FIND GOD
This task will be as difficult or as easy as you make it. Life is the ultimate mystery, and the best we can do is approach it as such, accepting the fact that we have to settle for that which we intuit, or sense, as long as it is intellectually acceptable.
God deserves more from us than a theological doctrine with “answers” to all of our questions. God must be experienced! Do not settle for the God of your parents, or their parents, or the God of any church or dogma, but seek the God that you can find and know, and believe, and nothing less. God is not a science, and we don’t need “answers”; we can live with the mystery and the questions.
You are God’s creation...respect that creation and you worship God, far more than you could with any service or pageantry or other public utterances.
Do not be discouraged by spiritual tides that will wash away your faith as easily as they bring it. Your faith may be eroded, but somehow, in the course of a lifetime, the core of your faith will survive.
LIVE LIFE FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Only by looking inward can you navigate the world around you without being overcome by the forces of conformity, custom, convention, expectations of others and tradition, all of which may be directing you away from the paths of your choice. It is very easy to follow a course that may be popular, well thought of by others, and free of risk and stress. But if it is not your path, your direction, or your call, it will lead you nowhere. Ultimately there is only your self to answer to.
The journey inward is not a call to self-absorption and narcissism, but a preparation for the journey outward. Only by serving ourselves can we effectively serve others. There are those who belittle or criticize self-reflection unjustly, probably because they lack the courage to do so themselves. But in all things, there can be excess, using the inward journey to avoid the external world, or becoming obsessed and blinded by your own impressions of yourself. Against this you must guard.
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