Don't stop believing

Don't stop believe just because scorn and hurt penetrate our being.  Humanity is synonymous with fallibility; therefore our actions will bring about feelings of hurt, feelings of sadness, feelings of anger.   God does not cause any hurt, sadness or anger, these are merely conjurings of human emotions labeled as such that we may identify the foreign feeling and deal with them as instructed by human thought.  When a batter strikes out, they do not immediately turn in their uniform and quit; rather,  as practiced, they return to the bench wait for the final out of the inning and return to the field prepared to stop the opponent from advancing the score and when the line up calls for their return to the plate, they return with the intention of getting a hit.  So the question is, "Why, when something happens that was not intended, do we place blame and transfer our feelings upon God?"  Think about this for a moment, everything in the universe was set in motion, nature, humanity, both have free will and actions speak as such; so why, then, do we feel it necessary to project our feelings of distain, of hurt, of whatever negativity upon a God who offers nothing but healing, unconditional love?  Do we truly think that of the billions of people which roam this earth, God will pinpoint certain individuals with which He will expunge His wrath in the form of hurt feelings?  We need to get over ourselves and stop being so self-centered, we need to leave the egotistical thoughts behind for while God is completely capable of anything and everything, He will not infringe upon His promise and gift of free will.  All that befalls us, all that impedes upon our ideals of happiness, this is just life and while happiness is intermittently discovered,  the heart seeks joy.  Crushed by the one dimensional note of happiness, life becomes tainted; thinking joy impossible, we turn from the heart, evaluating each situation as a unique snipped of events when, in actuality, life is a continuous series of events intended to be evaluated by faith and executed with love.  Life cannot be evaluated by faith when the call of the heart becomes but a echo of the soul, distant and impersonal.  The execution of actions in love becomes impossible when love, in its purest and holiest of forms, is rejected as a impossibility.  To borrow words from Bonnie Raitt, "I can't make you love me, if you don't.  I can't make your heart feel, something it won't.  In these final hours, I'll lay down my heart and feel the power..."  Imagine God singing these words, imagine it, feel it...He offers us love, He opens His heart that we may feel connected, that we may know we are not alone but the questions arise, "Are we ready to feel?  Are we ready to accept this conditionless offering of love that we may be transformed from weary, narcissistic cynics who believe in the partiality of a promise into trusting, altruistic believers understanding of the fact that life happens.  Just imagine for a moment, if you will, God saying He will lay down His heart and feel the power...need a concrete image of this phrase?...look to the crucifix, He has said these words, He offered His life for us and yet we doubt, we disbelieve.  Crazy isn't it?  "He will lay down His heart and feel the power", the power of the heart, forever connected, forever bonded in love.  To feel this connection all we need do is accept His offering of love, it is that simple.  The difficulty arises when we allow our humanity to, once again, deflect this unconditional love and impose upon the heart conditions, conditions imposed by the mind, not by God.  When night falls, we do not stop believing the sun is going to shine so why, when sadness and hurt falls upon our lives, are we quick to discount our connection with God, quick to discount the possibility of unconditional love?  Human nature, I suppose.   In Greek mythology we find the story of Pandora and her releasing all the evils into the world, but with the evils, hope was released...hope, there is always hope for God's mere presence elicits greatness and stirs within us a joy which overwhelms the human mind.  Unfathomable, we wander thinking the incredible feeling of wholeness is a gimmick intended to distract us and so we put the feeling to the test.  Self inflicted sabotage after sabotage and yet the heart surrenders not; it only loves, it fills the soul with resounding joy as it rests in the promises of God.  Undaunting, the mind abrasively reacts that it may protect its interest of domination over the body; it infuses ridiculous notions of unbelievably and skews the idea of trust to the point where trust becomes feared and love becomes laughable.  Jaded, life continues in motion though now we are just the onlooker as the mind controls and manipulates our every action causing the notion of God as a sovereign ruler to eclipse Him as love.  Even when the mind shouts, the heart gently calls; it calls us to reconnect in love.  Truly accepting God's gift of love is difficult for we need to understand that this gift comes with only one stipulation...it is unconditional!  God's love overwhelms, it is intense in a most glorious, life altering way.  At first it may be too overwhelming and the mind will label it unreal...embrace God's love, dig deep and be enveloped in a love only God can offer; connect, be connected to a synergy of love and the notion of disbelieving will never again be a contaminating thought.  Don't stop believing for God's love heals all wounds.  Accept this love and life becomes a beauteous journey, not without its hills and valleys, not without injury from scorn, but a beauteous journey none-the-less, for blanketed with love, life is defined, it is purpose-filled.  "I can't make you love me, if you don't"...acceptance of love is on our shoulders though it is not a burden, just the opposite really, liberating us from the clutches of the mind, the stronghold of our humanity that we may deeply, intimately connect with God and become, ourselves, love.  No longer will we have a need for the rose-colored glasses for joy is loves playmate ensuring that, even with the deepest of cuts, life is grand.  "I will lay down my heart and feel the power"...don't stop believing in the amazing power of God and His awesome connection with us, His beloved.