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nabashalam
Senior Member
Username: nabashalam
Post Number: 1614
Registered: 1-2006
Posted From: 75.128.244.102
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 1:48 pm: | 
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Holding onto regret is like dragging the weight of the past with us everywhere we go. It drains our energy, leaving less available for life in the present because we are constantly feeding an old issue. This attachment can cause illness the same way watering a dead plant creates decay. We know that something new and beautiful can grow in its place if we only prepare the soil and plant the right seeds. We also know that we create our lives from our thoughts, so dwelling on the past may actually recreate a situation in our lives where we are forced to make the choice again and again. We can choose to move on right now by applying what we have learned to the present and perhaps even sharing with others, transforming the energy into something that is constructive and creative for ourselves and others.
Forgiveness is the soothing balm that can heal regret. In meditation, we can imagine discussing the issue with the self of our past and offering our forgiveness for the choice. In return, we can ask for ourselves forgiveness for keeping them locked in that space of judgment for so long. We may also want to ask forgiveness from anyone else who may have been affected and perhaps offer our forgiveness. By replaying the event in our minds, we can choose a new ending using all that we now know. Imagine that you have actually gone back into the past and made this change, and then say goodbye to it. Release your former self with a hug and bring the forgiveness and love back with you to the present. Since we are usually our harshest critics, it is amazing how powerfully healing it can be to offer ourselves love.
Keeping our minds and our energy fully in the present allows us to fuel our physical and emotional healing and well-being today. This action frees our energy to create the dreams we dream for the future. By taking responsibility and action in the present, we can release our hold on the past.
I forgive the TT and I forgive myself...
WWYD? |
nabashalam
Senior Member
Username: nabashalam
Post Number: 1615
Registered: 1-2006
Posted From: 75.128.244.102
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 3:02 pm: |
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Now, My question is...
Can one adhere and fulfill Romans 12 surrounded by nothing but unbelievers and the "World"?
I know you are suppose to love with no expectations of anything but we are human and there is nothing like being with "those of your kind"...
Like Yoneq and Hillary Clinton say... "It takes a Community" or doesn't it??? |
unknownunsure
Member
Username: unknownunsure
Post Number: 52
Registered: 7-2007
Posted From: 71.49.198.243
| | Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 3:51 am: |
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At the risk of sounding like Bill Clinton and his poor excuse of an answer concerning the definition of "is"...this depends on your definition of fulfilling Romans 12 and depends on what your definition of "the world and unbelievers" is. Some will say anyone not a believer living in the "community" would be of the world. To that I would answer evidently not if they consider all outside the community as lost.
If your definition of "unbeliever or the world" is those not chosing to follow Christ's teachings, then yes, there are those who can fulfill the Scripture. |
nabashalam
Senior Member
Username: nabashalam
Post Number: 1620
Registered: 1-2006
Posted From: 75.128.244.102
| | Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 11:17 am: |
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Well, I didnt mean THE community as in the TT. I meant living in, for and amongst a "commune" of believers...
BTW Welcome back! I missed you guys in KY.!!! |
unknownunsure
Member
Username: unknownunsure
Post Number: 55
Registered: 7-2007
Posted From: 71.49.198.243
| | Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 10:58 pm: |
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I'm at the house in Vegas until tomorrow.
Tomorrow, God's Little acres!! KENTUCKY!! LOL |