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Every Day is a Celebration For the
God-conscious
Times Of India
We awake each morning not knowing what to expect from the
day ahead.
Will it bring good fortune or pain? This uncertainty creates
feelings
of fear and instability. How is one to deal with daily life
when one
is filled with uncertainty? Mystics and saints view life
from a
higher angle. They recommend that we live each moment with
full trust
in the Lord.
Trust in the Lord requires a conviction that there is an
unseen power
who created this world and who created us. It means having
knowledge
that our soul has been created by God, and its journey is
under God's
will. It requires conviction that God has sent us into the
world for
a purpose and our destiny is to fulfil that purpose. This
means that
we cannot leave this earth before our destined time comes.
It means
that certain events that happen to us are also preordained
by God,
and that what happens is already laid out for us. It also
means that
we have been given some free will in which we can make some
choices.
Some of what happens to us each day is God's will. We also
have free
will to choose, and we can make choices that are going to be
beneficial to us and those around us.
Our journey in life is a process of evolution of the soul.
Sooner or
later the soul is destined to return to God. The end goal
that God
has for us is that we attain this freedom. At the right
moment, we
get a helping hand when we think all is lost.
Ernest Shackleford dreamed of crossing Antarctica by dog
sled, a
2,100-mile journey. Shackleford and his team began the
journey.
Unfortunately, the boat taking them to Antarctica hit an ice
pack and
sank. Luckily, the men survived, but they found themselves
in waters
with drifting ice floes. The nearest land was 200 miles
away. The
nearest human outpost was 1,200 miles away.
They salvaged a one-ton lifeboat which they pulled with
them,
crossing from one ice floe to another. When they reached an
area that
did not have anymore ice floes, they got into the lifeboat,
but the
waves were often 90 feet high. Somehow, they made it to an
island of
ice, which had never been crossed before. It took them seven
months
to reach civilisation. When they finally arrived, they told
their
friends that they felt the presence of an unseen power
guiding them
on.
The beauty of God's unseen hand is that sometimes we
actively pray
for help and receive it, but there are many times when we do
not even
ask for help, and help comes anyway. These times are
reminders to us
that we are not alone.
One way to feel God's presence is to meditate. The energy
emanating
from God is a principle that manifests as light and sound.
The light
is greater than any light one experiences on earth. The
sound is a
divine melody that reverberates without instruments or vocal
chords.
The more consciousness there is, the more ethereal the
sound. Let us
make everyday a celebration. The next time we feel helpless
and
alone, let us remember that God's arms are around us. Let us
offer
thanks for the myriad ways in which God's love surrounds and
protects
us.
Every Day is a Celebration For the God-conscious
Times Of India
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