ALTER YOUR LIFE

Does God play favorites? Are some “chosen” for success while others for failure? Does God want us all to be “Happy, Joyous and Free”? Is He all “Our Father” or not? Living on the Spiritual Basis, we have chosen to live the examined life. Answering these questions defines what we really believe. We lived speaking in generalities using bumper sticker length platitudes as answers when we were of the world. Now being in the world but of God, by choice, we look beyond easy vacuous greeting card answers to life and living and get down to causes and conditions. A price has to be paid and the price is the surrendering of self.

We alter our lives by taking the road less traveled. Here difficulty arises since we often find ourselves seemingly traveling alone, encountering questions and challenges greater than we see others facing. To be clear: everyone faces the same questions and challenges, the form they take alters for each individual, but they all are born of the same bedrock and we will either seek answers, live in denial or induced oblivion if the pain of living becomes to great. Selfishness, self-centeredness, self-seeking, fear in all its guises are handicaps to spiritual freedom. The world is continually providing “self help” answers to the questions of life, a new book, a seminar or training program to solve our problems. How many have come and gone in the course of your life, promising everything but only succeeding in draining bank accounts or running up credit card balances, then fading away?

A relationship with the Source requires nothing and everything. There is no need to bring your wallet, but helping those in need, as you see fit, is highly recommended. You do not have to join anything, but congregating with like-minded individuals is a plus. God is the same today as yesterday and promised to be in the future, yet living in the light we grow and change day by day, sometimes moment by moment. The path is available to all, rich to poor, literate or illiterate, high born or born of the earth, the only impediment is our own fear, which leads to our seeming separation from eternal truth. Everything needed to have a conscious contact with God is available to us now, if we are willing to go to any lengths for a spiritual awakening. Willing to go to any lengths. What an order, but in the light of truth, is there really any other choice?