Reflections on my Soul

This will be updated over the next several days as additional reflections are brought into my consciousness.

I am listening to my final audible book before arriving home to San Diego - The Contemplative Leader.

GRACE
Grace requires a surrender of our ego. Initially to understand and realize there is something greater than our self. Secondly, that we have a choice - to surrender and accept grace or reject the spiritual world and therefore feed our ego or false self to grow while distancing us from our true self or being present. Our mind will reject grace and feed our ego to maintain control, therefore, in order to truly surrender to be in Grace, we need to lose ourselves (mind) in order to find our true self. That is to live in the now.

CONTROL
Someone once stated, “if you are not in control, your are out of control, and if you are out of control, you are not in control”. Ultimately we have never been in control. Either our ego has taken over or the power of grace through God leads our life. To lead an authentic, grace-filled life requires us to surrender and accept that there is a greater power within the universe, another dimension which is unseen, but can be felt and connected to/with. The visible spectrum is only a fraction of the entire spectrum, yet we discount that what we can’t see just as Thomas did at the time of Christ’s resurrection. I Belive the TV series get smart summed up our false self perfectly with the two agencies - Control and Caos, feeding our ego the false choice that if you are not in control, you are out of control, and if you are out of control, you are not in control. So, what do you have to lose other than your mind? Let God, let Grace control your life. The other choice isn’t so appealing once you really think about it, eh?

Coming soon...

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