Good morning!

God sterile rodeo.

morning to you. Relax your shoulders down and back and inhale deeply. And exhale, love,

exhale while becoming aware of God where you are. It doesn't matter if you're going

through a hard time right now or an easy time. God is there. See us Lewis said hardships

often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. So if things are heavy right now,

if anxiety or sadness comes to visit on the daily, it feels like you cry at the drop of

a hat. Know that those tears are cleansing you of you. They're washing away the old

you. An anxiety that sadness, any uncomfortable emotion, if you fill it, if you lean into

it, when it comes, if you do like roomy said and don't run away, but run inward and face

it, you find God, you fill God right there or the anxiety appears to be and it'll blow

your mind, like it'll stop your mind. When you see that even when the strongest emotional

disturbance is playing inside, love never stopped playing. God never left. It never leaves

you. An Oshul would say that these hardships come so that you can recognize God because

of the contrast. He said, people come to me and ask why God created the suffering world.

Why is there so much suffering if God is compassion? He said, yes, God is compassion.

Therefore there is so much suffering. Unless you pass through suffering, you will not reach

the ultimate ecstasy. It's a basic training. Unhappiness is a basic training for the ultimate

flowering of happiness. Every suffering is a Buddha seed. How can you reach ecstasy if

you have not known agony? If you reach the world of ecstasy without knowing what agony is,

you will not be able to recognize it. The recognition is impossible. Only through darkness

can light be recognized. You may be living in light, but if you don't know darkness,

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