Thoughts After Breakfast

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

  Sometimes my breath is taken away; not from doing an exorbitant amount of physical activity, but rather from thoughts and memories that resurface in subtle ways either in my sleep or during my waking hours.  I am sometimes amazed as to how much I have seen and done in my 57 years of life on this earth. Granted, it isn't nearly as much as some have experienced throughout their own lives, but to me it's monumental. 

  This morning, after breakfast, I sit here in my bed not knowing exactly what I want to write but at the same time my mind is full of thoughts. Although I have known God and many things of God I still cannot keep up with Him. He is continually blowing my mind with signs and wonders that are too deep for me to even begin to fathom.  The only true solace I have as I blindly follow Him in faith is the assurance that he will never leave me nor will he ever forsake me. In His presence I have experienced both riches and poverty, pleasure and pain, sadness and joy, fellowship and loneliness, love and betrayal.  Throughout the gamut of these circumstances I have found no better place to be than in His shadow where I know I will suffer no harm. 

  As I write these affirmations the sun outside has burst through my bedroom window in a most spectacular way. It's as if God is saying "I am here and I will warm your heart with my presence and I will dash your fears with my promises".  Suddenly I can vividly see my lack become plenty. I see my needs met and my desires fulfilled. I feel my body regenerating and my mind rising above the clouds. My five senses are more attuned than they have ever been and I crave no substance that is harmful or a detriment to my body. God is continually rebuilding me where I have been torn down. His work is so meticulous within me that it reaches down to my most base emotions. 

  It has been said that the greatest fear is the fear of change. This is true and it is also the reason many never rise above a mediocre and mundane existence. They stay with what is safe and with what is familiar; not willing to break the generational cycle of normalcy that has been demonstrated in their lives for generations.  I recently began eating foods that I have always considered to be distasteful or unpleasant to the eye. I avoided these foods for decades; primarily because they were not the foods that I grew up eating as a child.  By accepting this change in my diet I have realized just how much I had been depriving myself of the abundance of richness contained in these foods.  I now break the chain of normalcy, complacency and comfort in my whole life.

  Be brave today. Be bold and be daring. Be willing to step outside of the norm and try new things; exciting and different things. Do not allow anyone to keep you contained in a box. He who the Son sets free is free, indeed.

I love you all,
Dennis