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My Belief Foundation 9/4/2011 5:25:37 AM
This was written for the summer writer's group that I attend each year. The topic given for the next critique was "Fundamental". The fundamental basis of my belief system is that anything that happens to me cannot harm the essence of my being but only make me stronger.
Things happen in life over which we have no control. Sometimes they are things that seem good to us and sometimes they are things that seem bad.
We do a lot of planning of our activities. In this day and age, with our lives being so busy, we have to plan and keep track of our various activities otherwise we would be sure to miss some important meeting with a business associate or a friend.
We cannot control everything' sometimes outside forces come upon us and control our lives--usually these are unexpected--perhaps forces of nature, forces of sickness, or forces of evil may come suddenly and throw us off our well-planned path. What happens then to our carefully laid plans?
Having a fundamental belief that says nothing that comes upon me unexpectedly can harm me but only make me stronger will save me from despair, help me pick myself up, and start again. This may not happen immediately but it will happen. I know this because I have been through such things before and know that all things will work out for me in the end.
Through disasters or failures we learn what is really important to us. What is left to us when we are stripped down to our foundation, when all we have built on that foundation has been torn away, then that is our fundamental ground, the truth of our being, and our core principle.
The older I get, the more often my building is torn down and I discover my foundation--the ground of my being once again. I hear the lowest note of my life's chord and feel the vibration of the essence of my being, my soul, as it is meant to be.
