Signs from God?

Like anyone who struggles through life, we wonder if God is out there helping.  We want signs.  But, will getting signs really do that much for us.  In looking for signs, we have to ask, “What God do we seek?”  Do we seek the God of walking on water or the God of forgiveness?  The God of turning water into wine, or the God of Mercy?  The God of Love, or the God of making fishes and loaves?  Do we seek the God of physical phenomenon, or the God of inner Light and Love.  Oh, sure, they’re the same God.  But when we’ve been shown forgiveness, mercy, love and more, how will seeking for external signs give us what we really want to know deep inside ourselves, when it’s love, forgiveness, mercy, patience, etc that we recognize within our deepest parts of ourselves?

Believing in Christ

We always make decisions.  Do we believe in Christ, or not? Do we believe what He said or not?  Can He really help? or not?  Do we have to understand His abilities for Him to help? or not?  In life, do we only believe in what we understand? or not?

We can believe in Christ, even though His abilities are beyond our understanding of Christ.

Who understands completely how all the different parts of the world work?  Any one person?  Like computers – who understands all the different parts of the world of computers?  Yet, so many of us use them constantly.

How many of us understand all the theories of physics or chemistry or astronomy and meteorology, medicine, architecture, engineering, music, etc?  Yet we’re involved with all these expecting “someone” to understand it enough to make it work for us.

Why do we then choose to not believe in Christ, in God, or in ourselves simply because we don’t understand?  Christ understands Christ.  God understands God.

Because we want to believe in something we can touch, or see?  What if we step out past our limits and we’re wrong?   To believe in the unseen is to step out past our own confidence.

We find that we had been holding onto a very small world if we step out past our own understanding, because our own understanding is small compared to what is out there waiting to be learned and/or understood.

Believing in something higher than ourselves means also believing that we can love more.  It means that we can care more.  It means that we can forgive more.   Who among us doesn’t know that we have a greater the capacity to love and forgive more than we’ve already done?

Many think believing is of the mind, but I say believing is of the heart – where love, caring, and forgiveness live.  The heart is where God lives.

Add God

Do we need a reason to love?
What about this reason – because loving adds God to people’s lives in that moment of love.
Do we need a reason to forgive?
What about – because forgiving adds God to people’s lives in that moment of forgiving.
Do we need a reason to be patient with others?
How about – because being patient with others adds God to people’s lives in that moment of being patient.
Do we need a reason?
consider – to add God via love, forgiveness and patience to people’s lives in the moment.

Because in moments of loving, of forgiving, of being patient or kind, or supportive, or encouraging, or merciful, we’re adding God to people’s lives for that moment. God exists in these acts when they come from our heart.  All acts of love, bring God into the world during that moment of love.  Where God is, Love is.  Where Love is, God is.  They cannot be separated.  One doesn’t exist in any moment without the other.

Still, we don’t always recognize this to be true.  We can sometimes recognize love to be present in that moment, but rarely do we think God to be present at the same time, as well.

The next time you want to have an experience of God, Love someone.  God shows up when we love.

Our Legacy

How we live our life while in this world, is our legacy to the world when we leave it. . .  whether good or bad.

Everything we do and think and say and feel and…., has its effect upon our own life and our world . . . which then has an effect upon others . . . which then affects others, and on and on.  This means that our whole life has an effect upon everyone else, no matter how isolated we are or involved we are.

The effort that we put into living our own life makes its impression on the world.  This is what others will see and learn.  This is what we give to the world, not just when we leave, but while we’re here.  It will just be easier to acknowledge when we look back on our life after we’ve left and see what we have given to the world.

We’ve lived our lives one day at a time and each day we’ve given something – either good or bad.  And it all then adds up to equal “One Life”.  Our whole life, made up of “one day at a time” days is our whole legacy.   Even if we ignore any effort, care nothing about anyone, think only of our self, and add pain and sorrow to others lives – this is our legacy to the world while we live in the world and after we’ve left it.

Or if we put forth effort to help when we can, give comfort, be patient, forgive, love, show mercy, seek to understand others, try kindness, seek joy, share, and many other qualities which show forth a spirit of unity among each other, – we can leave a legacy of effort, of trying, of willingness to give something better.

Maybe we can find a way to “Leave the world a better place than when we came into it.”

(Did you notice I didn’t say anything about living a “perfect” life?  Think of the perfect life as a “house built with a room for everything”, including a room for improvement.)

(©,2009)

God 28

God doesn’t help us according to our own instructions to Him.

(©,2007)

The Path 7

Effort is not a one-time step to take,

unless we want one step to be all that we ever take.

(©,2008)

Christ 3

At any time,

we can stop by the roadside and listen to Jesus teach.

(©,2008)

Prayer 4

It’s okay to pray -

Lord, help us who have these failings -

the same failings that are inside me, even now.

(©,2008)

Love 13

For some,

Love is the word they say.

For others, though,

Love is the action they take.

(©,2007)

God 27

Having faith has always been God’s answer to a problem.

Having no faith has never been God’s answer to a problem.

(©,2008)

God 26

Are we willing to forgive everyone that God loves?

(©,2007)

God 25

Feeling peace is not experiencing God.

Helping someone else feel peace is experiencing God.

(©,2008)

The Path 6

We go through change and transformation via the effort we make to heal relationships, …

the relationship we have with God,

the relationships we have with others,

and the relationship we have with our self.

(©, 2008-2012)

God 24

No one speaking of judging and condemning speaks for God.

No one speaking fear and retribution speaks for God.

The one speaking love and forgiveness, kindness, patience and mercy -

This one speaks for God.

(©, 2008-2012)

God 23

The good inside us,

is God inside us.

(©,2008)