Jonathots Daily Blog
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Each of us considers “normal” to be whatever we view as acceptable behavior, and has become our fallback position. So if you grew up around worriers, it seems natural to worry. If you were surrounded by gruff, unemotional human beings, you will think it is bizarre to be gregarious. If your background is in Judeo-Christian values, then you will be caught in the paradox between “do I love my neighbor as myself?” or is it “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth?”
Even though we all believe we’re on a quest to find a remedy for our everyday problems and even our nagging addictions, we might want to stop and realize that the resources we tap will certainly determine the quality of the treatment.
Yesterday as I met the delightful and hungry souls at Cypress Trails United Methodist Church, I realized that each of them was joining into a body of believers while secretly pursuing a private belief system of their own, which had been infused into them from the time they were tiny children, and is now “normal,” even if unfulfilling.
For we are much more likely to accept an unfulfilling life than we are to question our “normal.”
To challenge our upbringing means we put ourselves on the outside, looking in–and that sense of abandonment can be terrifying.
But every remedy I have found in my life has demanded that I question my resources, values and even faith to set in motion a new miracle for myself.
After all, in my case, it is difficult to get over obesity because I was taught that food is love. It’s like trying to remove affection from existence. It seems unnatural. It seems ungodly.
Take a moment every day and ask a simple question: am I doing this because I have chosen to do so and it has proven to make me a better human being, or am I repeating behavior that I learned, which has trapped me in the person I am instead of the person I desire to become?
In the realm of spirituality, ten commandments that we dangle over the collective head of humanity does not always jive with “judge not, lest ye be judged.”
You have to make a choice.
And when you’re choosing, just make sure that what you follow breeds life … instead of stifling it.
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