It’s Okay to Feel Good…

Okay let’s get a little personal tonight. Do you remember the last time you felt really good? Not just happy in a moment, but having an overall a sense of contentment and confidence in things working out for you? A time when your mind was completely at ease and hovered there for awhile? Inside you honestly felt good. Do you have to travel back in time to answer that question? Or is that even a time you can still recall? I think it’s time folks got their happy back again. If you can get your happy back, then you can be free again to pursue this life instead of being pursued by it. You can discover that real genuine happiness inside, marked by great peace in your heart, is knowing everything is going to be okay. It’s almost like we are all stuck in something that cleaves to us like pine tar preventing, always preventing us from living the full beauty this life offers. We hold back our enthusiasm and our hearts, just in case. We hedge. We dodge the question. We walk around with one eye reverted trying to relive the past and foresee the future. We want to feel good, but have become convinced that it’s not safe. What if it goes south on me? So we delay our gratification and we delay our blessedness and we delay our experiences until it’s the right time. And, it’s never the right time. Our ability to feel good has been postponed indefinitely. Oh it is still there if we choose it, but we can’t access it. We just cannot afford to take that chance. We cannot fathom that all this time we have spent half living, we did so because of fear; fear we believed, fear we accepted and fear we let rule us. If you can get on the other side of fear you’ll realize (again), it’s okay to feel good.

The more I live, the more I see fear as the culprit. People say they have no fear while being driven by fear all day long. It’s so much fear it’s thought of as normal. I mean, isn’t everyone anxious? Fear, if you still insist that you aren’t afraid, is negative expectation. What are you presently expecting to happen in your life? Is it good or is it bad? Or, said another way, what have you spent an inordinate amount of time hoping doesn’t happen? Those things are all products of fear, disguised as concern or responsibility. It is your insistence on responsibility that has all but wiped the smile off your face. You know you can decide to feel good, but in order to do so you would have to let go of your fear. There, my friends is the crux of the matter. You have to make a decision. Someone’s lying and I’m guessing it’s not God. All of that negative expectation does nothing but put your life on hold, looking for some fateful day when it all gets so clear. It will never be clear! Not as long as obscurity lives selling lies and deceiving men. While you wait, your precious life is passing you by. You’re missing it. Well, don’t you want to get it back? You get it back when you get serious about getting rid of fear. It’s okay to feel good.

In order to feel good consistently you have to have some trust. If your trust is in yourself, you are in a heap of trouble. Surely you have lived long enough to know that’s a bad idea. I mean really, how much do you even know? Your trust cannot be in men. Men and man’s wisdom has a limit. It’s finite. And, it’s clueless concerning spiritual realities, the real causes of things. So to be blunt, you have to put your trust in God. Honestly, what can you can do about anything that happens in your life? A good attitude, sure, but to change anything? You can’t do it. But, God can. When you trust Him, you are finally moving in the right direction. God is sovereign. There’s nothing He misses. Once you finally trust Him you can relax. You can unleash that god awful burden of trying to figure something out about something you know about.0001 percent about. Honestly. When you decide to let Him do what He promises to do, your joy for life returns. You realize you have been trying to do His job for a long, long time. Let it all go. Once you let it ALL go the light turns back on. Well, the light was always on but darkened in the aforementioned obscurity. With the lights on you can perceive another choice. A choice that involves you deciding to be happy again. You can stop postponing it just in case. You can live it today and tomorrow and the next day. You can uncover that wonderful version of yourself again that loves and feels and trusts and lives! I know you remember him? Her? Outside of that arrangement, it’s not going to happen for you. You are not going to get to the place you seek because it does not exist where you keep looking. It resides in the realm your senses cannot discern. But, you can find it, if you look for it with your heart. And, trust me on this one, you don’t have to look very hard. He is literally all around you in all that your eye can see. Hear me. It’s okay to feel good.

Thank you for taking this mental journey with me. It’s not easy to admit having fear in your life and heart. But, you don’t have to admit anything to me or to anyone else for that matter. But, you do have to be honest with yourself. If you are a human, I can guarantee you are being obscured in some capacity from the life you can choose to live. There’s a hidden damper, a disguised governor slowing your life down. The acid test isn’t found in comparing toys and their value. Nor is it found in your level of luxury or what you can afford. It’s found in the happiness and contentment you experience each day. It’s found by how you feel. It’s found in trusting Him over yourself. But, when you find it you will know you have got it. Your insides will know and thank you. It’s then you will discover, it’s okay to feel good.

Just some good thoughts…