(05-13-2024, 03:21 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote:(05-13-2024, 01:03 PM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: I did come back to love and peace. I started to feel that warm embrace of the Lord. I felt his presence again. The Spirit of the Lord came over me like a warm blanket. I was not alone anymore.
That does a good job of explaining it. Trying to explain it can be difficulty. Because His presence is ephemeral, yet it has a definite weight, that you don't just sense, but you can feel.
Being human comes with a lot of shortcomings. Working through them, overcoming them, making them work, may be why we can still be in good favor.
This conversation made me remember something. Way back. Way, way back, when I was in University, I was working a project in the lab. One of my classmates got an A on her project and I got a B-.
I was freaking out, because I knew mine was better. So I asked the professor why she got an A and I got a B-.
He told me that my classmate had done better than he had expected from her, but that I was capable of doing better.
I asked him if I could repeat the project, he asked me why I wanted to repeat the assignment. I told him I wanted to see if I could do it better. He told me I could repeat it, but I would keep my original grade.
I repeated the assignment, and realized I could do it better. My professor did not change the grade of the original project, but he gave me an extra grade for taking on the challenge of doing a better job on the in project, and another extra grade, for being able to identify why the original was lacking. So I ended up with an A+.
One important lesson I learned from my grandmother and reinforced by my professor.
"Any job worth doing is worth doing your best."
A little off topic, but our talk pulled this out a dusty corner of my memory.
I've been out of the mind frame I was in stated in the OP. That was about a month ago now that I've come out of that "dark night."
Since then, I have been experiencing major synchronicity. I've experienced it before, but never this frequent, this strong, and this specific. This has been going on since I stepped out of that darkness. I could tell the universe (God) was showing me he was there, in his mysterious ways.
What you just wrote rung a bell...
My granny, and my mom, always taught me, "If you're going to do something, do it right....or don't do it at all." Is what they always said.
I learned and faced myself, my "flaws" and saw who I was from every angle. I realized that, a lot of times what we view as a burden, is actually a blessing in disguise.
My path now will involve me learning to use my "weaknesses" as my strengths.
I'm not sure how, at this moment in time, but this will be added to my Spiritual Walk.
When I read that last statement, it was if my granny had reminded me of that lesson; and how it applies here as well.
Thanks NightskyeB4Dawn. You're name represents where I'm at in this spiritual journey.
(05-13-2024, 03:12 PM)SomeJackleg Wrote: reading the posts this verse from this tune came to mind.
Quote:Time was drifting
This rocker got to roll
Restless feeling, really got a hold
I started searching for a better way
and the tune and it's got more cow bell
Lmao. That's one of my favorite skits, and I'm always asking for "more cowbell" from my associates. Lol
Good song too. Thanks for sharing that thought.
They live.
We sleep.
We sleep.