LifePoints

1.  Live with impeccable ethics and morals. This is a process. Try to stay pure. Look to Christ for power, and receive His Grace in all areas where you fall short.
2.  Keep your mind clear of worries and excessive cares. Beyond a healthy conscience and a willingness to bear contrition, do not entertain guilt. Eradicate it in Grace.
3.  Accept that you are a being in process, and that God has promised to bring you to completion.
4.  Take care of your body. It is the Holy Temple of your soul. It is miraculous in design and function. Be thankful for it. Don't worry about your health, or about anything for that matter [see#2]. Stretch and move a lot.
5.  Let everything you do be motivated only by Love--the Love of Christ.
6.  Never miss an opportunity to absorb and experience beauty--every flower, child, the sky, water and light, green foliage dancing in the wind, birds celebrating the dawn. Celebrate your life, and all the magnificent life on this amazing planet! Live poetically and artistically. Be a Life Artist!
7.  Guard your heart. Discern the spiritual energies that flow within you and between you and others. Block, screen out, or peacefully ignore the evil [dark, foreboding, guilt-inducing, judgmental, fearful, critical, enslaving, etc.] energies.  Embrace, enhance and share the good [kindness, compassion, joy, peace, etc.].
8.  Continue to study and meditate on the teachings of Jesus, relying on His Holy Spirit to enable you to understand and embody the Truth that sets and keeps you free. Learn to feel free.
9.  Work peacefully and joyfully to alleviate suffering, accepting that you will not be able to alleviate all of it; but you will be able, in Christ, to overcome it and and benefit from it. It will make you wiser and stronger, which is why God allows it. Do not put yourself under the unbearable yoke of feeling responsible to alleviate the suffering in others that is within their domain of control. I am responsible for my suffering and happiness; you are responsible for yours.
10.  Accept your death, and the death of all your loved ones. It will help you love them better. Jesus has commanded us not to fear, nor to let our hearts be troubled regarding death [John 14]. We are learning how to live in the comfort of His assurances.
11.  Remember that you are in, but not of the world. Your soul is eternal and distinct from all the worries and cares of this world. That includes political  worries! Do as much good as you can, but keep you heart free from worry.
12.  Stay connected to people who really care and are also pursuing Truth, Freedom and Peace and for the entire human family. Support the Church and trusted organizations that are doing some enduring good.  Be generous with your resources, and especially with your heart of Love.
13.  Forgive. Make sure you are holding nothing against anyone. It will weigh you down over time and diminish your most valuable possession--your Life.

Confession and Prayer

Lord,

I'm weak and stupid.

I know it.

Apathetic and lazy.

I'm a victim of this opulent culture. It's opulence has permeated my soul like the pollution in the air and water. Like cancer cells, it grows in me. I am not separate from it. I am not holy.

But I have this mustard seed of faith.

I know that You are the Messiah—God in the flesh. I know that Your Spirit also resides in me.

Please help me to draw up into You in me; like a snail drawing into its shell.

I want to be safe from this world, even while still in it. I want to be like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego—safe and without even the smell of smoke on them in the fiery furnace.

Cleanse me inwardly from all unrighteousness, according to Your glorious promise.

Make me to be a man after Your heart.

Let me feel Your redemptive Love cleansing me, cleansing me, cleansing me.

Please forgive me!

I want to love with Your Love. I know that that Love, that Spirit is the answer to all human problems.

Yet I still sit, and do nothing. Or get lost in the distractions of this opulence. Or I rest on the laurels of my meager past works for Your Kingdom's glory; taking the glory unto my prideful, lazy self.

Or I allow the evil one to convince me that, because of all this, I am no good for the Kingdom, too unworthy to help, so I meekly keep my mouth shut when You would have me speak.

I ask You now, in this moment, please deliver me from this quagmire of selfish lostness.

Bring me into the Light of Your Glorious Truth and Love that drives away all darkness, liberates, strengthens and cleanses.

Purge me in the Consuming Fire that burns away all that is not free, peaceful, joyful, loving and fit for heaven. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit so that today I may be a new creature; all this old baggage having been burned to ashes and blown away by Holy Spirit fire and wind.

Thank You eternally for assuring me in Your Holy Word that You do these things, perform these glorious miracles of Love, cleanse us, make us whole and righteous, use us for the glory of Your Kingdom. Please Lord, deliver us from evil and keep us in Your perfect Way.

Today, by Your Grace, I will walk in the Love and Freedom of Christ my Lord!