When you feel pain...

When you work hard using your muscle to make someone happy
maybe you may have a big muscle pain afterwards
But that pain will just remind you of your joy of making that person happy
Thus, you will find yourself feeling good when you feel that muscle pain

Can we not do everything to make someone happy?
Then, any pain caused by that will not be just a pain anymore,
instead, it will be a source of joy of your having existed for someone's life,
or, maybe, making yourself part of someone's life

Trap after Realization

When you realize something new, you may be trapped into this:
"Oh, my goodness, people around me seem to have already known this thing, and they seem to be practicing this thing. What an idiot I am that I didn't know this until this late!"
so, lament, lament, lament..disappointed about yourself...hopelessness might follow...

But, you don't need to do so. You could do this instead:
"Oh, my goodness, finally God could allow me to realize this thing today, and I believe whatever I tried and invested myself into up to now might have helped a bit for God to allow this to finally happen to me. Thank God!"

I think you should agree and if you can't, then just think what if you have died without that realization. You at least have a reason to be grateful.

Yes, you do have the key to the door of Heaven as well as the one to the door of hell.

Thank God for my misery

It is good to look at yourself sometimes...
but, don't look at yourself with your own eyeglass, or, with your own eyes
Try to look at you through God's eyes, or, eyes of the parent

God (parent) loves you unconditionally
God (parent) absolutely trusts you (or, trusts that your conscience will prevail)
God (parent) wants to be proud of you
or, he wants to declare to the world, "Look! this is my son/daughter!"
God (parent) is committed to do anything to support your victory
or, he is always there for you (24/7, even if you cannot see him, or feel him)
God (parent) would want to listen to you
or, he knows your challenge/loneliness and is there to give you strength
God (parent) is your "best friend" if you are willing to accept it
etc. etc. etc.

So, it is very unwise to keep rejecting him
and dwelling in your misery

Therefore, thank God for your misery
because you might not seek for God (parent) without it

Thank God for unthankfulness

When you find yourself uninspired
or, feeling uneasy, uncomfortable
or, frustrated, angry, complaining
or, fear, anxiety, worried,
or, no sense of confidence,
or, no sense of thankfulness, etc.
It is the same message from your conscience (or, message from God through your conscience)
telling/asking you,

"Did you report to God before you started to do what you are doing now?"
"Have you been communicating with God as you do what you do?"

Then you will realize how much you have excluded God in your daily life.

Realizing something --> good chance to change something --> keep growing

Thank God for this!

Thank God for our father!

What could father do without mother?
What could father learn without children?

That's true, but...
What could mother do without father?

What could children do without father?

Thus, conclusion: Thank God for our father!

Many thanks and Happy Father's Day

to our truth-loving dad!

For whose sake do you believe in God?

It is good to believe in God, or some higher being, in general

But once in a while we should ask ourselves this question:

For whose sake do I believe in God?
Is it for the sake of my own inner peace?
Or, is it for the sake of God's purpose (or, God's joy)?

A subtle thing... but, we will see it through its fruit