SELF HONESTY

Today (thank God) was one of those days I enjoyed waking up. Normally I'd wake up to some commotion going on or I'd just not feel like waking up, but today I had a sense of excitement and thrill about carrying out my scheduled tasks. But then something happened....

I looked in the mirror... :S

For many people (unless you are divinely gorgeous) your 'morning face' as they put it, isn't the best thing to look at lol. I actually kind of scared myself a bit and if I didn't know better I would have had to ask "who is this?" Now stick with me here I'm going somewhere with this. Honestly I would rather look at myself and see my 'morning face' than to have a stranger see it and go tell people about it or worst yet, take a photo of it. :-o

So my question to us today (yes including myself) is: How closely do we really look at ourselves in the mirror? When is the last time that we were truely honest with ourselves? (I know that was more than one question) But have you ever seen a baby and at first sight you knew it was ugly (honestly speaking) and the mother is like "O my baby is so pretty, she looks like her dad" (lol, that's probaly why she said she looks like her dad) Have you ever seen that? Now in those cases it is understadable to say the child is pretty but we as adults say that about ourselves sometimes when we know down right that our lives are uglyyy and I mean hideous!!

One of the things we need to keep daily, is a constant awareness of who we really "are" and not necessarily who we "want" to be! It's all good and dandy to think of the future but you will not get there unless you know where you are at present!!!! So I've got a little experiment for us:

1. Get a mirror or stand in front of one
2. Look at yourself, follow the curvature of your face, see your facial marks etc.
3. Take a good look at who you really are and what you really look like
4. Now think of your life and ask yourself 'who am I?' each time you do
5. Think of your attitude, relationships, talents, and all the areas you could think off.
6. At this point accept what "is" This is not the place to condemn or praise yourself but the place to take mental note of who you are.

After completing this exercise I"m sure you are now in a greater realization of yourself. As God would say, judge yourself before He has to or someone else does.

And, YES, I've done this and many times. It has helped me alot! Getting to know who you are, what you do and accepting what "is" will help you on your quest to moving on from glory to glory.

Ahhh.. so this is my two cents for today. Hope it was interesting enough to read and try out. :)

- Jaiyad :)

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Imagine with me for a second......

We're on this long journey to a place that we've only heard about. We do not know what it really looks like, but all we have is a hunch. At the beginning of our journey all we had were hopes, we were full of faith, vigor and ready to tackle any battle, but then something happened. Maybe we took a wrong turn or in fact we took the right turn and ended up in a place we didn't know we'd have to go through.

This is life. All we really know is the beginning and the end. But the middle is never shared with us. And so somehow we find ourselves stuck in the middle or so we think we are. Maybe we're actually moving but not opening our selves enough to see that we are. Sometimes we're so focused on the things that aren't right and on the things we wanted that we lost. However, what about a re-adjustment of focus?

If we are going to succeed in the "middle" of the journey, this is what it will take. I'm in the middle, well more like in the beginning of the middle but so are you. No one is going to take off our feet and walk for us. We gotta do it ourselves. No point in fussing or arguing or getting depressed, cause when we're through being childish, guess what? we're still in the same place!!! or worst yet further behind... Get yourself together. I'm ah get myself together. Pull your emotions one side and say "look here boy, we gotta do this and we doing this, now march!" Don't get stuck in the middle. It's so much better at the end. :)

They say life is about the journey and I can agree. But I believe in both: the journey and the 'end' because at the end of every journey is a new beginning and then we continue.

So.. this is my thought for today, just something I was thinking about. How about you, what do you have to say?

- Jaiyad :)