What is Acceptance? What is Faith?

 Acceptance.  An amazing word, isn't it?  We all heard that word in our lives and we think we know the full meaning, but still we cannot wrap our mind around it when it comes to our personal lives 

It's just like forgiveness.  We know the definition, but it's hard for us to play it out in our lives.

Why though?

In order to fully accept and forgive we require FAITH.  Faith in our higher power greater than ourselves.

In order to have faith in that higher power we need to TRUST, too.  

Interesting..   so we need to have faith in God and trust God so that we understand how to fully surrender into acceptance of our life and have forgiveness in our heart.

Have faith, innocence of a child, trust of a child but with knowledge and common sense to back it up, and embrace our lives and the people in it, because it makes up the person we are today.  

Birthday Post!!

🎂🎂🎂🙌 Birthdays are special days when miracles happen.  After all,  life itself is a miracle; a baby being born is a miracle; every minute is a miracle.🙌

There comes a time when we get over that phase of life when we think we are invincible and realize we need to appreciate each precious moment.  

In the wee early hours on May 31, 2022, on the western hemisphere half of planet Earth (somewhere over North America) there was a major meteor shower that cascaded overhead.  I would have loved viewing it, but I was sound asleep.  I only heard about it on my newsfeed when I woke up at 4:30 this morning.  ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

May that be a sign of miracles and magic in my life.  A meteor shower on the early morning hours of my birthday sounds auspicious and beautiful.  I have to believe.  ⭐🌟

I hope I reach more followers and fans on my blog.  I will make it more interesting as days unfold.  First, I need some suggestions from you about what you would like me to blog about. 💓😋😍😁 By following my blog you will see some fun and adventurous events about to unveil in my life, too.

Stay tuned to more magic revealed🤗🤗

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The Mindset and The Way We Were

 

This year April 10, 2022 falls on Palm Sunday.  This week is Holy week.

In a long standing family tradition I went to Catholic Church to receive my palms.  I haven't received palms at the Catholic Church since 2019.  In 2020 the church was shutdown.  We sat inside our cars and listened to mass on our devices.  We went to church, but had to stay in our cars.  

I met up with a friend who was just as sad about the current state of events and he was on the hunt for palms too.  He found them in a vestibule area of a church about 20 miles where we sat in our cars.  

I went straight there to retrieve them and to thank him.  Rest in peace Chris.  He passed away in August 2021.

Now I sit inside the Catholic Church on this Palm Sunday and I try to remember how our minds were before March 15, 2020.  It's hard.  I can remember those times but it is hard.  I see the priest and a few other fear mongered people with masks on - STILL - and it saddens me.  I cannot believe they are continuing the show.   

The past year I went to a Baptist Church where fear was never allowed.  🙏  The pastor is only FAITH based and Jesus-centered.  It is all about the BIBLE and FAITH and JESUS.  There wasn't anything restricted or fearful.  There wasn't a mask show.  There was only love expressed.

I 🙏pray🙏 we can get back to the way our minds and thoughts and actions were in 2019 and prior. I pray the mask show can just end.  The brainwashing really penetrated through many mindsets, but I pray we can all get beyond it and remember how we used to behave and think.

I love my Catholic Church. I love my priest.  I also love my Baptist Church and my pastor.  I love Jesus.  I love my family. 

My mind feels pained that things aren't 100% restored.  I pray my attitude, mindsets, mentality, senses, my heart and love, and thought-process is all 100% restored. 

Dear Jesus,

I pray.

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Trusting and staying calm

 Trust is such a difficult feat.  How do we trust? 

How do we stay calm during a storm? Amidst crisis?

It isn't about wishing for world peace or wishing for absence of hate and war...  

It is about staying calm in the storm and how we can have peace and be at peace despite problems.

Well how do we do that?

Know God is there for us.  God is fighting for us.  God protects us.

We need to put all of our faith in God and God will reciprocate as well.

H O P E is something that needs to be in us.  Never lose H O P E. Ever.

It is like meditation and be aware of our breath.  The moment we feel ourselves stiffen with anxiety we need to let it go and surrender to God.  

"I'm so anxious and my body hurts from all this anxiety!!"

That is the first step of awareness.  Good, you know you are anxious.  Now, take a deep breath in... and hold it for as long as possible.  

Then when it is time to exhale, do so V E R Y  S L O W L Y and as we exhale tell ourselves that God is taking our anxiety and our problems so we can romp like a small child and be free of worry.  

Stay calm in the storm because God is there to handle it. 

Why Do We Lament Instead Of Live?

 When there is something we know we did wrong we tend to want a do-over.  This begins the lamenting process.  

If we yearn to be with our long lost love we tend to lament the past when we were once together and try re-piecing the mistake together the way we want...  but instead of lamenting the past why not be in the present for the future and just be with the long lost love - when we rediscover each other again?

Lamenting is an advanced worry.

Worrying does absolutely nothing productive; it only wastes our current moments from our already shortened life.

Let us learn to act in the moment and to be more proactive.  

Lamenting is worse than  regretting, because it is a mental vacuum that sucks all the life out of our heart and soul in which we become despondent and depressed.