Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Delusional thoughts are often perceived to be triggered by the daily pressures that life inflicts on very many people, persuading them that Prozac or a similar medication will soothe their anxieties sufficiently to return them to reality; the reality that they wish to escape.
There is a dilemma when our spiritual inner life invites each of us to believe in that which our senses fail to identify, or even acknowledge as real. Many will deliberate with themselves whether they are simply delusional when their interior resourced intuitive self offers advice inviting them/us to sacrifice their/our predicable response to one that says, trust me by the results of your faith in my guidance.
Experience is the most brutal of teachers when encouraging us to learn its lessons by forceful persuasion. The school of hard knocks lacks finesse, or subtlety when making certain that our life's lessons influence us to change the way we are living. Valium merely addresses the symptoms, failing to reach the heart of the matter, whereas the interior life speaks to us with a deep concern for our well being inviting us to accept His invitation to let Him show us how best to heal our self inflicted wounds, then to follow His life creating route through our life time.
A wise sage wrote that to defeat the darkness out there we must first defeat the darkness within. This process begins when we accept that we need assistance from the divine presence reminding us that rebirth into a meaningful, and productive life starts with a change of heart reversing our focus on self service, towards a life that always responds to the needs of others with an understanding born out of our own earlier troubles that taught us but for the Grace of God, there go I.
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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