Message #42771

[guest587]

If you're asking me to answer my question- it is this,

I do not believe in fighting wars outside my self. I consider it more dutiful to find peace and faith in God than to kill other human beings. Men, Women... Children...

I am doing a justice to the world by not killing- by meditating, by practicing kindness and by sharing Gods Love as I come to understand it. I also believe I am liberating my self from the worlds drama, the continual churning of the wheel.

Personally, I think War is a tale as old as man- and by participating in it, you continue your life in the drama. You can source the GITA all you want- justify whatever you need. I am talking about my personal belief, and you are not forced to practice what I believe.

There may come a time where action is spurred from me and I am behaving differently from what I am writing. This is where I'm at right now.

I hope you watch the movie Man of God, I just shared it. People accuse him of so many things- doing nothing, not speaking up. Except that never stopped him from being Good to others and those around him. People begged him to take a place on the worlds stage- instead he worked miracles in places nobody wanted. God used him in ways different than what he wanted and what people expected.

People will accuse you of anything- I've experienced it, and recently- and thankfully I am not so attached that I feel I belong to this reality they are painting. But I notice, whether we want to or not, we are used in ways we don't always want or expect. And people form their meanings about us, for themselves... And they usually don't see us but something inside themselves that needs understanding.

By continuing to practice what I believe in, I am freed from the associations even if the other is totally convinced in their line of reasoning. It doesn't matter to me, it only matters I continue to seek, experience and learn God.

I had a young man threaten me with a gun on black friday last year. I had the option to pull him into me and physically defend myself. Instead I looked in his eyes and felt the Lord. He ended up walking away. Yes he was cussing up a storm and probably assumed I was some submissive push over. But no one was hurt, and both of us got to walk away and experience another day. I thank God for his blessings regularly...