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Trust - How to restore it

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One of Those Days...

Do you ever have one of those days?

Not one of those days...

I mean one of those days.  One of those days when you are more AWARE.

Aware of all the good in your life.  Aware of the blessings...the love...the goodness...

Almost like you are more awake than usual.  Something deep within has come alive for the moment to remind you - you are blessed...life is good.

Do you have those AWARE days too?

Today is one of those days.

It's hard to explain.

It feels like emotions deep within, like stallions,  running wild from your heart to your head to your heart - over & over again.  You feel it & then you think about it & then you feel it & then you think about it...etc.

It feels like gratitude when it's in your head.  As you take an inventory of your life at that moment.  Not all of your life - a piece of it.  It's like seeing a beautiful piece of art & focusing in on a detail of that same  artwork.  And, for whatever reason, it's that detail that stands out at that moment.  And it causes an emotion...a smile...a warm fuzzy within.  Joy.

And it feels like something just one-millisecond short of tears.  Tears of joy...gladness...happiness...love. Not only tears, it feels like dancing...twirling...running...shouting...laughing...silence.

Being AWARE is a deep thing.

It's like every crowning achievement in your life has bundled itself up & you celebrate them - fresh & new.

It feels like electricity set at an incredibly low setting - just pulsating your skin.  But, it's not your skin - it's the skin that wraps around life itself within.  And today, it's pulsating with more life than normal.  It almost feels like goose bumps - deep within though, not on the surface.

It feels like being in the rain.  But you are not getting wet, instead, you are feeling the rain.  Every drop as it hits you...it's that moment as a kid when you'd go outside to play in the rain & look up into the sky to catch the rain on your tongue.

It feels spiritual.  Like God himself has decided to sit beside you for a few moments to "open your eyes" wider than normal...to restore your vision...to just whisper to you "life is good...enjoy all that I've given you...all that's been given back...all that's right.  And, oh, by the way - I love you."  It's like you are more AWARE of Him & all the blessings He has given into your life.  In an AWARE moment - there is no sadness...no room for grieving loss or the past.

It's like sitting beside a lake - far away from every noise...every distraction...every everything & anything that lessens your abundant life.  For a moment, you are AWARE of nothing but goodness...love...joy...peace...all that is good.  No ripples on the water...nothing to disturb this moment.

It's like being under water - only the water is not water - it's love.  You feel overwhelmingly loved & in love.  Like the suns' rays - you feel love warming you up (or back up)...and like a refection of that same warmth - you feel it being given way to those you love most in your life.  You wife...kids...family...friends.  It's a moment that borders on drowning - but you know you are fully alive in this reality.

It's like a moment that you'd love to stay in - but you know you can't.  You don't even know where you are or how you got here.  You just woke up - there.  And you know, that in some moment, reality will ease back in & this moment will be gone.

But, it's this AWARENESS that makes you live all the others - better than before.

Because you are more AWARE.

YEP.

AWARE.

That's what I'm feeling today.

I am in AWE at this moment.

Thanks God - for all the good that's in my life.

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A Few Reasons to Change Some Habits

Habit is defined as...


A settled tendency...a behavior pattern acquired by frequent repetition...an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary...


Some of our habits could use some changing - in each of our lives.


Here's why we need to change some habits...


Some are absolutely useless.  Perhaps they are now useless or they were never useful in the first place.  No matter, habits that fall under this type, might not necessarily be bad or destructive, just useless.  Like sleeping too much or watching too much tv...or procrastination...etc.  Not really "bad" just useless.


Also, some habits are more graphic & show up as being more detrimental in life.  Again, we might not label them as being really bad, so much as knowing they are holding us back from something better.  Eating ice cream might not be "bad", but it could be holding us back from losing weight...causing diabetes...lowering self-esteem...etc.  Just some things that might be in our life, that if we change them - we will be on our way to a goal we want to achieve.


Of course, some habits are bad...destructive...harmful...etc.  No one has to point those out either, we know them & know they need to change.  Actually change is a lighter word than what is really needed.  Stop or quit is the right word here.  Anything causing any area of our life to be lived at a lower level - needs to be dropped.


Here's how we are wired:


Actions produce Feelings.


There is no way around this truth.  It's an inherent principle living within.  The short of it is this:  You will NEVER feel good about acting bad.  Never.  Why?  Actions produce feelings.  Also, you can never feel your way out of acting bad.  It's not going to happen.


You want to feel better about yourself...your marriage...your home...your family...etc.  Act better.  It's that simple - yet it's that difficult.


Find the habits in your life that cause you to feel less than alive...those that are in the way of your thriving...those that are killing you in some area of life.


AND


Change them.  Baby steps.  Do what you can UNTIL you can do what you can't.


One step will produce a better feeling about yourself.


The antithesis is true as well.  Allow your feelings to direct your life & you will always have a negative feeling from that.  Sadly, if your feelings guide you, it's a reinforcing loop set up in your life.  It goes like this - you don't feel like it - so you don't.  That causes you to not feel like it again...only to cause you to feel worse about yourself (or it) again.  On & on & on.


Plant a thought, reap an act. Plant an act, reap a habit. Plant a habit, reap a character. Plant a character, reap a destiny.


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Why I Want to Be a Risk Taker

Our youngest is on a Competition Cheering Team.  Stars is their name.

It's the 1st time in her young life that she has been: part of a team sport and been part of  cheering too.

So, she entered the year a little behind the learning curve.  Today, we were on the way to pick her up from practice, when she called us.  "I got my cartwheel" was the declaration coming through the phone.  Needless to say, she was excited.

The cartwheel was conquered.  Running...hands on the ground...feet over head...feet back on the ground...hands over head.  BAMM.  Done.

Easier said than done.  Somewhere in the past it was fake run...acting like hands were going to hit the ground or once advanced, they hit the ground - sort if... fear or anxiety was the rule.

But.  She did it.  She "got her cartwheel".

Why?

Because she wanted it bad enough.  Bad enough to overcome her fears & anxiety.  Bad enough to overcome her inability.  Bad enough to ignore she was behind on things.  Bad enough to just get it done.

Bad enough to risk whatever she calculated as the cost.  Not only did she want it bad enough...she wanted it bad enough to do it - until, "she got her cartwheel".

I want to live like that.

I want to take whatever risks are necessary to "get my cartwheels" in life - whatever they might really be.

I want to want something bad enough to go after it.

I want to feel that fear/anxiety that leads into equal celebration when conquered.

I want to go after those things that fear is holding me back from.

I want to "get my cartwheels" in life.


Each & every one of them.

Don't you?

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