enumerate or explain again here. Mostly just to say it's perfectly okay to believe otherwise, despite what lots of people like to argue otherwise. Not only okay but I'd say also more appropriate.
it is always good to read your posts chief, and inspiring too
It is nice to hear some kind words.
After reading your post, I started thinking of inspiration. Inspiration is a big part of life. I always feel like I must build stuff. And when I see colors I always want to paint something.
I figure the inspiration of seeing a final product carries a person through everything they must face. Most of my inspirations are positive in nature, and in this world there are many corrupt inspirations.
I love inspiration from God because I can see where it leads. Plants grow toward the light of the sun.
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