GRATITUDE OF THE DAY
Good morning, good morning. What a beautiful, awesome and amazing day, Lord. Thank you for this day.
How are you doing today? My name is Dr. Rob Kiltz. I’m starting the day up early. Grateful is the attitude of life! This is my way of sharing thoughts and ideas through the challenges and troubles I have: relationships, work, family, friends, and life. They are not meant to be bad; they’re meant to be good and push us through the pain of life and help us see the perfect nature of His perfection (or Her perfection, or Its perfection or All perfection) that somehow the Universe and God are conspiring in your favor each and every day.
Somehow, we must learn to hate in order to learn how to Love. In order to have love, there must be hate. It’s life! Unhappiness, frustration, anger, worry, fear, regret, judgment. I know. These are all things we hear, we learn, and we go “what the heck?!” Right? I know. Every day start the day with a breath and smile and “Thank you, God, for this day, for this life, for this amazing, amazing way of the universe.”
You know, life is more spectacular than you know. It’s a blessing. That’s it. All of the troubles that come with it are the treasures of life.
I was reading a little bit of Richard Rohr, a Franciscan monk and priest of the religious sort to find that of the sect of the Christian church. To listen, to learn, and to read about Jesus Christ–just another man who shared words, ideas, and thoughts on how to live a better life, but you can find pretty much anyone who has a similar philosophy and belief—Buddha, Lao Tzu, Mohammed, Moses . . . we’ll just go down the list. He is just the most recent of the sages we know, but go back for thousands and thousands and thousands of years to those that we don’t even know who they were or there is nothing even written or in tablets of stone.
Life is the gift, and you and I are born. The circumstances of our birth are not always understandable, and they’re not always easy. It’s hard at times to understand why we’re where we are. We’re all on this journey to death, and it seems like we write mostly about love and death. That’s what brings out the poetry, the dance, the song, the mystery, and the mastery. God Loves life in every way and every day. God is the master of the universe.
Breath and smile, and you are God, my friend. He and She is God, and we’ll say anything in between. There is nothing good nor bad, but what we think it is. And why don’t we think, “Wow, thank you God for this day?” The breath and smile of life, for life is a breath, and you are the smile. You have those in your mind, and you are the master to create them.
To start the day with God’s love, God’s faith, God’s harmony, God’s happiness, God’s everything. And when we’re not in line with something or someone, it’s okay to move away and share the day in other ways for God is grateful for you.
Whether you’re a poet, a writer, a musician, a singer, or a dancer, life is through artistry. And you may be a computer technician, a builder, or one who takes things down and recycles them, it doesn’t matter. These are all of the beautiful possibilities of life. God loves you. God is the beautiful master of the universe, this day and every day.
You decide if it’s a good day or bad day, easy day or hard day. Get up and go to work. Go do something. Go clean. Go throw away.
Yesterday, I spent the day cleaning the bathroom just completely head to toe, as they say. Doing the laundry, making the bed. I went through a closet that needed to be completely gutted. GONE! There are a lot of bags full of stuff that need to be recycled or put into the earth for other ways of decomposition. We humans have been constructing and creating for infinite years. Taking nature’s stuff and converting into longer-term stuff: the plastics and the material things that just don’t decompose as they should (or as we thought they should). But they all will eventually. It just takes longer than we thought.
Today is a beautiful day, my friend, and we are up early. A breath and smile of life . . . God’s goodness is within all there is. Spend the day on wow, amazing! Be inspired by the day, by your problems. Imagine this is the universe gifting you a problem to push you. That’s the pain of life. It moves you to seek the light, the solutions, the ways, the changes. I know, it doesn’t make sense, but the universe created you and I in perfection. We are the perfect nature of the universe.
Listen to a really great book today, but you don’t know it’s great until you listen to it! You’ve got to be the one who determines that. It might be bad too, but you don’t know that until you’ve finished the whole thing, then you have judgment. And the judgment might be “huh, not exactly what I thought it should be” or “Wow! That was amazing! I was so inspired!”
Oh man, life is amazing for all of us. You know that; I know that; we know that. The universe is always moving. Remember, we’re all just workers. We are all the workers of the universe creating, growing, sharing, making. A breath and smile.
Check out my website Mind, Body, Smile, which I created to help me in the day, through my troubles, challenges and my losses, my sister’s death, my parents’ death, separation of a relationship (a divorce). We all go through something because this is the nature or God’s universe. We are the writers of the story. We are the creators of the good, the bad, the right, the wrong, the easy, the hard. The universe is always conspiring in your favor, my friend. God’s love is with you.
Through a breath and smile, life unfolds. It is simple, easy, and amazing. How to be creative? Well, get some canvas, some acrylic paint, and begin to spread the material on that canvas. Do not hold judgment to what it will be. Just imagine it will be as perfect as ever. Who’s the writer and creator? You are, and God loves you immensely every day in every way. How do you and I let go of the fear, the worry, the regret, and the judgment?
Whether you’re in retail, construction, demolition, science, medicine, food distribution, agriculture, or any of the infinite ways of being or doing something in life, the “I want to be something someday” is a great start to the dream. But how about “I already AM something this day. I am that which I wish to be, I’m simply working in that direction.” Find joy and love at the place you are at right now. Do not let go of God’s universe. God loves you, and you find that right within thy heart.
The mind is the master, and remember God loves you even when you think “Oh my God, what the heck has happened to me today?” Whether you’re ill, injured, fearful, worried, regretful, TODAY grow the day with love. Grow the day with God’s amazing gift called life. Go start a company. Risk failure. Keep moving forward. Help a friend, family member or someone you don’t know. But remember, we’re all best served (all of us) when given the material to go out and create for ourselves or the encouragement for that, or simply just love.
God bless you. I want you to enjoy this awesome and amazing day and pick up or listen to something you really can be inspired by, but remember, you don’t know what that is until you start it!
This is Dr. Rob Kiltz. Mind Body Smile. CNY Healing Arts. CNY Fertility. God Bless to you
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