Getting the Wheels Aligned

In practice, we are at our best when our body’s desire and intuition is joined with the emotional impulse of our heart and guided by our mind’s knowledge and insight to live daily in a way that makes sense with our beliefs. We live what we believe and our three centers of intelligence - thoughts, emotions and actions - all work in union with our core values. Our core values spring from what we decide to believe. Translation? We wake up in the morning and greet ourselves in the mirror without shame; we brush our teeth at night, stare into the mirror and know that we did a decent job at being human today. And on those days when we totally blow it - we know what to do to make it right. We know that God finds a way for banished people to come back home.

On decent days, we go about our day reflecting the image of God by loving what God loves, thinking as God thinks and doing as God would do if he were in our place. This does not have to be some big grand epic thing. Most of the time it will not be big or grand. But we can appreciate God, ourselves and others. We can live a reasonably peaceful and productive life in a way that makes the world a bit better because we are alive, fully present, and capable of doing the next right thing as best as we can understand it.

What happens when it all goes to hell in a handbasket? Again, we are going to wrestle with what we believe. BUT. The bad days often reveal what we doubt, what false beliefs we have buried deep inside, and where we need to ask for help. Bad days feel bad but can be great gifts and reality checks too.