When I began this blog, I planned to explore my thoughts about how prayer could enrich my life and make my life less stressful. Along the way, I realized that many of my posts confessed my faults to the whole world. Luckily, I have avoided broadcasting the worst of my faults. The reason I journalize my slipups is that I need that awareness of myself. I need to know what I am doing wrong before I can learn and train myself to do it right.
There are many people who have passed through my life who are strongly opposed to admitting their wrongs. They claim that it is dwelling in the past. They say that it is obsessing on the negative. But self-awareness is not obsessive if it’s done in the right way.
I need to simply state to myself that which I know to be wrong with my actions. Next I need to figure out why I do those things. Then I can pray for the help I need to overcome that error in my life and move onward and upward.
Whether you believe in heaven or not, whether you believe in an eternal reward or not, it is still necessary for the human spirit to make progress on its life’s journey. Only then does peace of heart and mind settle in and soothe the soul.
Help me, Dear Lord, to sense what I am doing wrong according to your laws, and then help me to sense your guidance so that I may overcome these faults.
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