SPIRIT BEST LIFE

Before I start watching today's Oprah about living your best life spiritually, I want to go on the record as saying I believe our spiritual path is our most important path and can only be truthfully walked by embracing the Lord Jesus.  I have been working my spiritual life for years and am so thankful for a patient God.  I thank Him too for the grace He has shown me in my life and for the grace I have seen in so many others.  I embrace all ways of growing spiritually and am glad Oprah is reminding us to do that.  Pray for truth before you start your journey; no sense going down a faulty path.

Oprah sees spiritually as being connected, present, and alive.  To understand why we are really here.  It is amazing that many people never ask that question.  How can you not want to answer that or know that there is more than just this physical and material world?  The first reverend  on the show stated that the doorway to being connected and forgiven is being fully and unconditionally loved.  WOW!! I love that.  That doorway can help us to ask what's my purpose? Who am I? Where do we go when we die?  Spiritually answers "is this all there is?"  It's amazing to me that people don't want these answers.  Or maybe they do but are afraid to ask.  How can you find answers without first asking the questions? Hey, that's a question too.  A great start.  Finding your purpose also makes you able to say it's okay no matter what comes your way.  Being connected to God, living in your purpose becomes your foundation, not the circumstance. 

Next up: guests who are struggling spiritually.  How about when you are scared in these tough financial times? You start with what is working.  Be thankful to God for what you do have.  Now understand that you are being called to give birth to a new part of your spiritually that can only come out during such a time as this.  It may not be the choice you would make for yourself (and sometimes I don't even think it's the choice God would have for you), but it can be an opportunity to learn and grow spiritually.  You aren't being punished, but given a chance to learn.  In every crisis, we can expect something old to pass away and something new to come.   False identities, old habits; these can fall away and we can let go of them during the rough times.  And yes, very hard to embrace these truths in the midst of disaster; but maybe they can give enough hope to persevere. 

Another guest had both arms and legs amputated after having a baby and getting a life threatening infection.  This woman did not ever ask why me.   She focused on what she did have, which was the chance at a life with her children.  That's focusing on purpose not circumstance.  That's letting the old pass away and moving into something new. Do you want a new year? Do you want to live your best life? Well, you can't do that without addressing your spiritual self.  Make a spiritual resolution this year.  Seek the face of God and you will find your purpose and then find the grace to fulfill it.