All my life, my mother had this ritual of writing down her prayers on a piece of paper. Every time when they were answered, she wrote the date of when it was answered on the back. She has a lot of these pieces of paper with dates on the back.
Over the last few days, I have created much of the same, in the form of a private blog online. Whenever I pray, or you may call it manifest something, I write it on this blog, because I believe in the power of words, but most importantly, I believe in the power of God to actually grant me those prayers. Yesterday I made a move on my Whatsapp and Facebook page, to anoint everybody that I cared about, and to wish them a wonderful day. OK, my day didn't pan out as I planned or hoped, but I believe that all of the people that I have blessed were blessed. I will keep on doing so, until the end of days. The Bible also challenges us to bless even our enemies, because that shows who you are and has nothing to do with who they are and what they do to you.
Throughout time, there has been the idea that life and the spiritual world has 2 poles, call it negative-positive, God-Satan, jing and jang, or in Star Wars terms, the bright side v the dark side. Every day and in every moment, you have a choice, whatever happens to you to think and talk on either side of these coins. It is your choice. People close to me, when things happen to us that makes us scared get very irritated when I state that everything will be all right. They absolutely hate it, because it sounds very wishy-washy, especially when there are no guarantees or probability in their minds that it will be. Maybe it is what I have experienced in the past, or my personality, I do not know, but I have this tendency to always choose to believe.
There is a lesson in that, because I believe in the power of belief, as I do the power of fear and the power of giving up. You walk among people every day, and you think that they have these perfect lives, but it is not always true. Everybody that you see has a story, or hardship or something that they are scared of. We learn from the Bible, other religious writings, yes and also Star Wars that we are lured by the Dark Side of life. Sometimes we feel forced by the realities of everyday life to go over to the dark side. I do not mean that we become Darth Vader, but there are moments when we fall into dis-belief, in negativity and despair. Choosing to stay there is a choice. For me personally, the dark side or the negative have absolutely no appeal. It eventually envelopes you, and you turn into Darth Vader, and once you are in that spiral, getting out is almost impossible.
Viktor Frankl has taught it that in every situation, you don't have a choice on what happens to you, but you do on how you react to it. You, yes you have control over what you are going to do with it. It is interesting how people often, in my experience, when you choose to be positive in a bad scenario, make you out to be unrealistic, or that you are putting your head in the sand. That is far from the truth, it is easier to be negative than positive. Being positive is a hard choice and hard work, and the result is that you draw from this power to look for a solution. For me, being negative in a bad scenario doubles or triples the situation. When I become negative, which often happens, I go into a spiral of deeper and deeper negative emotions.
I truly believe that this becomes easier, when you are a spiritual person and believe in God. I absolutely believe in the power of God, and I will not let the dark side make me to believe otherwise. With my whole heart, I believe that negativity is at it's core, something that wants to lead me on a path where I do not believe in the wonder of God and that God will not surrender me. That is why I write and why I post my prayers into the world, to proclaim to whatever that I will not surrender to it's power. I proclaim my birthright as a child of God that this is the domain of positivity, love, happiness and the light side, and that the light will always drive out the darkness. This darkness for you might be a spiritual battle or it might be an emotional individual fight, but for me, I drive all negativity out of my life. Make your words, may it be in your head, your heart or your prayers count. I make it count for the bright white light! Don't let this be true of you today:
"I find your lack of faith disturbing." – Darth Vader
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