God's Abiding Love

Written by Neale Donald Walsch


Neale Donald Walsch - God's Abiding Love

People often ask me what arerepparttar most important things that I have gotten fromrepparttar 128886 Conversations with God material.

I thinkrepparttar 128887 most important thing I have gotten out ofrepparttar 128888 books was a deep sense of God's abiding love. I have learned in an extraordinary way of God's unremitting, unconditional love and total acceptance of us... evenrepparttar 128889 worst of us. This came through to me even as I was "writing"repparttar 128890 books byrepparttar 128891 bare fact that I was writing them. I mean, byrepparttar 128892 earthly standards of many people (including my own), I amrepparttar 128893 last person who deserves to have been chosen to put this information into a series of books. Yet I was chosen, and I have put it into book form. So by that measure alone, I am clear that God loves without condition; that God rejects not evenrepparttar 128894 least orrepparttar 128895 worst of us, and that all we need do to understand and experience that salvation is to accept it, claim it, honor it, and hold it as true.

Now there are those who disagree with me. Many, in fact, who do. They say that God's word and God's law and God's love is worthless and pointless if there was no such thing asrepparttar 128896 possibility of God's rejection. They say thatrepparttar 128897 only way to God is through obedience to God's commands, adherence to God's laws, and - in some theological constructions - acceptance of God's Son. Failure to do any or all of these things means certain damnation, they say, and we'd better be aware of that, and ready for it, because we'll get what's "coming to us" if we don't watch out. In fact, we not only had better watch out, we'd better not cry. We'd better not pout... I'm tellin' you why...

Oh... sorry... that's a different myth. You see? Every myth we create, we create around a system of Judgment; around a construction of Reward and Punishment. It is inconceivable to us that there is a being inrepparttar 128898 Universe - in Reality or in Mythology - who could accept us justrepparttar 128899 way we are, and justrepparttar 128900 way we choose to be.

That is because we cannot believe inrepparttar 128901 ultimate purpose of life. We believe thatrepparttar 128902 purpose of life is to follow God's law, do as God wants, and, essentially, please God. Yet pleasing God is notrepparttar 128903 purpose of life. Only an egomaniacal deity would create beings whose essential purpose was to please Him. And only an insane egomaniac would then add such treachery and misery torepparttar 128904 mix as life contains in order to make it virtually guaranteed that his created beings would stumble and fall. And only an incredibly cruel insane egomaniac would go further, saying it doesn't matter whether they fall or not, because they have already fallen! Before birth!

Be Yourself and Zap Stress!

Written by Janet Male


Ask a hundred different people how to deal with stress and you'll probably getrepparttar same amount of different answers....

Which could result in more stress....

And therein liesrepparttar 128884 key.

Stress is often caused by too much information coming from too many places.

There is more information in one daily newspaper than a person would have received in their whole lifetime a few centuries ago. And that's without even takingrepparttar 128885 internet into consideration.

No wonder we sometimes get stressed!

Naturally, other people's opinions can be interesting. But you don't have to take them all on board. Trying to will just drive you crazy!

It's so important to take some quiet time each day to be on your own. The answers that are right for you are found inside of you, you just have to tune in. Something that is 'right' just seems to 'bubble up' from within. So if something is bothering you by all means chat it through with friends if it makes you feel better. Just don't think you have to take every opinion on board.

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