Making the Best Use of Cards We are Dealt
By Shiva
@Shiva49 (26659)
Singapore
January 4, 2021 8:58am CST
The world we are in never fails to amaze me. The intricacies of its working unravel but we are never closer to understanding its inner workings; then that of the universe, or maybe multiverse, we are part of.
We can try to connect the dots but we fall very short. Then the mystery of life and death keeps us on the edge. Our numbers are called without fail. There is no need for us to attract attention that we are overdue.
As a species, we are at the top lording over the rest but we are cut down to size like now that we are the most vulnerable. We need more safety nets to survive than others.
We are given resources aplenty and wisdom lies in making the best use of them. We can self-annihilate even and we seem to tempt fate all the time. If an unseen virus can haunt us relentlessly, imagine the fallout of nuclear and chemical warfare. It shows the depths we have sunk into to boast some countries have stockpile to destroy the world and set us back to Stone Age.
We come with certain talents and at times we have those who catapult us to a higher realm with their wisdom. Their inputs cut both ways as what is intended is obviously a better quality of life but those with evil intentions seem to carry the day and hold the majority to ransom.
We know what we have to do but then our endless infighting has led us to spurning the cards we are dealt. That could be a sad epitaph for mankind.
There is a limit to the extent we can go as our creator can well call time on us. 2020 has given us enough warnings. We should stop playing with fire like we are warned when young.
The cards we are dealt are a divine gift including an awareness to raise ourselves into divine beings. Our time could well be running out. Each ensuing generation has a more compelling reason to stop violating the divine order that we are part of.
Are we fair to our Creator and for the blessings?
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@Sabasw (14)
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4 Jan 21
It does take a conscious effort to remember that when something doesn't work out the way we planned it, it's because there is a better plan made for us, by the best of planners, our creator.
2020 certainly has been tough, probably the toughest year of my life, and the only way I felt uplifted was not because I changed my situation, but because I changed the way I perceived my situation and reacted to it.
Once I found my faith, it seemed brighter and a redirection instead of failure and despair.
So yes, I totally believe that the cards we are dealt with are the best ones to redirect us, to teach us, to re-align us. We just need to see them that way, and then it becomes clear why things happened the way that they did.
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@Shiva49 (26659)
• Singapore
4 Jan 21
Well said.
A change in our attitude leads to a shift in our consciousness.
A life of gratefulness acknowledging the blessings showered on us can keep us rooted to the basics.
Yes, we are given the cards for us to thrive and find meaning in our lives but we have strayed as a species with hypocrisy, selfishness, and ego deciding our path rather than sticking to truth, service to humanity, and selflessness. Even during this moment of crisis, we hardly are able to eschew pettiness and one-upmanship.
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@Sabasw (14)
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4 Jan 21
@Shiva49 wonderfully said.
And this shift in consciousness does lead to a change in our situation.
Too often though we get stuck in the chicken or egg paradigm. Is it our situation that should change for our attitude to change, or is it our attitude that should start first?
Once we know that the internal change has to happen first, the path becomes clear and the external situation catches up soon after.
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@Shiva49 (26659)
• Singapore
4 Jan 21
@Sabasw According to me, we know what to do.
It is said, we get the leaders we deserve.
Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
The good are left on the sidelines and there are no dearth of advisers but the leaders only serve themselves and their henchmen.
Personally, I feel the young have to step in who have no past baggage. The children are innocent and soon an adult world corrupts them. Just shedding hypocrisy will help a lot, doing what we preach.
Gandhi exhorted "Be The Change You Want to See in the World". Hopefully, we would soon follow our heart to cleanse a corrupted mind.
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@Shiva49 (26659)
• Singapore
4 Jan 21
Our leaders are playing brinkmanship at the cost of those who elected them.
They have led us down a path pitting one against another.
When we have progressed so much scientifically, in terms of coexistence our leaders manage to drive a wedge for their selfish pursuits.
The best of our cards are left in our hearts hardly seeing the light of the day!
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@RebeccasFarm (89832)
• Arvada, Colorado
12 Jan 21
Yes each day I am grateful even though the cards I have suck.
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@Shiva49 (26659)
• Singapore
5 Jan 21
Yes, I feel we should try to read the inner/hidden message as this virus has changed our lifestyle. Vaccination could be just treating the symptoms while the malaise is deep rooted needing a thorough overhaul, even rebooting.
Is someone behind this and if so who? Maybe, we are under the thumb of someone who cuts us down to size from time to time!
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
5 Jan 21
We are affected by the world that we live in and you how filthy the world is. We are far behind from our Creator. We are doomed to our misgivings and uncleanness. We are impure, imperfect.
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@Shiva49 (26659)
• Singapore
5 Jan 21
We have a higher awareness for a purpose but we take things for granted with an entitlement mentality and approach. We are supposed to be caretakers of this wonderful planet but we live as if there is no tomorrow.
We reap what we sow cannot be truer.
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
10 Jan 21
@Shiva49 That's how irresponsible and greedy the people are except for others who are not.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
15 Feb 21
for me there is no creator - just blind nature
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@RebeccasFarm (89832)
• Arvada, Colorado
10 Jan 21
Yes we should make the most of what weve got
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@innertalks (21904)
• Australia
4 Jan 21
That's a nice assessment of where we are at.
The emptiness of life cannot be filled up with more emptiness.
The only way out is not up, but down into the deepness of our souls, where God has planted its roots within him.
Such a pushing of us down, from proudly trying to rise up too high, by clandestine means, always prepares us for such a fall, and so we have to return to our roots once again, and start to freshly grow in a better way from the original rootstock, rather than from a side sucker approach anymore, which never works for anyone.
@innertalks (21904)
• Australia
5 Jan 21
@Shiva49 That's well said, siva.
Selfishness is often the thing that is behind most of the World's problems. People want to put themselves first, rather than consider the other person's position.
We need to reconsider our responses, and try to react from the better more loving, considerate, compassionate, thoughtful, loving part of ourselves, rather than from the more the shallow selfish parts of us.
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@Shiva49 (26659)
• Singapore
5 Jan 21
@innertalks That is true. When I talk on those lines people tend to say it is an idle dream, idealistic, altruism, that won't happen ever.
I feel lost when most are resigned to a state to feel nothing can be done to change our habits, lifestyle.
I think then we spurn the heaven on earth and also disavow our creator showing total disregard to innate goodness we are born with
@Shiva49 (26659)
• Singapore
5 Jan 21
Yes Steve, we are given a sumptuous spread with many a fellow traveler to partake in it too.
We could be the most selfish as we tend to hoard beyond our needs. Then we go hammer and tong to subdue other species, encroach on their habitat, then we point an accusing finger at them. I recall Steve Irwin whose oft repeated words ring inside me "Isn't she a beauty?" "She" could be the most poisonous of snakes or the most unpredictable croc. He could well say now "It is my mistake" when a stingray barb struck him in the heart. Such was his love for nature and other species.
We need to delve deeper by calling a halt to selfish pursuits. The soul inside has to be awakened and sixth sense too brought into play. All will fall in place when we find the time to do so.
“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry" is not the be all and end of life; we have a higher purpose and that will become clear when we realize "The only way out is not up, but down into the deepness of our souls, where God has planted its roots within him."
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