Why I Pray In The Shower

I wrote a lot about fear in my book,  but I thought I’d share something I read a long time ago in the literature of Alcoholics Anonymous that I wish I would have included in my book. It basically suggested that we were afraid we wouldn’t get something we wanted or that we would lose something we already had. I like this because it is a simple reason why some of us can feel fearful in our lives from time to time, especially considering how things seem to be today.  However, there is something else I read a long time ago about fear that I did include in my book, and it has helped me many times in overcoming my fears. “The only thing that I have found that helps me with my fear is faith.” I then added “Faith there is something rather than nothing that created the universe and life for a reason. I call it God. And I pray to it in the shower.” I am beginning to believe more and more that however you choose to define it, faith can help us be less fearful today, and in my experience also be happier in our lives.

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I wrote in my book that we can be happier in life by trying to be a better person than we were before, but how doing so isn’t always that easy. Sometimes I don’t feel like being a loving and kind person or want to be understanding and tolerant of someone who isn’t being any of those things themselves.  I do try though, and even if I am the slightest bit unkind to someone, I will apologize and tell that person it’s not who I am, or who I want to be. I then move on and try harder next time to be the person I say I am.  This is simply a part of growing spiritually, and it helps me to be happier with myself, and my life. There are other ways we can be better than we were before that doesn’t involve spiritual growth which can also help us be happier. I have learned that if I’m open minded, and try to understand other peoples views on things, it can go along way in being better able to practice love and kindness toward them, and become better educated on things I don’t understand. Many times after I listen to what someone else thinks about something that interests me, even though I may disagree with what they are telling me, I still investigate what they told me, and I learn something I didn’t know before. It doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll change my views on the subject, but it does help me find some common ground to stand on with that person, and accept them for who they are and what they believe in. This helps me to grow spiritually, and as a person by doing so. This self education along with my continued quest to be a spiritual person is one of the main reasons for my happiness in life and with who I am, even when I sometimes still behave like someone I’m not.

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I’ve been hearing how some people attached to a specific political group are worried about us losing our freedom in this country and that our current President is the next coming of Hitler. I for one believe that happy people don’t worry about things like this. They have already obtained a freedom of sorts, wherein they don’t let fears and insecurities take away their happiness. I’m not attached to any political group and although I occasionally experience some fears and insecurities, I can honestly say I really don’t worry about a whole lot of things anymore. I have learned I can be all right no matter what my current circumstances are and even when things look bad, not to fear the worst.  My experience has simply been that everything will be all right if I believe it will. Three years from now, even if we elect a different President with a different political affiliation, I doubt things will be much different. Something changed in this country a long time ago and continued to change through many different presidencies until it manifested into what we are seeing today, a greater division among our people than ever before. I wonder what the Forefathers would think about this division as they certainly had to envision this country being a different one than it has turned out to be.  What really makes me curious though, is why it seems so many people with money in the bank and a well paying job are usually the ones worried about losing their freedom. If anyone should be worried about not having the freedom to do what they want in life, it should be the millions of Americans who have no savings and struggle just to make ends meet. I feel that people should be grateful for the money they have and for a job that pays their bills, and not worry about something that just can’t happen in America. I’ll tell you what is happening though, large corporations are making huge profits and so are the millionaires and billionaires who run them. My guess is they’re talking about how funny it is that some people think our President is the next coming of Hitler. What they’re not talking about however, is that they’re afraid of losing their freedom. Then again neither are most of the middle and lower class people in our country.  They’re too busy trying to keep what they already have by working at a job or jobs, that in some cases require them to do more while making less. I must say though that a lot of people I talk to are trying to remain as happy as they can under their current circumstances and not let their fears and insecurities get the best of them. I just hope they can maintain this freedom until we have a president who isn’t influenced by anything other than a passion to make this country what it once was. United. Maybe Obama is that president, I don’t know. What I do know is that thanks to the last president of this country, the new one sure has an uphill battle.

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