I woke up today feeling, very uncomfortable, uncomfortable physically, and uncomfortable emotionally. That kind of place where you want to simply return to the bed, and hide under the covers. Hiding under the covers didn't seem appealing either today, it didn't seem especially comfortable there either.
And in that I really didn't feel anything much beyond what I was feeling, and the idea of managing anything was tedious and a chore. Simply, today was just BLAH!!! The best thing about the day was and is that nighttime comes, which means sleeping, and tomorrow comes to replace it.
This is only one facet of reality, and it is these snippets of reality that we must learn to accept when we incorporate spirituality consciously into our life. Usually spirituality is incorporated into our lives in one of three ways. We incorporate it via religious means, it is incorporated as a avenue to better mental health, or as a philosophy. It does not matter what approach you wish to take, all three routes steer you to a place of being that sits outside the shell of everyday life.
Spirituality is not a replacement for everyday life, but it is one incredible enrichment. But if you have a day like I have had today, being spiritual is really not the first thing in mind. And often you will forget altogether that you are trying to be a spiritual person.
This is the reality, if you decide to commit to making it a habit in life in being a spiritual person you will regularly deal with the fact that life and spirituality will have a seemingly oil and water relationship. Even Jesus, as he walked with us as a Man had to deal with this. The most telling in this is his night in the Garden.
Jesus had a serious home court advantage over you and I, so if he had to work with this reality, we will most certainly be wading through it, sometimes moment by moment.
We operate in this life via five senses, everything we do, everything we respond to, and everything that happens to us is filtered through these senses. Once all that input is filtered, we have our world. Spirituality allows us to see that there is a reality, and an existence that is beyond our five sense world. But in order for us to take this in, and to process these facts, we can only take spirituality into ourselves in small, metered doses.
And there are times where spirituality asks us to operate in a manner that seems completely the opposite of the Logic we know. To gain, we must be willing to loose, and so on.
So, smarty pants, what do we do about all that? Huh!?
The answer is, you do not do anything about it. It is something that is not in our capacity to change, we are what we are. And it is just what it is, in order to have a gain over the oil and water seeming relationship, we simply must accept it as it is.
Once you accept that fact, it is important to remember that you should try to avoid falling into the trap of measuring your spiritual progress based on your present perception of the moment. You wake up mad, and the world seems like a pile of animal excrement, and everybody seems to be sub human that day, and you find that you did indeed act like a jerk because of that, well truthfully who would not, on a day like that? This does not mean you've lost yardage in the spiritual life you're trying to live. The reality is quite the contrary, you've gained much simply by hanging on, and making it through the day without eliminating that jerk in front of you.
We are Human, we will fall short as far as being benevolent and perfect. Be ok with that, when you understand you missed your personal mark, don't shoot yourself in the head, instead take a few moments and seek to learn about that missing of the mark.
So when you have a day like mine..it is ok. It does not mean anything, except that you're Human, and that you are real. And it most certainly does not mean you are a failure, and a waste of Human Life.
Stand strong, behave strongly, even when feeling weak, and you will be strong always.
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