Advice to a friend

So I've been wanting to write this to a friend of mine for a while now. I'm not going to say who it is but if this applies to you I hope you take this as encouragement and not critisism:

You've been taking a lot of advice lately and I understand your desire to grow and become better than you are. We all should want that. However, I'm concerned by the choices you've made in who you will listen to. The advice you've been given seems to be along the lines of the "if it feels good, do it" mantra. Not all things that make you happy are good for you. And a lot of things that make you grimace or frustrated (or down right angry?) will help you if you allow them to do what they are meant to do. Our emotions will fool us and I'd be lying if I said I'd never been fooled but we need to base our needs on something higher than our wants. If we don't a trap awaits us that isn't easily escaped.

Life doesn't get easier by taking the easy road. There are way too many stories out there that show that more often than not the opposite happens when we try the easy route. Taking one day at a time, admitting our faults and changing what we can change to improve our lives and the lives of those around us are great words to live by. But it all takes time, patience, love for others and ourselves, self control and the acknowledgement that we can't do it on our own.

I finalize this by saying that I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God and there is no other way to the Father but through him. His ways are not "get rich schemes" or "feel good" vibes. Following him takes a lifetime and a lot of bruising but at the end of each day, no matter how I feel, I can say that when I am weak he is strong, when I need him he is always there, and when I screw up he's there to pick me back up and put me on the path again.

I hope that helps. I hope I've made a difference. Peace.


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