Greetings Brothers and Sisters!

Thank you for visiting this thread and excuse me while I espouse (is that a word?) on a few ideas. I don't pretend to really "know" anything, but while I've been on this little journey throught this life experience that the Almighty has given to me, I've come to understand certain truths about my existence and would only like to share them with others in the hopes that we may all come just a little bit further along in our hopes of enjoying this life and sharing and spreading that "joy" amongst other fellow beings.

I'll try to keep this short and to the point without wandering too far off topic, but as this thread hopefully developes, we'll just see where it goes, OK?

So here goes...

In MY OWN EXPERIENCE, I have found that the problems I have encountered in life were in fact products manufactured from within myself. I have also found that during times of sheer joy and satisfaction I was also directly responsible for creating the circumstances that brought about those feelings of joyfulness.

The question becomes..."if it is true that I've created both my own calamities as well as successes, how can I focus on creating MORE success and LESS calamity?"

The answer is this..."As a man thinks in his heart, so is he".

When thru FEAR, I chose to feel as though I was a victim of life, I fought to "take control" of my life by fighting back against everyone and everything that I felt was attacking me. The more fearful I became, the harder I fought, the harder I fought, the bigger my fears grew, the bigger my fears grew,the harder i fought and on and on and on. As my heart became filled with fear, I became fear. I judged the world thru a looking glass of fear.

My fear made me angry. My actions sprang forth from my anger....and I lost control of my life. During the times when I was calling upon God to give me strength to fight my enemies, (and His, or so I thought), I had actually without realizing it turned my back on God himself.

I have now regained control of my life. How? Because I have now come to realize, thru the example of the christ, that since God is invincible, and he created me, I TOO AM INVINCIBLE. This doesn't mean that I can attack my enemies, it means that I HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR from my "enemies" because nothing they can do can EVER EVER EVER hurt me.

This goes for the mailman, the gas-station man, the grocery clerk man, the car sales man, the computer repair man, and the TAX MAN.


Because of this...because HE showed that if even death itself can be conquered thru LOVE, and further that there is truly no such thing as death,I am FREE to love my "enemies" instead of hating them. I ask God to forgive them for, "they know not what they do", because if I don't...I give in to thoughts of retaliation, and vengeance, and retribution.

All of those things BELONG TO GOD. And what does God do with them? HE ERASES IT FROM EXISTENCE.

We all came from the same place, and we're all going back to the same place.
Nothing in this world really matters anyway other than that we are all here to learn and create from POSITIVE thought, love as we wish to be loved and reflect back to God our GRATITUDE for this life.

Here's what I've learned...because I no longer hate or fear ANY MAN, instead I chose to LOVE, I become that which my heart thinks, I become love and nothing but love enters into my existence...my enemy (fear) is thereby conquered.