I think we all have a lifetime of messages, good and bad, running through our heads and it takes a lot of work to get to a point where the good outweigh the bad.
I believe, for me, good and evil exist in this world and each day we are tempted by evil. WE HAVE THE CHOICE...mind you...but, we have to CHOOSE GOOD over EVIL. And, Evil can sound very tempting and tantalizing and easy over good.
When an alcoholic is faced with the decision to drink, they must choose to ignore those negative messages saying---with every possible cunning and baffling message..."DRINK. You deserve it."
If it was as easy as Just Say No, then there wouldn't be adultery, alcoholism and poverty...
I'm not blaming the Devil for my problems. I own them...But, I also respect that nothing happens in a vacuum. There's a reason I struggle in the areas I struggle.
Everyone has a battle to fight each day. I wish a nightly affirmation was enough to make the decades of poverty and drug addiction and emotional abuse go away...It's not. It takes action and a fierce vigilance, for me, to fight off the negative messages each and every day.
I've learned over time...that filling my head with overwhelming positive messages leads to progress for me. Sometimes slowly, but still progress.
In my experience, many of life's problems don't have cut and dried answers...as much as we'd like to just "fix it." f
Life can be very difficult and wear you down. And, often, dark forces ARE at work to make things worse. If this wasn't the case, then my daughter would deserve to have a developmental disability, I would deserve a husband who left me for someone else and a whole slew of things would be MY fault. I'm not that powerful.
I'm like everyone else. I have good things and bad things happen each day and I have to make the conscious effort to choose to see the good over the evil.
I'm the kind of person who needs to digest the information, fill my head with words of love and acceptance and then trudge forward.
"You know, it's times like these when I realize what a superhero I am." Tony Stark/Iron Man
“Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.” Lois Wilson
