Personal Meditation no. 183

“If we want to get rid of the bad apples, then we need to build better barrels.”

Embrace the Within.

Folks are so certain that they are on the moral side, the ethical side, the godly side of the situation no matter where their beliefs fall. There is a lot of hubris that falls upon folks, a lot of righteous indignation, a multitude of followers of their own infallible truths. If there is one thing I have had to overcome in the past fourteen days, then it is this belief that I am right. I was more than ready to always fight my way through social media. I had found the truth and it was my job to spread that truth far and wide. I was responsible for converting the misinformed and ignorant masses and lead them out of captivity into the promised land like some modern Moses. And I was wrong.

I was completely out of alignment. And what I have learned over the past fourteen days is that alignment of your message with your actions is important. I couldn’t be violent in preaching my beliefs to folks and be in alignment. I couldn’t talk about peace and abundance and attack the beliefs of others. I couldn’t want better for folks and treat them like shit. My methods were completely wrong like the methods of many other folks. The means are the ends.

And that took a long time of work over those fourteen days to accept. That the means and the actions we choose in order to spread a message are important. We can’t build things better on the same foundations of misalignment. Without a solid and level base, the system is going to just end up misaligned and broken like we have surrounding us today. We kind of need to consider what our base is when building our new structures.

I see a lot of folks still struggling out there and now accept that I am not here to save anybody. I cannot even save myself alone. There is a lot of thinking and praying and reading and thinking and praying and acting and reading and thinking and praying etc. that goes into aligning what I want with my purpose. And a lot of that is getting myself out of the way. A lot of that is getting the importance of me out of the way. A lot of that is letting the message be important and not me. And I think there is a lot of hubris that needs to get struck down about all this. There is a lot of humility that needs to get worked through and moved forward. So that is a balance I need to find. And for someone that is confident and so sure of their way, finding the proper way to reign that in and be humble about the struggle and the journey and surrender to the importance of the message is daunting. BUT, I am here to work on that in this journey.

I could easily get back on my box and preach to the masses in a manner that is misaligned and build on the already broken systems. I could easily find comfort in my righteousness and indignation for folks that are lost and struggling. I could easily be mean and spiteful for the rest of my life. BUT I am choosing to do the other thing. I am choosing to do what I am intended to do and to do it intentionally.

Maybe your means are just a way to getting to your ends right now BUT they don’t have to be. You can work on means that are your ends. You can work in alignment with who you are and what you want out of your life. You do not have to sacrifice the here and now for the future that may not come. We make plans for a day that is not promised and a life that may not occur while forgetting the abundance and joy we can have right here, right now, today. We lose our focus in this temporal world and believe that we have time. There is no other time than the present to live. And it is our choice how we live that present. Am I going to do things now to jeopardize my soul? Am I going to make immediate choices for a temporary future? Are we going to be aligned with our purpose?

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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