Spiritual Awakening: Cashing In Or Cashing Out!!!
As part of the spiritual awakening process I have come to realize that it is important to taken some action and at the same time take some risks. In a casino you have two choices to cash in or cash out. Cashing in is when you exchange your money for chips or pulls on a slot machine. Cashing out is when you turn in your chips or money won in exchange for money. Each day in our life we have a choice to cash in or cash out by using our spiritual bank account. We can put our spiritual cash in and allow it to build or we can withdraw from our spiritual account and use it to enhance our personal and professional lives while also helping others. It is how we use our spiritual equity that will determine our spiritual growth as we work toward making the mind, body, spirit, connection.
Whether you are cashing in or cashing out it is important to understand that you have 525,600 minutes in the year. These minutes are deposited into your spiritual bank account each year and how you choose to use them is up to you. Each minute is an opportunity to positively impact your life and the lives of others. In a minute you can smile, share, a kind word, send a kind note of encouragement, or simply be. In a minute life can change as someone is called home to GOD and God delivers a life. In a minute you can do something positive that changes the world for good. Sometimes it is as simple of sitting in a Starbucks writing a blog entry with an article written about your charitable endeavors with a sign that reads please donate GOD Bless and each minute looking up to acknowledge people. In that minute you just may just change someone’s outlook on the day.
I have always been drawn to water. Yes that is me 3rd from the left in the front row, when I swam competitively in high school. In my 3 years on the team I had to find ways to recreate myself in order to compete. I wanted to do short course and I had a great quick arm turnover, however GOD wanted me to be a distance swimmer and I changed to do the 500 yard free style and the 1650 yard freestyle. As I change and adapted I got better and better. During training when I was in the water there was a sense of peace that came over me as I started to understand the importance of making the mind, body, soul connection. As a competitive swimmer one had to be disciplined in everything they did from nutrition to practice schedules and of course the academics. On top of it all I had a part time job. I managed as I began to understand that you can do everything you desire if you plan your work and work your plan. I did not know this at the time but this was the start of creating that oneness consciousness with GOD and the beginning of understanding that GOD will provide. I stopped swimming competitively after my sophomore year of college as I realized that GOD had some other plans for me and thus began another re-creation period. 