Meditations on God

Through Your Fear
If you avoid that which you fear long enough, your fear does not go away; that which you avoid begins to multiply.

When you give into fear, not only does your fear grow stronger, but it also begins to spread.

You start to find that you fear more things than you once did.

Fear is strengthened by our giving in, our backing down, and our running away.

As your fear becomes stronger, it begins to latch onto different aspects of your life.

What you once faced with confidence now causes you trepidation, hesitation, and worry.

Soon, you become trapped by fear, frozen in its clutches, unable to enjoy your life.

The only way out of this trap of isolation and despair is through your fear.
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October 20, 2023

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Focus On Progress
Focus on progress, not achievement.

Achievement is temporary.

Not only that, the satisfaction felt from achievement is fleeting.

The more you achieve, the further away contentment seems to get.

Progress, on the other hand, is always available to you so long as you seek it.

And progress’s satisfaction is repeatable.

With a mind focused on steady, incremental progress, you can find contentment in the journey.

Progress is not a straight path, however, nor is it without its obstacles and challenges, but it is a path of meaning and fulfillment.

In the end, progress may be all we truly have.
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October 19, 2023

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The Change You Aim To Make
Be careful to not let other people’s negativity ruin the good you are trying to do in the world.

Negativity can be contagious.

This is especially true if you are a sensitive person who is easily influenced by other people’s emotions and agendas.

In this way, empathy can actually cause problems.

Generally, empathy is considered to be a good thing, but it can also make you susceptible to feeling what others feel when you do not want to and when it does not serve you.

In order to protect yourself from unwanted outside influences, you have to establish and maintain boundaries that allow you to keep your feelings yours and other people’s feelings theirs.

Otherwise, you may find yourself fighting someone else’s fight instead of living in your own peace.

It helps to know your why.

Knowing your purpose, your reason for doing what you are doing, helps to keep you aligned with who you are so that you do not get caught up in and distracted by the emotions and agendas of others.

By knowing what you want to accomplish in your life and in the world around you, and having a clear understanding of and commitment to your reason for wanting this, you will be less susceptible to emotional and intellectual persuasion, intentional or not.

Establish your why, plot your course, and get to work, and do not let the negativity of others distract you from the change you aim to make.
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October 18, 2023

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Understanding And Conflict
An unwillingness to understand other people’s perspectives will keep you in a state of unnecessary conflict.

If you care more about what you think, how you feel, how you perceive things than you do about what others think, how others feel, and how they perceive things, you will find that you experience a lot of misunderstandings.

This is not to say that you must agree with everyone in order to avoid unnecessary conflict.

You are entitled to your own ideas, feelings, and experiences.

You need not conform to the feelings, beliefs, or opinions of others in order to get along with them, but it does help to try to understand them.

This means trying to see the world from their perspective.

If you can put yourself in the shoes of others, you are more likely to come to an understanding with them than you are to have unnecessary conflict with them.

Most misunderstandings are preventable if only you are more willing to listen than you are insistent on talking, but this is easier to know than it is to do.
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October 17, 2023

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Trying To Win
Not trying to win is a means of protecting yourself against loss.

If you never put it on the line, if you never take a risk, you will not experience the pain and frustration that comes from losing.

You will also never experience the lessons, challenges, and struggles that push you to improve.

The perceived security that accompanies never really trying may feel like safety, but it is also stagnation.

You cannot make dramatic changes in your life and your person without vulnerability and without risking failure.

The most profound and permanent growth comes from the pain of giving your all and coming up short.

These experiences and their subsequent lessons are what shape your character, give you the courage to try new things, and fuel the fire for growth and improvement so that you do not have to feel this pain again.

But if you continue to test yourself, if you continue to put it on the line, and you continue to take courageous and vulnerable action, you will feel the pain of failure many times over.

The alternative is to feel nothing at all.

Not trying to win, in whatever arena you choose to step into, is tantamount to stealing from yourself, as you are robbing yourself of the opportunity to test and expand your limitations.

If you do not risk loss, you cannot truly live.
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October 16, 2023

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Through Your Fear

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Focus On Progress

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The Change You Aim To Make

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Understanding And Conflict

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Trying To Win

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