Light and Love

You are light and love. You are not defined by the darkness that has entered your life or your relationships, light overcomes darkness.

This world is filled with darkness and wants to claim victims, emotionally, physically, mentally. Jesus looked the darkness straight in the eyes and was not filled with fear. This is the same Jesus that lives in you. The enemy or the thing that attempts to rob of us if our life IS NOT PEOPLE. We have associated people with the thing that tries to give or take away. Sin and death are the real culprit, and when we see and meditate and really take in what Jesus has done to conquer sin and death, love is a natural response that drives out fear - love is light! 

No one can affirm who you are. The Holy Spirit provides the real affirmation inwardly of who you are. You are not a victim you are light and love. Darkness can not overcome the light. Just see what happens when you flip on a light switch in a room, the darkness vanishes instantly

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The power to my light is words such as these:

Romans 12:21

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

John 1:14

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Darkness has done a filthy work. It’s gone around convincing everyone to look at each other as the one who can bring or take away their life. When we live that way, we live at the mercy of other people as our god (the thing that can give or take away my life) rather than the real SOURCE of life as our God (the creator), Jesus who we can see conquering the sin and death for us.

I have to treat my dog, Sammy, to teach him how to walk without freaking out about everything during our daily walks. Like my dog, we were made to fix our eyes on something or someone to dictate how we feel, what we do, what we experience. Our walk, again like my dog Sammy taking a walk, can go a lot easier smoother the more we keep our eyes of the person with treats. 🙏🏽

Compassion: A Journey

“Hurt people hurt (other) people. When someone causes you pain, it’s helpful to consider how they might be hurting themselves... holding their pain with compassion will heal both you and them.” -ProjectHappiness 

“Compassion: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.” - Dictionary

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Compassion has been a journey for me with regard to my understanding of it and how it has been an exploratory experience in which my heart has been inquisitive and curious. In this journey, I am still learning how the essence of compassion manifests in different forms within myself and within others. Nonetheless, what I’ve learned so far is described in an updated post of mine from 2018:

The worst pain I have experienced in my life has been from my biased interpretation of what happened to me and my heart's conclusion(s) of why someone did something to me that impacted me negatively (whether they were conscious of it or not). I sit back in amazement when I realize that the suffering I have endured for days, months, or even years did not stem from the objective event necessarily, but from the belief in my heart about myself, about the person, and why they did or said what they did/said to me and what it means. I've seen a pre-established view of myself and of the world around me twist and bend just about anything into something that fortifies or "proves" that I am not loved or accepted. This, of course, due to the status of my being loved or accepted fractured long ago..

What has been my saving grace, within my thinking and my heart, more and more through the years has been the word, idea, or logic of compassion. Compassion, for me, has been the experience of being open to understanding the depth of stress, hurt, pain, or oppression someone is going through or has gone through that has caused them to do something that produced an effect of pain inwardly or outwardly — and that we have all been on both ends of this, of giving or receiving pain.

Compassion carries the understanding that we all encounter and are given a soul-ish disease in this world that breeds negative thinking and judgment about ourselves and others. This disease's pathology is formed on the basis of "acceptance" and begins at a very young age. By that I mean, we figure out so early on what makes, not just something, but, someONE acceptable or not acceptable. With new eyesight, we can see that compassion is understanding and accepting when another is struggling with this disease and knowing that THEY are not the disease. Compassion for self is knowing YOU are not the disease when this struggle happens to you. Compassion is knowing that sometimes the unimaginable worst can happen in life and relationships but the story of your worth is greater than anything that you can encounter.

Compassion is love that brings healing for self and for your relationships. Compassion sees that you are love in one of its various forms.
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The following are some quotes on compassion, enduring, and love that have resonated with me.

"..Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].." -1 Cor. 13:4-7 AMPC 

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.” 

― Martin Luther King Jr.

My Death for your Life

An extract of some of the thoughts that have flowed through my consciousness. These thoughts are a process and display where I am in my thinking. Submitted to God in confidence, but welcome to all to see that by Grace it may bless anyone. God purges the branch that it may yield more fruit. God can use anything for his glory!

My dad is rich. I have won the lottery!  With my soul I acknowledge that I am in Christ. Knowing that all of nature is inevitably set to be subject to me brings forth confidence and boldness in my heart. Not by my will but by the power of grace I (the real me, the one who is and born of the spirit), through the eternal life in me, worship the true God and do not worship false god’s such as bad weather, another human’s flesh, or anything in this world by letting it dictate my emotions and what I experience. Those things worship the God in me and fall prostrate to who I am. I begin to live out in my thoughts and my emotions the life of a person who’s inheritance is all of creation. Even should I trip at offense and forget who I am and experience in my flesh death, I can be reminded and know the identity of the flesh has died in Christ already and there is no reasonable way I can identify with that body of flesh, because it is DEAD and the life I identify and live in is in reality, arisen and seated at the right hand of the throne of God (demonstration my life’s position, value, and worth in the universe). The world with its worldly eyes sees a dieing body right now but I am alive in the risen Christ, all of creation is looking to the day when it will be manifest and displayed who and what I really am. An immortal human clothed with immortality. Heaven and earth will collide in this body.

I (the flesh identity) have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

Faith = persuasion.

Son of God was persuaded of his worth, his rightful inheritance of all things, including eternal life. Through loving me and giving himself for me, he persuaded me to believe and partake in an equal coheritance with him in immortal life. So that apart from anything I do, I would have eternal life, living as I ought to be in a world as it ought to be. That’s the heart of God to give life for free. 

I am not like Thanos who had to kill, steal, and destroy lives to be as he ought to be, to be a “god”, or to fill the void in his heart and to experience peace. He was subject to the world system in believing that people’s value were based on their ability to contribute, their ability to love, their ability to get, or do anything that could prove their worth. He felt lack when he looked around in the universe and reasoned that the universe was dieing (finite resources), he reasoned he had to make himself a god, and take all that constitutive s life (through the infinity stones-Mind, Power, Reality, Soul, Space, and Time), and then judge who is worthy of life or not. 

Thanos is a picture of the inheritance of Adam: Sin and death. In what ways am I (my flesh mind) looking around me or even my body of flesh and reasoning how need to take or get something so that I can finally have peace and watch the “sunset”? What effect is it having to those around me?

I am crucified with Christ dangit, it’s not me (flesh identity) who lives but Christ in me (spirit identity). I am not to be deceived into thinking I don’t already have life and need to partake of Satan’s tainted tree of knowledge of good and evil to judge myself and others if they are as they out to be. It would be a mockery of everything Christ did to demonstrate who I am!

After renewing my mind, I speak as I ought to be, as the father would be speaking. No longer speech in who the flesh tries to dictate me as, “sinner”, “condemned”, etc. When the flesh speaks I take that speech to Christ, and the father exchanges his life when i present my death in whatever way I feel, think, and act. Romans 12

He then lives out renewed feelings, thoughts, and actions. If I am afraid to present my flesh to him, then he can’t raise it from the dead in those areas it needs to be arisen. 

Hebrews 4:16

16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

God promises to renew whatever I offer to him and give back life. Like a pawn shop, but more just in its returns. 

More on that thought...

God is like a sanctified pawn shop, you offer your woes, your sin, and your manifesting death. He gives you more then compensatory life. There’s no other person like that.

When we hold that in for ourselves out of fear, we experience the penalty sin has, of death. Seeing the love in God’s heart when he offered himself on the cross and offered OUR death to God (by carrying our sin) was to help convince us that God will never punish us for our sin when we come to him, but always offer love and give eternal life. Just look at what happened to the guy who represented us.. where is he now? Seated at the highest position of value and worth in all the universe, the right hand of God. 

It’s like the example of the record breaking Olympic times for running. No one though it possible until the first man demonstrated it. That’s the power of being convinced and needing to be convinced in order to believe something that is true. 

Rejection - An Indication of the State of the Heart

Through observation and experience, a deeper understanding of rejection has nested itself within my heart and mind.

Rejection, we all fear it at some subconscious or unconscious level. However, many of us are unaware of where rejection takes place. Some feel that it is within the power of those whom they would desire acceptance and/or love. There are some who consider it to be a fabricated reality that exists purely in our minds. There are others who think it a reality only to be ignored and deemed insignificant when compared to grander truths. For myself, though it may yet still be an incomplete knowledge subject to further refinement through experience, I have been brought into the understanding, through Guided experience, that the rejection takes place in the heart and is a filter for what is perceived as reality by the soul.

Here's a story I present with two scenarios: 

Scenario one, I am given an opportunity to interview at a prestigious location. However, I am already within the belief that I would not prefer working there. I attend the interview anyway out of curiosity for experience and am told I have considerable credentials and I seem to be a perfect fit for the work. I am pleased with this offered acceptance into this position, however, I am indifferent to actually taking this offer. I politely decline the offer, knowing my true feelings, and I go home feeling esteemed that I was offered the position anyway.

Scenario two, I attend said interview and on the spot am told that I am not suitable to work as this particular company given my credentials and experience. Still carrying the same belief as scenario one I initially am relieved of not being offered the job. Nonetheless, upon walking out of the door of the interview office I begin to consider how "I should feel", as in, what is the appropriate emotion to feel when someone does not receive something that would ordinarily be valued and desired by others.  I also begin to ruminate on why I was not given the job and measure myself to standards that I do not qualify. I then begin to experience a sense of lack of not getting a job offer, not feeling accepted, and not measuring up to values/criteria I perceive that I "I should" have. 

In both scenarios, an outward criterion was established. In the scenario, I was told that I measured at or above the criteria. In scenario two I was told I did not. The internal experience I felt from both scenarios was guided by an outward occurrence perceived by my heart to be a reality that sought to define my experience. Rejection occurred in scenario two when my experience was defined negatively from an event that occurred that validated the unacceptable qualities that I held and the acceptable qualities that I felt I lacked.  

I was told I had but what I did and what happened to me, and I felt esteemed. 

I was told I did not have based on what I did not do and what did or didn't happen to me an I felt lack. 

Under this defined experiences, I encountered a subjective reality of rejection from objective facts. 

In a book full of wisdom it is told that what flows out of the heart shapes our reality, the things that we experience in this life.

Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Can I now validate that this proverb is aligned with truth? Can this understanding bring me salvation?

I can seek salvation from the things that bring forth fear and anxiety in me. My God has promised to deliver me from the hands of death. 


Romans 8:31-39

Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love

31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”[a]) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.