Shift Happens

In life, we sometimes think or believe we are in control. We have a plan. However, most times we have no real clue at first, how things will unfold. This is what happened to me. I bought the script I was given, very young. I played the part very well, in fact like any good actor, I became the part.

However, somewhere deep down, in my soul, there was an unrest, a discontent. I denied and suppressed this feeling for almost 36 years. If it got strong, I would rebuke it, because it was against everything I had believed to be true, and so it had to be evil, it had to be the devil, didn't it?

I read the right books, prayed the right prayers, surrounded myself with the right kind of folks who believed the "right way". However this unease of heart grew. It would not be denied. My resistance began to affect my health, my peace of mind. I found myself having bouts of depression and anxiety. Chest pains and digestive problems became more regular. There came a point in time, where I had to stop and examine my life, and attend to this dis-ease. In fact I knew intuitively, that if I didn't address it, it would destroy me. Either through destroying my health or self-destruction.

I thought, this was all due to my suppression of my sexual identity. And although, this was a part, it was only a small part. In fact, I now know I suffered from what most suffer from. This condition of dis-connect. In fact that is where my blog and ministry "Reconnection" got its name, although when I I received the name, I did not know the fullness of its meaning.

Most people live in their minds, with the thought patterns and beliefs they were taught or learned through life. Their sense of identity is formed through these experiences and beliefs. They have lost connection with their true self or soul and live from this false self that some call the ego (edging God Out) and other traditions call it flesh, sinful nature or lower self. This is the life we have learned to live separately from God, our true self.

Now God and/or life (whichever term you feel more comfortable with) will NOT let you stay in this condition. I have heard it described this way, at first God will speak to you in a whisper, and if you do not listen will get louder through circumstances in your life and if you continue to not hear, God may hit you over the head with a brick, in love of course (figuratively speaking).

The way of true life, is connection with God, with your authentic self and with others. Most of us simply accept the illusion of life as the real thing and never question, is there More? When if we are honest, our true self, cries out often, there has to be more. There is GoodNews, there is!

Christ, said that he had come to give us true life and show us the way of this life. He did not come to start a religion, but to reconnect us with Life, Love, and Spirit. In other words God. Not the misrepresentation that religion has fashioned and then demanded you bow to or their god will send you to Hell. But the true living God who is love that desires above all else to life you out of the hell that you are already in. The Hell of disconnected living.

What I am sharing, is not anything new, and you do not have to take my word for it, nor should you. Listen to that voice, that you have tried to ignore cover
with distractions but during times when you are quiet, speaks truth to you. The voice we all have tried to lose touch with. This voice, will lead you to truth, and you don't need anyone to tell you how it is. This voice (the Holy Spirit) will confirm in your heart what is true.

I this sounds like religion, but in truth religion sounds something like the truth, because it began there. But men highjacked it and perverted it to bring them power and control. That's when truth became religion. But the Truth is still real and like Christ said, it will set you free and give you real life.

Now, you can ignore this truth and stay in the discontent many call life, but I can promise you, God will keep trying to get your attention, not because he has such a big ego that he needs you to worship Him, but because God is our loving parent or source and will keep trying to get you living the Life you were meant to live. This is not a life of sacrifice and pain, that is what you are living now, but a life of peace, joy and purpose.

Now that is not to say, there will not be problems and difficulties. This life is a classroom and through it we learn how to rise above. As we listen to the voice and leanings of the Holy Spirit (inner voice)we receive direction, instruction and comfort. Most times suffering comes from resisting the truth and this is because we look at life from our perspective, instead of God's. The truth will set you free from illusion, guilt, shame and the false life.

If you give this way of living a chance, even for a moment, then you too will be able to say, "Shift Happens".






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