Since you found....

[juantoo3]

Originally Posted by Alex P

..Since you found your god, gods, faith...

How has your life and ways improved?

I didn't realize these were ever lost.

I realized G-d was still there all along, even after I flirted briefly with disbelief. My view of G-d, and my tools and methods of explaining, have changed over the years. But G-d has been there all along for me.

My life in large part is what I make of it. I can't very well make my life into a disaster and expect G-d to bail me out so I can continue making my life even more of a disaster. I think it was wil I first saw write: "we are not punished *for* our sins, we are punished *by* our sins."

G-d has seen me through some pretty difficult times, like when I fell off a roof and broke my leg. I suppose a pessimistic person would say G-d deserted me, because my health began to fail from that point in time. But I keep thinking of how I missed a cube of bricks by less than the width of my shoulders, how if I had been just a little further over I would not be here having this discussion.

"A man is about as happy as he makes his mind up to be" -A. Lincoln

I can choose to see G-d in my life, or I can choose to dismiss G-d in my life. I've seen enough of G-d in my life to convince me G-d exists, that G-d's agents (angels or whatever) have saved me from myself more than once, especially when I was a child and didn't know any better. I've seen times when others had miracles work in their lives, what a disbeliever might call dumb luck or favorable fate, escaping death by a hair's breadth. I've seen children beat the odds so often I think the odds-makers don't have a clue what they are talking about.

[wil]

Claiming personal responsibility, giving up blame, deciding to take ownership, changing perspective on events that happen around me.

Tis like putting steroid enhanced rose colored glasses on. Life really does get better, and one spends less time whining, bitching and moaning the world is out to get them.

Why worry, let go and let G!d. It is what it is, it is all good. I can't always see the good, but that is because I can't see the big picture on everything.

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by wil

Claiming personal responsibility, giving up blame, deciding to take ownership, changing perspective on events that happen around me.

Tis like putting steroid enhanced rose colored glasses on. Life really does get better, and one spends less time whining, bitching and moaning the world is out to get them.

Why worry, let go and let G!d. It is what it is, it is all good. I can't always see the good, but that is because I can't see the big picture on everything.

That is pretty awesome.

I also very much like, the way you obviously have found your faith and your god, but then still accept there is much to learn and see, and as always expected the positive be cool way from ya, ih and the let it go and find the good, even in the bad...

Originally Posted by juantoo3

I didn't realize these were ever lost.

I realized G-d was still there all along, even after I flirted briefly with disbelief. My view of G-d, and my tools and methods of explaining, have changed over the years. But G-d has been there all along for me.

My life in large part is what I make of it. I can't very well make my life into a disaster and expect G-d to bail me out so I can continue making my life even more of a disaster. I think it was wil I first saw write: "we are not punished *for* our sins, we are punished *by* our sins."

G-d has seen me through some pretty difficult times, like when I fell off a roof and broke my leg. I suppose a pessimistic person would say G-d deserted me, because my health began to fail from that point in time. But I keep thinking of how I missed a cube of bricks by less than the width of my shoulders, how if I had been just a little further over I would not be here having this discussion.

"A man is about as happy as he makes his mind up to be" -A. Lincoln

I can choose to see G-d in my life, or I can choose to dismiss G-d in my life. I've seen enough of G-d in my life to convince me G-d exists, that G-d's agents (angels or whatever) have saved me from myself more than once, especially when I was a child and didn't know any better. I've seen times when others had miracles work in their lives, what a disbeliever might call dumb luck or favorable fate, escaping death by a hair's breadth. I've seen children beat the odds so often I think the odds-makers don't have a clue what they are talking about.

Loving the quote there, very much like Wil with the finding positive in all negative situations, true, tis a bummer you fell and broke your leg, but whoope you fell and broke your leg, praise it wasn't your neck. Also noticing from these posts that there is a pattern to a degree, we seem put in place, the right place. I mean by that there is this aura, of I accept most things are out of my hands and there is a flow to things ad I will ride it out, and do what I can on the way.

Ride the wave.