People who wait around expecting to have 'faith' in wiinning the lottery or faith in 'God magically making their life better', putting their knight in shining armour or their beautiful princess right in front of their nose, may be very lucky if it happens -- may even be the lucky benefactor of 'fate'-- or they may end up 'Waiting for Godot' which means in effect wasting their life away while they are waiting...and nothing happens...
Perhaps best of all, relative to the 'relationship between God and Self, is the idea that 'God created each and everyone of us to succeed and to be hopeful, optimistic, and happy, as long as we continue to keep our mental-emotional (psychological) forces directed in a positive direction, and not aimed against ourselves and/or against others in a negative spirit of destruction and/or self-destruction.
We all need to endure hardship at one time or another and the greater this hardship is, the more we need to focus on holding onto this mutual 'faith' in the combined positive spirit -- and force -- of God and Self.
We all need to endure hardship at one time or another and the greater this hardship is, the more we need to focus on holding onto this mutual 'faith' in the combined positive spirit -- and force -- of God and Self.
-- dgb, Jan. 30th, 2011,
-- David Gordon Bain
