DAILY OM...Finding Unqualified Happiness

 

 

 

If Only

Since most of our experiences are rooted in cause and effect, we naturally want to justify our contentment. We envision grand circumstances, stating that if only we could achieve this goal or obtain that possession, we would finally be in a position to attain happiness.

As a result, satisfaction is always just out of reach and the very notion of grabbing hold of it seems like nothing more than a pipe dream. But the truth is that sincere contentment and fulfillment are never wholly the result of external events or situations. Though life’s joyful moments can ignite the spark of contentment within us, that spark is fueled by serenity long established in our souls.

When we forget this, it is easy to become stuck in "if only" patterns of thought. If we concentrate on the natural serenity that exists within us, however, we can move forward unimpeded by disappointment.

The circumstances you live through each day have the potential to bring both joy and despair into your life. Relying on the reactions they awaken within you to create an emotional foundation means living on a roller coaster of feeling whose course is determined by chance.

Though you may yearn for the object of your desire—be it a new job, financial health, a spouse, or some other symbol of success—you have within you the power to be happy without it. Letting go of your "if only" thinking patterns can be as easy as recognizing that inward emptiness cannot be dispelled with outer world solutions.

Try creating a list of your “if only”s. Then literally and figuratively let go of the items on the list by tearing it up or burning it. This simple action can help set in motion the intention to set you free, enabling you to make a fresh and balanced start in the present, unencumbered by regrets and unfulfilled desires.

There will likely be periods in your life in which you find yourself tempted to seek a magic formula for fulfillment that is centered upon a single goal or achievement.

But the ingredients that come together to form the seeds of happiness that can sustain your spirit throughout the triumphs and trials of existence come from within rather than from without.

When your search for satisfaction is focused on your soul, you will never fail to find the joy you seek.

 

what you think about all this...?  lol

A Prayer For Guidance (SistahPoet-inspired)

　

 

 

Dear God,

Please purge my agenda today. Take out of my life everything and everyone that could possibly take my focus from you. Take out of my mind every thought, every belief, every intention, every motivation that does not make you the priority in my life. Take out of my heart every experience, every memory, every desire that does not serve your purpose for my life. Remind me that your plan, your love for me is my salvation. Everything else is a figment of my imagination and a function of fear. Today, dear God, I recognize that I don't even know what to pray for, so I will leave the blessing up to you.

And so it is!

Amen.

 

Iyanla Vanzant, "Every Day I Pray"

(Sugga's) Finish The Thought: If I Were A.....

 

 

If I was a profession I'd be:
If I was a country I'd be:
If I was a ocean or body of water I'd be:
If I was a piece of candy I'd be:
If I was a famous building or piece of architecture I'd be:
If I was a store I'd be:
If I was a brand of shoe I'd be:
If I was a bad habit I'd be:
If I was a swear word I'd be:
If I was a icecream flavour I'd be:
If I was a disease I'd be:
If I was a board game I'd be:
If I was a feeling I'd be:
If I was a president I'd be:
If I was a war I'd be:
If I was a city I'd be:
If I was a colour I'd be:
If I was a celebrity I'd be:
If I was a movie I'd be:
If I was a brand of toothpaste:
If I was a business I'd be:
If I was a currency I'd be:
If I were a month, I'd be:
If I were a day of the week, I'd be:
If I were a time of day, I'd be:
If I were a planet, I'd be:
If I were a sea animal, I'd be:
If I were a direction, I'd be:
If I were a piece of furniture, I'd be:
If I were a sin, I'd be:
If I were a liquid, I'd be:
If I were a bird, I'd be:
If I were a tool, I'd be:
If I were a flower/plant, I'd be:
If I were a kind of weather, I'd be:
If I were a sound I'd be:
If I were an animal, I'd be:
If I were a vegetable, I'd be:
If I were a sound, I'd be:
If I were an element, I'd be:
If I were a car, I'd be:
If I were a song, I'd be:
If I were a book, I'd be:
If I were a food, I'd be:
If I were a material, I'd be:
If I were a taste, I'd be:
If I were a word, I'd be:
If I were a body part, I'd be:
If I were a facial expression, I'd be:
If I were a shape, I'd be:
If I were a number, I'd be:
If I were a piece of jewelry, I'd be:
If I were a speed, I'd be:
If I were a Name, I'd be:
If I were a Disorder, I'd be:
If I were a Royal job, I'd be:

3 Pages...(A SPII Sassy 3 Way Jakuper Collab-Shaniya Davis Dedication)

　

　

For every page turned.....a lesson learned....


Angel down...angel down
Her little body
sprawled upon cold dusty gravel,
not a sound
Electricity shimmering innocence
Naked and bare.....

Your background to spray
Artistic knowledge
And protection to hide
Under vulnerability
Shielded from repulsive un-civility
Plague infested society
You were her scriber of
Piety
Without a teacher
And failed her
You consented to them tagging her
Assented to them snagging her
Dragging her
Into a vandalized
Spirit
Too undeveloped to sidestep
Their evil
Swaggering
And the sketches of you drew her destiny
With krylon daggering
A wounded mural painted in pain infected
Grammar
Strangling her 5 years
Within a horrific memory
Spelling out
damn her
When the sketches of you criss-crossed
Her soul
The innate screamed and begged to console
A small glass life pipe
Smoked and choked you
Along with her
Into death’s
Swirling black hole.

For every page turned...a lesson learned


Victims..a by-product
of abuses,
sorry excuses,
overcrowded halls of learning
graffiti walled institutions
unfortunate destitution,
prostitution,
and/or drug pollution
so but damn

.....
where is the solution?

Is this just a sick world
summed up by hurt people hurting people?
While some people grow up with love,
some people are growing up
without love,
( feels like catching a baseball without a glove)
what she could have been,
what should have been;
like her mother, pain recycled
beaten, cheated
by 'her' mother's sins
....

and unbroken curses

Brother,
uncle,
close family friend,
themselves bruised within
yet... excused for starting the cycle again
Like it's a simple mistake we keep on
make-ing.....pray-ing it will stop
saying

...
things happen that way?

Why can't I get past this pain?
When can the healing begin?

A fist full of questions, and tears
about abuse over the years
Generations hurt
killed....by secret fears

The truth is a past
you can never recover..
God will take care of them,
keeping secrets
because 'we' love her or him,
but she is broken today
And...I'm sorry...I didn't know--
words we always say...

But who will wipe the tears
that spill...
and...Mame
and kill today?

So sad that 'she' couldn't be...
the change we wanted to see
Another page turned....a thousand lessons to learn

"On the wings of hope we rise and fly above our failures "

Forgiven for falling...so low
I know...I shouldn't be
but the price for what I did
was paid on Calvary
I just couldn't see
past my own MUSSITANT secrets,
or past my own
unpardonable misery

I could not escape.
I sold my self into slavery.
I sold my flesh into the slavery.
I sold my freedom
for a moment's high

It's just me, God...You and I
trying to EXCORIATE the loss,
counting the cost
in this one defining moment
....

and it was not worth it

Exiled into my own VERTIGINOUS prison
.....

trying to pick up the pieces of truth
I passed....by realizing
an eye for an eye
makes the whole world blind


Will I ever be ready to heal
For every page turned

......
only time
alone

will reveal

 

Dedicated to Shaniya Davis, Antoinette Davis, her unborn child and all affected by this tragic story that was written well before Shaniya’s tender 5 years.

 

 

 

 

CarissaR/Jakuper©2009

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

Omnipotence of God

 

Gen 17:1

1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. (KJV)

Gen 18:14

14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. (KJV)

Job 42:2

2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. (KJV)

Ps 45:3-5

3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. (KJV)

Ps 110:3

3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. (KJV)

Matt 12:28-29

28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. (KJV)

Matt 19:26

26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (KJV)

Matt 28:18

18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. (KJV)

 

 

"God is always bringing us closer to Him."

 

 Awareness of God

God said:

Please remember it is just fine to enjoy the relative. Do not be conscience-stricken that you had a wonderful time or that you are fortunate and that many gifts of diverse kinds are coming your way. I want happiness in the relative world for you. It is My desire that you enjoy. Do not concern yourself whether you deserve or don’t deserve, caused or didn’t cause. Just enjoy.

Certainly, think of Me often. That does not mean you have to think of Me every moment or feel guilty when you don’t. I am not a homework assignment. Have Me simply in mind.

Decide ahead of time to have Me in your awareness, and in your awareness, I will be. Thinking of Me and awareness of Me are not the same thing. Think of Me often enough, give your heart in word and deed, and you will have awareness of Me. You will have awareness the way you imagine auras are seen naturally. You will have awareness of Me without thought, beloveds. Awareness has to be beyond thought. Experiences and talking about experiences aren’t quite substitutes for awareness.

When you are aware that the sun is warming you, you don’t have to think about it in order to be aware. Nor do you have to think that it’s getting dark in order to know it’s getting dark. When you are by the ocean, and you feel the mist on your face, you have the awareness of the mist on your face. In these cases, you have awareness first, and thoughts after.

The word God does not even have to be in your vocabulary in order to have awareness of Me. And yet, the more you consciously think of Me, the more I will be in your awareness.

Remember you are not on a hunt for enlightenment. You are on the hunt for Me. When your pursuit is for enlightenment, you make enlightenment an object with certain properties that you put as a standard before you, sort of a glory, an accomplishment, even a feat. It’s not quite so easy to do that with Me. No one can tell you that you have reached this plateau or that plateau with Me. You can’t even tell yourself. You just have to live and be and not be quite so self-conscious about Our relationship

Rather than desiring a certain state of consciousness and sharing notes with others about it or comparing yourself with others, or even comparing yourself with yourself, just gravitate toward Me.

There is such a tendency to plan life, to know every step of the way. You are accustomed to going from first grade to second grade, from elementary school to junior high school and so on and getting diplomas.

Coming closer to Me, beloveds, is your own reward. It is between you and Me. It is not meant to be a status symbol in the world. Coming closer to Me, beloveds, is not meant to give you a degree. Just quietly come to Me. Do not look for applause, nor credit, nor any recognition at all. Just be, beloveds, and without attention to yourself or explanations to others, just carry My light and brighten the light of others. Light up someone else, just the way in the movies the star would light a cigarette for someone else.

He didn’t have to say: "Now I am lighting your cigarette." He didn’t have to say: Your cigarette is lit." He simply lit the cigarette.

This is even more true when it comes to your giving My light. Do it anonymously without fanfare. It’s not a production. Simply be of service where you are now. You don’t need an identification card, beloveds. I am enough.

 

 

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

28 O Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.~2 Samuel 7:28


10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.~Psalm 9:10

30 The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 31 and in the desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place." 32 In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, 33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.~Deuteronomy 1:30-33




28 O Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.~2 Samuel 7:28


10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.~Psalm 9:10



5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.~Psalm 13:5

14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."~Psalm 31:14

　

　

　

　

Working With God
Practical-minded people sometimes laugh at an idea of trusting in God. For them, it justifies passivity and irresponsibility of a believer. From their experience they've learned that success comes from consistent efforts - and they think that asking God for help is equal to trying getting something for nothing.

I can see their point. However, we need to have in mind that there are different kinds of trust. There is the one which suits a person who wants to achieve success and happiness. It makes such person a co-worker with God. Briefly it can be described in this way: Do not trust that God will do something for you. Trust that God will work with you and through you.

This attitude makes us fully responsible for discovering and using of God's gifts within us and outside of us. It shifts our focus from the realm of manifestations to the inner realm of creative activity. It makes us seek for the wisdom and inspiration within.

There is nothing mystical about working with God. In a sense, every person works with God in some degree, because we cannot be outside of God. It have been said that "in God we live, and move, and have our being". But there are different stages of our partnership with the Creative Power of the Universe - and there are different levels of consequent happiness and fulfillment.

One of the major problems of practical-minded people is their focus of outward things which often makes them unbalanced. For instance, when things go wrong, they tend to become pessimistic. When everything is well, they tend to become overly excited and boastful. When they cannot control certain events or do not have enough information, they tend to become anxious.

Why should we be centered in the inner realm? Our point is not to ignore outward events, but not to be dominated by them. We should not allow them to distort our perception and to limit our creative self-expression. Our inner calmness and ability to stay focused within will lead us to clear vision. We won't be overwhelmed by difficult situations. When they will arise, we will see both difficulties and ways of their resolution. Even more, we will accept challenges not as personal offences, but as stepping stones to greater personal development and success.

Our actions won't be motivated by fear, guilt, resistance, or self-importance. They will express our true values and highest understanding. At the same time, we won't feel inadequate to deal with our circumstances. We will be aware of hidden resources of wisdom and strength within ourselves.

How do we know that we've made a contact with divine wellspring of inspiration? By renewed desires to create and to achieve, to bring the spirit of freshness and newness into all areas of our life.

These desires will compel us to move forward, no matter what difficulties we may encounter. And as we move forward, we will be moved upward. We will be lifted up to even greater awareness and wisdom.

While we are working with God, God is working on us.