Meditations on God

Protect Your Peace
Don’t give your peace away.

You worked hard to earn it and you will have to work equally hard to maintain it.

Don’t give it away frivolously to every frustration and irritation that comes your way.

Do not allow anger, fear, jealousy, or envy to distract you from what matters.

Life is unfair, people will treat you poorly, and things will not always go your way.

You cannot control everything that happens, but you can decide to who you want to be in the midst of it.

Protect your peace like your peace depends on it.

PROTECT YOUR PEACE
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
Meditations of a Gentle Warrior

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June 22, 2024

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Great Mentors
The help you needed may be different than the help others need from you.

It is an honorable thing to be for others the kind of mentor that you needed yourself.

This is a noble goal and a powerful way to be of service.

As you grow, however, you may find this strategy to be extremely limiting.

Not everyone needs what you needed.

Instead of trying to be who you needed, the higher calling is to be who others need, but this requires a greater amount of compassion and wisdom because it means looking past and feeling beyond yourself.

Good mentors serve who they once were, but great mentors serve who is in front of them.

GREAT MENTORS
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
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June 21, 2024

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Pride And Ignorance
You don’t have to have all of the answers.

You simply have to know where to look for them.

No one is an expert in every subject.

What experts know that most people don’t is who to ask for the answers they don’t have.

In the search for truth, your task is not to know everything, but to admit that you do not.

Ignorance is excusable, as we are all more ignorant than we know.

Pride, however, will keep you ignorant when you need not be and that is a tragedy.

PRIDE AND IGNORANCE
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
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June 20, 2024

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Trust The Process
You can’t judge your progress by comparing yourself to others.

You have to do what is right for you.

Follow your own conscience.

You are being called to a purpose that is uniquely your own.

Others may not understand.

You may not even understand.

Following your calling requires faith and faith requires courage.

TRUST YOUR CALLING
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
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June 19, 2024

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Malicious Intent
Don’t assume malicious intent.

It’s usually not the case.

Most people are trying their best to do their best.

They aren’t intentionally trying to hurt you.

In fact, it is way more likely that they aren’t even thinking about you at all.

They are too busy thinking about themselves and their lives to plot against you.

Give people the benefit of the doubt and know that those who intentionally hurt you are the exception, not the rule.

MALICIOUS INTENT
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
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June 19, 2024

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