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Every Day is a Celebration For the God-conscious

Times Of India

 

We awake each morning not knowing what to expect from the day ahead.

Will it bring good fortune or pain? This uncertainty creates feelings

of fear and instability. How is one to deal with daily life when one

is filled with uncertainty? Mystics and saints view life from a

higher angle. They recommend that we live each moment with full trust

in the Lord.

 

Trust in the Lord requires a conviction that there is an unseen power

who created this world and who created us. It means having knowledge

that our soul has been created by God, and its journey is under God's

will. It requires conviction that God has sent us into the world for

a purpose and our destiny is to fulfil that purpose. This means that

we cannot leave this earth before our destined time comes. It means

that certain events that happen to us are also preordained by God,

and that what happens is already laid out for us. It also means that

we have been given some free will in which we can make some choices.

 

Some of what happens to us each day is God's will. We also have free

will to choose, and we can make choices that are going to be

beneficial to us and those around us.

 

Our journey in life is a process of evolution of the soul. Sooner or

later the soul is destined to return to God. The end goal that God

has for us is that we attain this freedom. At the right moment, we

get a helping hand when we think all is lost.

 

Ernest Shackleford dreamed of crossing Antarctica by dog sled, a

2,100-mile journey. Shackleford and his team began the journey.

Unfortunately, the boat taking them to Antarctica hit an ice pack and

sank. Luckily, the men survived, but they found themselves in waters

with drifting ice floes. The nearest land was 200 miles away. The

nearest human outpost was 1,200 miles away.

 

They salvaged a one-ton lifeboat which they pulled with them,

crossing from one ice floe to another. When they reached an area that

did not have anymore ice floes, they got into the lifeboat, but the

waves were often 90 feet high. Somehow, they made it to an island of

ice, which had never been crossed before. It took them seven months

to reach civilisation. When they finally arrived, they told their

friends that they felt the presence of an unseen power guiding them

on.

 

The beauty of God's unseen hand is that sometimes we actively pray

for help and receive it, but there are many times when we do not even

ask for help, and help comes anyway. These times are reminders to us

that we are not alone.

 

One way to feel God's presence is to meditate. The energy emanating

from God is a principle that manifests as light and sound. The light

is greater than any light one experiences on earth. The sound is a

divine melody that reverberates without instruments or vocal chords.

 

The more consciousness there is, the more ethereal the sound. Let us

make everyday a celebration. The next time we feel helpless and

alone, let us remember that God's arms are around us. Let us offer

thanks for the myriad ways in which God's love surrounds and protects

us.

 

Every Day is a Celebration For the God-conscious

Times Of India