Beliefs and such. Just pondering.

I'm not too sure what I believe in regarding religion.
I mean-I believe in God...or a how you say, "Higher Power".
I don't believe in Hell. Perhaps Earth is Hell? It would make sense, wouldn't it?
The Earth is such a scary place...
Maybe if you aren't ready to go to "Heaven" or some beautiful place, you must come back to Earth?
And maybe you have a choice. Maybe once you're gone, you don't want to move on yet. You don't want to go to Heaven. So instead you choose reincarnation?
Yes. I think that is what I will go with. I think that's what I choose to believe.

The topic of "what comes next" is a terrifying one for me. I get really panicky when I think of death in general and what is next for me. I hope I have a long ways to go before I need to start even thinking about it, but it's definitely an active thought in my brain.
I mean, there can't just be blackness, can there? Just darkness...nothing? That seems impossible. The very thought of human existance seems impossible, though. So who knows?
Terrifying thought.

For now, I just choose to believe in myself, I guess. :)

Eat, Pray, Love-Complete.

So after a month or so of trying to get through the book, "Eat, Pray, Love," I finally finished it. When I say "trying to get through," let me clarify that it was not because the book was boring or hard to read, I was just caught up in daily activities that caused a barrier with me and my reading.

Allow me to say that this book was: Refreshing, soul cleansing, and inspirational.

Anytime I felt sad, I would pick up this book. Any time my spirits needed uplifting, I would pick up this book.

Something about Liz's journey to Italy, India and Indonesia and the tales she told about her adventures allowed myself to feel hopeful about God and Love.

I'm really not much for Religion and some of my beliefs are all over the place (although that is a topic for another time), but this book was very spiritual and somehow I still found myself wanting to know about her relationship she built with God and her different beliefs. I found that many of her beliefs about religion matched up with my own. Hinduism for example was spoken about in this book briefly, and I found that I believed in a lot of that Faith.

It wasn't all about God though. It had a lot to do with how her travels helped her discover herself and what makes her happy.

So much about this book is a reminder about why being negative is a waste of time and how happiness always wins in the end, no matter what.

Footprints-

I'm not all that religious (although I do believe in God)-- but this struck me as surprisingly comforting.


One night i dreamed a dream.

I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to me, and one to my Lord.

When the last scene of my life shot before me i looked back at the footprints in the sand. There was only one set of footprints. I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest times of my life.

This always bothered me and i questioned the Lord about my dilemma.

"Lord, you told me when i decided to follow You, You would walk and talk with me all the way. But i'm aware that during the most troublesome times of my life there is only one set of footprints. I just don't understand why, when i needed You most, You leave me."

He whispered, "My precious child, i love you and will never leave you never, ever, during your trials and testings.

When you saw only one set of footprints it was then that i carried you."