Embrace the Within no. 62
Shabbat Shalom.
Not everyone is going to approve of the changes you make. And they don’t have to approve of how you live your life. That is an exceedingly difficult thing to act upon and think about and actually embrace.
I have plenty of years of experience in doing things and thinking things and typing things and saying things that most folks, at one time or another, find unacceptable. Even I found it difficult to become a lot of those things. I don’t merely talk about doing things. I am not all philosophy and rhetoric. I transform my life to align with my principles. That transformation is at times slow and at times dramatic to external observation. BUT it has always been a process and a journey for me.
These are not whims. These are things I have immersed myself into studying and practicing. I don’t sit around and talk about any of these things. I put principle into practice.
Why? There are so many examples of folks that simply live without principles. And I see how that brings scorn and disdain from the unprincipled. I have a friend that is becoming principled and I hear her get the same backlash as I once did about being principled. I see the same backlash from former friends that want the old me to return. It’s not okay to change. Unprincipled folks don’t want you to have principles. And settled folks don’t want to get better.
I am a narcissist for posting my push up updates to raise money for nonprofits. I am wrong in believing people are broken and in need of fixing. I am weak minded for following The Way of the Lord. I am being preyed upon by religion. I am judgmental for calling out “Christians” for being fat. And that’s fine with me. It has to be fine with me because that is the way that I am being led right now.
The more I study and build my relationship in The Way of the Lord, then the more I learn that I have always and will always walk this path alone. I don’t get to let other folks make choices. I don’t get to push off my decisions on someone else. I completely and totally own everything I have ever done and everything I will ever do. Personal responsibility and self ownership are great things to talk about and celebrate BUT difficult to enact.
Shavua tov.
Shalom to your home. Bless your being. The reign of YHWH is now. Be a blessing to YHWH and others.
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