Pain is the shit that people dump in your garden hoping it will make your heart harden. If you have love for them and always pardon, what they leave will fertilize your seeds if you have the courage to tend to your garden.
Tending to your Garden
Michael J. Merritt
The Beam that’s in our Eye
Before you cast a stone, make sure you have the courage to let your sin be known. Those that are quick to cast a stone at their neighbor’s sin do not have the courage to face what makes their light grow dim within.
The Fire
When your heart tiresOur Lord will save you from the adversary’s fireAnd, an eternity of wandering through the mireAs you turn to prayerYour adversary will burn in their own fire.
Faith
Faith is walking forward with love and hope in all parts of your soul. When you can’t see God, but always feel him making you whole. It’s walking forward to a place that you see in your heart, even when everything around you is falling apart. When you feel your back is against the Red […]
Focus on God
Everything of this world is noise. We think we know what we want, but only God knows what we need. If we focus and commit everything in our life to God, and walk his path everything we need will be given to us. From that we will find everything we have ever wanted.
Physical Form
If we as humans do not follow what we believe in, then we are nothing more than carbon and water filling a glass in a moment in time.
Our World, Our Life
The world does not exist, only the reality we create for ourselves. The reality we create for ourselves is based upon the love or hate we have in our hearts, and how we interact and attract the people and objects around us. The reality we create and perpetuate over time is our life.
The Adversary’s Fire
Never waste your time or your energy setting fire to the castles of those opposed to your success, growth, and joy. Focus all of your energy into loving and protecting those around you and building a stronger castle that represents you. The fire that fuels the adversary’s war machine will eventually burn out or consume […]
Leading with Love
When you care for those opposed to you with love you lead. When you handle them with anger you follow. There are no enemies in this life, except the ones we create or fuel.
Living Life as Your True Self
When you speak the truth and you live the truth. Your life is truth. Everything that is in it is there because it represents you. When you live a life of lies your life becomes cluttered with things that bring you misery. Even if the lie was originated because that person or object brought you […]
