Personal Meditation no. 194

“Your beliefs are your actions. What you say is just what you think.”

Embrace the Within.

I had no idea how much work the email deletion and unsubscription process was going to take during my day, however, it is going a long rather well. You get a lot of emails over a few decades of traveling around this planet especially when you are prone to investigating and wondering and buying and building and growing. There is a lot out there that folks want to sell me. Whether it be a product or a service, selling is never in short supply. Supply is always a victim of scarcity but selling is never scarce.

And that goes with ideas mainly in the realm of social media as well. Living here for any amount of time seems to qualify folks to speak truth about every topic on God’s earth and above it. I know that I used to believe I had it all figured out just as much as anyone else blindly stumbling around on this temporal globe. There is never a shortage of experts that have it all figured out. Never a shortage of blind folks ready to lead the blind into darkness. When my life was a mess, I somehow thought my mess was better than the messes of other folks too.

Now that I am less of a mess, because life is messy and complicated, I know that I am in no place to elevate myself. I didn’t elevate myself alone. It always takes a community of folks that struggle and support and encourage and elevate each other. None of my knowledge is unique or individual. I gained that knowledge through the same process as always, judging what others have said and done and evaluating their success. And if success is being negative about your life, if success is being angry about the government, if success is being scared of the next disease, if success is being led to react to the next narrative, if success is being enslaved to corrupt systems, if success is promoting murder and violence, if success is piling up fiat at the expense of your very soul, if success is mandating that others think as you, if success is mandating others act like you, if success is advocating for any temporal solutions, then I no longer want that definition of success.

Success for me is waking up each day. Success for me is making sure this body runs smoothly from top to bottom by giving it all the exercise and fuel and hydration it needs. Success for me is steadily working my way through the Bible, I just finished Leviticus this morning, and getting the big picture of the whole of that book and not just the snippets of scripture that typically just get tossed around in life. Success for me is simplifying things as much as possible. Success for me is taking control of my life. I don’t call anyone to do what I am doing because I know the struggle I had to get through to get here. I am not forcing anyone to think anything they do not want to believe. I am not forcing anyone to do what they do not want to do. Life is voluntary. Faith is voluntary. The Bible is full of folks standing up when God calls and saying, “Here I am”. And when God calls and reveals the working of God to you, you get the choice to ignore those works or acknowledge them. You get to choose. And the idea of choice is what the Bible is all about. There is nothing conscripted of us, rather we are given the opportunity to follow the commandments. We are given the opportunity to make ourselves right. We are given the opportunity to make amends, to agree, to atone. Your body, your choice.

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

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheWithin