An EASY life is BORING!

"Be not the slave of your own past-

plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I recently came across the below words from Maston Kipp, 

a spiritual adviser and blogger that truly touched my heart!

 With our doubt. With our terrified selves who would rather die than open up and be hurt again.

Well I’m sorry - pain is a part of life. And those who can tolerate, understand and eventually come to terms with pain are the ones who rise above the rest. Life is simple, but life is not easy. It’s freakin’ hard. But so what? Since when was life supposed to be easy? Who told us this and why did we believe it?

Just because you are spiritual, doesn't mean you get it easy. It’s BECAUSE you are spiritual that you get even MORE crap thrown on you, ‘cuz The Divine knows you can handle it.

We don’t get a finely tuned body by being lazy. We get it by LITERALLY ripping our muscles apart and allowing them to heal back together, stronger.

I've come to believe that resistance is the force that keeps us alive. Without resistance, without friction we do not and cannot live to the fullest.

It is AGAINST the wind that the airplane flies. It is FRICTION that allows us to walk the earth. It is getting uncomfortable that allows us to grow beyond the discomfort.

Yes, my friends, GRACE is real. GRACE HAPPENS. You are SURROUNDED by GRACE, but it doesn't mean you get an easy lot in life. Hear me - you think you do, but you actually DON’T want it easy. An easy life is BORING. In an easy life, there is NO GROWTH, NO VARIETY, nothing to be earned. In an easy life, you die in your comfort zone with unrealized dreams.

So how are you showing up to life? Are you showing up entitled because it’s “so hard”? Or are you looking the friction, the resistance and the hard times dead in the face with GRATITUDE and PRAISE shouting OUT LOUD, “THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME BETTER, STRONGER and showing me HOW POWERFUL I TRULY AM”?

Hear me my friends, how you MEET and DEAL and GIVE MEANING to resistance is how successful you will be in life. If you resent it, or are entitled and bratty and think it shouldn't be this way – enjoy being an observer of life. BUT – if you meet RESISTANCE with the KNOWING and the CERTAINTY that YOU and THE DIVINE got this, and instead of saying “WHY ME?” you say “TRY ME!” – you can count that eventually you will be welcomed into the realm of those who have the PRIVILEGE to live their dreams.

So, how are you showing up for life today?

I am done being an Observer!!!

I am going to live my Dreams and make the most of this Blessed life I have had!

Another Beautiful Masterpiece from God at the Lake!!!!