The Revitalization of my Life-Day 22

Today was yet another off day and I decided to work a little on my writing. I am also performing some of my poetry tomorrow, so I have to make sure that I practice, practice, practice! With my mind on the event tomorrow and my novel, I was thinking to myself, "what can I write about in my blog?" Then I received an email from a lady asking me a question. The question was, "What do you do when you have done all that you can do?" It took me by surprise because this lady is a lady of great statue. She seems to always have it together. She is at the top of her game within her career and well respected within the city and state. I disregarded the email at first, but then I thought about it. If she is emailing me and asking for my advice, then I should at least give it to her. I shouldn't deny a person any advice because of their status.

I really didn't know what to tell her. I was sitting, racking my brain trying to come up with a sophisticated answer and then it hit me-just answer the question as if she was any old ordinary person, in which she is. I told her, "Do what God always do for you...keep forgiving and keep blessing!" I never received a response from her so I don't know how well this helped her out but it doesn't matter because I did what I was suppose to do and that's just try to guide her in the right direction as God has been guiding me for all of these years. But then after emailing her, I thought about a question that I want to pose to you. Why do we ask God for all that we ask him for, riches, happiness, peace, love, etc. But never ask him for the ability to forgive like he forgives us? Is it because we want to be bitter when the opportunity presents itself? Or is it because we feel as if we just don't have the power to forgive like God does. It's almost as if that's the one thing that we just give up on. I ask people this question all the time and I receive similar answers when I ask. But what gets me is that we tend to forget that we have done or are doing the things that others are doing to us and can't seem to come up with a solution as to how to stop it.

I am not a guru of knowledge and I don't claim to know all of the answers, but I think I might have this one. I think if we can let go of our PRIDE and just really think about all of the WRONG that we have done and how we changed and became better people, then we can get over this hump of really forgiving people for doing wrong. We are not PERFECT and we can't expect for others to be either. If we would just take the time to think about what it is that is going on in our life. I mean really sit and think about it. Set aside some time to yourself-20 min-1hr. Turn off the television, turn off your cell phone and just sit and think about what it is that is going on within your life. When you really get deep in thought to the point where you forget where you are, then you can think about a solution that will best benefit you and your spouse or who ever it is that you have an ill mood towards.

If you can dedicate an hour to a television show that provides no substance to increasing your lifestyle at all, you can surely give yourself 20 mins to really think about what's going on in your life. I would love for you to try this and come back to this blog and comment that it didn't work. I would love for you to prove me wrong. All you have to do is just try it, and see what happens. It doesn't cost you anything to sit by yourself with no noise and think. It's FREE! If this doesn't help you become a more tranquil person over a period of a week, I will pay you myself! But you have to do exactly as follows:
1. Turn off television and cell phone
2. Get in a comfortable position
3. Close your eyes and start thinking about your problem
4. Once you fall into deep thought, think of a solution.
5. Spend as much time on the solution as you did the problem
6. Picture yourself solving the problem
7. Then just relax and think about nothing but peace.

Start off doing this for 20 minutes and then increase your time until you get to an hour. Once you reach one hour, you will see why you don't need to go pass the hour mark! But in order to find out why not, you have to start with the 20 minutes first!


"Thinking doesn't cost anything but time and time is FREE"-K.J Swint