{"id":2033,"date":"2013-06-08T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2013-06-08T11:16:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T17:16:42","slug":"no-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2013\/06\/no-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"No Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In a world geared toward achievement, goals, awards, and end points, we discover in love that in our seeking of it, there is no finish line.\u00a0 Sure you will have insights, or \u201cAHHA\u201d moments, but that is part of the unfolding process of love.\u00a0 Love is an everyday process, constantly expanding itself. Love is who you really are and so this expanding is nothing new, it is always happening, but in a culture that makes quick conclusions of things, quick labels, and judgments and then puts people in boxes, it is difficult to see that you are love. The world, meaning everything that is appearing outside of you is sleeping in ignorance.\u00a0 Because most people have thought it much simpler not to know themselves, hence, \u201cignorance is bliss\u201d, meaning you will be much happier not knowing the truth of who you are.\u00a0 Which is BS.<\/p>\n

It is\u00a0 easy to go to church or a spiritual center on Sunday and listen to the same things about Jesus or take part in the same rituals every Sunday then not live it.\u00a0 It is easier to quote ACIM, the Bible, Quran, Buddhist<\/a> texts, and not live it, but talk about it a lot.\u00a0 Religion has become a sport, and people believe their team is the best, yet if all the religions were to understand each other at the core, they would see that they have common ground and could be a force to be reckon with. That is why love is important, that is why love matters, it brings us closer and doesn\u2019t separate.<\/p>\n

We have 313 million people in America, can you imagine everyone self reflecting, contemplating, resting in stillness, and learning about themselves, the changes that would happen and how quickly, would be amazing.\u00a0 But we love separation, let me phrase that again,\u00a0 \u201cWe love fear\u201d, we do.\u00a0 We don\u2019t love love.\u00a0 That is disappointing. Because when you quiet down long enough, you realize that all is well and okay.\u00a0 And that love is simple, easy, hassle free.\u00a0 Love is quick with yes or no, it stands up to control and injustice.\u00a0 It is inclusive. Not exclusive.\u00a0 When was the last time you included yourself in something, or took yourself for a walk, or hike, or thanked yourself, or appreciated yourself.\u00a0 When was the last time you prayed to know the truth of who you are, beyond the circumstance.\u00a0 The whole point of this blog is that you can stop following the fear based herd, stop reading other people testaments of Truth and start walking it.\u00a0 Give yourself a break and stop changing people and stop looking for approval or proving.\u00a0 Stop worrying, worrying is a prayer of darkness we put on ourselves and our loved ones.\u00a0 It sends a message to them and ourselves that we don\u2019t trust them and we don\u2019t trust love. Worry is not love, it\u2019s fear of loving fully.<\/p>\n

Love has no finish line. I am sure if Jesus ever made an entrance on this planet he would be disappointed in everyone. He would probably say, \u201cStop following me and walk in love, that is what my message was and still is.\u00a0 Stop quoting me and live it for yourselves. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a world geared toward achievement, goals, awards, and end points, we discover in love that in our seeking of it, there is no finish line.\u00a0 Sure you will have insights, or \u201cAHHA\u201d moments, but that is part of the unfolding process of love.\u00a0 Love is an everyday process, constantly expanding itself. Love is who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1176,1064,62,82,1293,118,163,242,260,336,351,371,373,433,932,503,1390,530,942,725],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1176","tag-acim","tag-awareness","tag-bible","tag-buddhist","tag-christ","tag-david-matthew-brown","tag-forgive","tag-god","tag-jesus","tag-kindness","tag-life","tag-light","tag-mother-mary","tag-naked-mystic","tag-presence","tag-quran","tag-relationships","tag-the-naked-mystic","tag-wrestling-with-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}