I want to send a big thank you out to one of the real good guys (yes there are some) in the junior resource industry, Mr. Al Korelin. Al has been very gracious in using some of the time he has been blessed with on his national radio show to discuss matters of the heart and soul, versus gold and silver. Here is our discussion on helping others.
I can attest to the fact that some will think this is not the place for it. Praise God that the Holy Spirit has touched his heart. Please visit his website.
I thought I’d post this prayer from Thomas Merton a trapist monk. It’s so inspiring and soothing. God is in control if we just trust. Trust the words. They have real meaning. Thanks Peter for all you do but more, much more importantly for who you are:
MY Lord God, I have no idea where I’m going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe the desire to please you DOES IN FACT PLEASE YOU (emphasis added). And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope I will not do anything apart from that desire. And I know if I do this, (stray from your will) you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Mark – In my darkest days, I carried that prayer around with me and trey to say it each day.
It says it all doesn’t it. You don’t even have to be pointed in the right direction. You just need the DESIRE to be pointed in the right direction. And He does incredible things even though you may not be able to see what’s over that hill or how you’re going to get there. You’re talking to someone who has always needed to know ‘what’s next’. I could never appreciate where I am because I would concentrate my thoughts on where I needed to go. I think it was a trust issue. I coudn’t enjoy the moment. And eventually, I’d grow anxious and miss out on what’s under my nose. I’d get so emotional I wouldn’t see it. Now I spend more time (still need lots of work here) just trusting and listening to my heart where God lives. It has helped me to make better decisons in my life.
Getting to know myself and how I think and why I think the way I do has been the single most important decision I have made. I honestly believe it’s the most important endevour anyone can undertake. Why? I think it’s important to form a good relationship with yourself. How can one have a good relationship with anyone if they don’t have one with themselves? The road of learning about yourself may just lead you to Christ as it did for me.
Give the prayer a try.
Amen mark!
OK. This is my last post on this subject but one that I think is important. And that is, the connection between God and this life. Forget the after life. No one can know. Christ said ‘I came to give life and life to the fullest’. THIS LIFE. Why on earth would he want to create us and then leave us to suffer. He wouldn’t do that. It’s not in his nature. Only we’re capable of doing that to ourselves.. We have the capacity to get so wrapped up in ourselves and our emotions that we forget what our experiences are trying to teach us. WAKE UP! (I’m talking to me now) Don’t weep for your sins! We’ll only commit the same sin again and again if that’s all we think about. WAKE UP and UNDERSTAND. Why do I do that? Why do I think this way? Why do I buy high and sell low?? See. We get so attached to an outcome we’re not open to something new. Ask yourself as I have: Why didn’t I cash out in October 2007? We were warned wern’t we? Why wasn’t I open to at least an interim bottom in March? Makes me abit worried for myself if Christ tapped me on the shoulder today, would I recognize him or would I be so caught up in my own life I’d miss out from seeing what’s so obvious?
In Merton’s prayer he essentially says you are going to make mistakes. And that’s OK. Admit it. And then try to understand. The old ways just a’int working no more. So, try something new. When we say ‘I have no idea what I’m doing but I just want to do what you want me to do,’ we begin the process of thinking differently and detaching from this world which ironically is the beginning of a beautiful life. Paraphrasing, ‘concentrate on me and I will give you all these things and more’. Who am I to argue with this?
I’m done now.