Spirituality is the center of our emotional wellness and does not give
us the ability to love, but rather it is love! Spirituality is
compassion, sympathy, forgiveness, understanding, love and peace, all
wrapped up in a beautiful package and we lovingly shared it with
others.
Spirituality is the epitome of loving, and allows us to emotionally
forgive those who have wronged us so that we can let go of, and
distance ourselves from negative influence's that have such a strong
hold on our well being as a whole.
Spirituality is a reward that comes from lessons that we've learned in
life through our misfortunes and downfalls. Spirituality gives us a
better appreciation for the simple things in life, the things that
truly matter and that bring us to a better understanding that God
really does care for us and tends to our basic needs for inner-
peace.
Spirituality is indeed the essence of our soul, and it can replace the
inner darkness, the emptiness, and feelings of worthlessness that is
the direct result of our outsiders influence that have fed us their own negative inner contamination.
Individuals who have come face to face with the ultimate tragedies in
life seem to be the very ones who will posses this seed of inner peace, the secret logic of the soul that gives birth to Spirituality. I suppose you might say that becoming Spiritual is God's way of
compensating for those of us who have faced a tremendous amount of
troubles and heartache in our lives.
In Fact our Spirituality is nourished as we face obstacles that touch
our lives. And when we find ourselves at the end of each hurdle that
seemed, at one time impossible to overcome, we might be overwhelmed
with awe and a tremendous peace within, as we look back at what God has done while we bask in the glory of the moment.
Now, not every person who faces difficulties in their lives (and let's
face it, we all do) recognizes the spiritual gift that God has for us
all, but that does not mean that those who have recognized their
spirituality are any better, or more loved by God. The environment that we choose to expose ourselves to determines the amount of nurturing that our spirituality receives!
Just as the food that we eat and the air that we breathe can make us
ill if it's contaminated, our Spirituality can become stale and cease
to mature if we do not feed it with a healthy dose of constant,
positive influences.
Once we have recognized and experienced Spirituality in the raw, we
must pamper and tend to it daily by inviting those things into our
lives that are good and that fill our souls with the beauty of the
sites and sounds around us. We can choose to embrace this wonderful
gift and feed our Spirituality or we can ignore the beauty within and
only allow the negative obstacles to enter our lives, but the choice is totally left up to us.
We can only give to others, that which we have to give! There are still therapists, psychiatrists and survivors who do not feel that there is any room for God in therapy, I suppose this may be due to the fact that we are dealing with issues of the mind. However the mind is the perfect place to ask for God's healing! Don't you think?
Take for instance when we have a loved one who is ill, we tend to lean
on others who can pray with us. We pray that we can be strong for our
loved one, and that we can mentally and emotionally deal with the
illness. And when a loved one dies, we search for comfort and strength
as we retreat into the grieving stages as the survivor who must go on
with life. Ah, indeed we're asking God to heal our mind!
And where do we turn in times like these, but to prayer! Now we're not
praying for the health of the deceased, nor are we praying for strength and guidance to support this loved one, for he/she has already past. But rather we are praying for our own peace of mind to continue functioning during the grieving process. We're asking for mental strength, comfort, and healing; the same mental healing that we desire in therapy.
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