Learn to live

[bluidkiti]

Learn to live
"Watch how I do it...learn to live."
Matthew 11:29-30 TM

You can study until your brain's turned blue, you can work a 48 hour day, you can even try to put the world to rights in your own dinner hour, but if you're not spending time with God, what's it all about? What's it all for? It's good to try your best, but if you're overly focused on winning, you're going to end up fried like bacon. Surely, there's more to life than just results, Jesus said, 'Are you tired? Worn out?...Come to me...recover your life. I'll show you how...work with me - watch how I do it...learn to live freely and lightly.' Sounds good, doesn't it but it calls for detoxing your thinking and reprogramming it. If your head's frazzled, ask yourself "What are my priorities here?" What's the point of elbowing your way to the top, if its at the expense of your mates, time, church and family? Remember, you're a human being not human doing. Sometimes you just need to be, rather than do. If you're just trying to impress with success, you're missing the whole point. Life is so much more than gaining and getting. Jesus could have rubbed people's noses in it, how so much better he was at miracles and stories than everybody else. But he wasn't interested in fame, he was too into what mattered to fall for that nonsense. Sometimes we need to relearn how to really live.
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[MajestyJo]

Just the title alone is worth listening too. When we are using, we are not living. We are marking time and our focus is on our drug of choice. It becomes our God.

It is one thing to read the words, but take the words off the page and apply it to your life. It is one thing to know and another to live it.

I can give up on life, sit back and say, `God you do all things, you make it all better and make it go away.` That is not living.

Life is making the best of what you have. Don`t focus on what you don`t have. Give thanks for what you do have. Think about where you were at when you came into recovery.

If you want more, don`t think of your drug of choice, make your God your choice and choose to live your life.

I asked for help. I got Health Care coming in bandaging my feet, I have a physiotherapist coming in, a wound nurse coming tomorrow, a chiropractor that I see tomorrow (if it wasn`t for him, I wouldn`t be walking today. He also saved my sanity when I suffered from migraines), it is about doing the do things to help myself. I prayed and my God opened the doors. It was up to me to walk through them.