I think everyone gets asked “So what are you?” or “What’s
your religion?” a few times in their life. I know I have and I haven’t been on
the planet very long. When I was little my first answer would be ‘Christian,’
then add ‘but we don’t go to church’. My mom grew up in church and so did my
brothers, but the tradition stopped with me. My mom didn’t stop believing in
God, I actually think not going to church helped her relationship with God or
the universe or whatever is out there. When I was younger I would ask my mom
what we believed in, and she would say “Whatever you want too. God is
everything you want Him or Her to be. God could be a tree or a woman or a man
with a long grey beard, God is whatever you want him to be,” and of course as a
little kid I was stumped, “But what is the RIGHT God?” I would ask, not
grabbing the concept, and my mom would just sigh and smile, and tell me that it
will come to me. Again confused at not being told what to do or think I would
wonder and still do, if what I do as a person is wrong, if it makes God angry
or disappointed in me. That maybe I will or the people I love will get hurt if
I do something wrong? But again what is wrong to God?
Now before I continue to into my ‘viewings’ you may be
wondering, if anyone is actually reading this thing, ‘why is a blog that is
about women feeling good about their size, talking about religion?’ Okay yes I
admit that this blog is taking a turn in this posting, but just stick with me,
because my blog isn’t just about women feeling good about themselves, it’s
about THE WORLD feeling good, and trying to spread happiness. So now that has
been said I will continue.
Where was I? Oh yes, what is wrong to God? Hmmm. I’m really
not 100% sure what God does or does not like, we haven’t really met personally,
but I here are some things I think God does like.
DOES:
1)
I think God like’s people who are good. People
who are straight, gay, bi, tattooed, pierced, not tattooed or pierced. People
with brown, blonde, red, purple, green, rainbow or no hair. People who cuss and
people who don’t. People who like sex and people who don’t. People that are
plump and people who are thin. As long as people are good, that have a good
soul, I think that’s what God cares about.
2)
I think God likes pizza, but really, who
doesn’t?
3)
I think God likes a good joke.
4)
I think God likes it when people talk to God.
5)
I think God likes me.
Those are just a few things.
In my opinion, I think if you are a good person, and there
is not one way to be a good person, then you are beautiful. I believe I have
said that previously but it’s true so I am saying it again. Try and be happy!
There is nothing better in the world than truly being happy, well maybe
Starbucks is better, but then Starbucks makes me happy, so really it’s a sunshiny
circle of happiness. I like smiling and laughing and making other people smile
and laugh. I like being plump. I like coffee. I like running around in the
rain. I like trying to see the good in people, not the bad.
I know people, and these are people I love, that say that
they are cynics or pessimists, like it’s a good thing! Like it’s something to
be proud of? So either these people don’t know what that means, or they are
really sad. I don’t believe that doubting the good in the world and everything
in it is a healthy way to live your life. Wouldn’t it be better not to be angry
and hurt all the time? Yeah it’s easier, but it doesn’t feel good, it’s doesn’t
make things better. Why wouldn’t you want to be happy, and be proud of that?
I know anger and sadness are a part of life. I deal with it
a million times a day. Without anger or sadness, or bad things happening then
people wouldn’t grow. You can’t have happiness without pain, but you can have
pain without happiness, does that make sense? If I let all the upsetting
emotions that go through me a million gazillion times a day really weigh me
down, and welcome them without trying to shoot some happiness into them, then I
wouldn’t get out of bed! But instead, I take those painful memories and
experiences and mold them into something positive, which takes me back to God.
Look I am not saying I have never been angry with God, that
I haven’t shut God out, I have and probably will again, because sucky things
happen, and it’s easier to get mad at something that won’t yell back. It’s
easier to blame everything bad or ugly that happened in your life on God. I think
God expects that, that God knows that, and is always ready for it, and is
always ready for YOU when you are ready for God or the universe or whatever you
believe in when the time is right. I think that when you are ready to finally
let the light back into your life again, then you are ready to live a happy
life. And maybe you’re thinking, ‘This chick doesn’t know me or what I go
through every day, and she’s got the gall to tell me to be happy with all I
have to deal with? The stress and worry of everyday in my life is going to go
away, if I only smile?’
Nope I’m not saying that, it takes work to feel happy. If it
didn’t then everyone and their mother would be happy, but it’s not and they’re
not. What I am saying is only you can make the decision to be happy about how
you feel, look, taste, dance, sing, bathe, eat, watch TV, sleep, what clothes
you wear or not wear if that’s your thing, and if you’re not happy then make a
change. Because you are already perfect, you are the one who doesn’t think so
and if someone in your life is telling you otherwise, then you and that person
shouldn’t be in a relationship, and once you know that you are perfect, then
things will get better. God, the universe, the power, the WHATEVER IS OUT
THERE, already knows that you are perfect. They are just waiting for you to
know it too.
P.S.
It never hurts to smile! Unless you have a toothache or
something like that, but even then try!
