Lowcarbfriend

Since the other thread was taken down. Here is another shot at it.

The intention of this thread is encouraging well being and sharing emotional and spiritual support for those who are NOT believers.

I would respectfully ask that those who are believers please NOT post here and post in your own multitude of threads. This is simply respectful, considerate, courteous, civil and right. Much as us non-believers stay out of your religious threads — we politely ask you stay out of ours.

So, that being said how do you non-believers provide spiritual and emotional support for yourselves?

Personally, I meditate and have found running, hiking and bicycling as quasi- spiritual activities that help me come closer to nature and the world. In other areas of my life I have been a Social Worker and I am currently working in an internship to complete my training as a Psychologist — this work has brought me great humility, compassion for the human experience and even ever closer to the quintessence of humanity and the inherent spirituality of the human mind regardless of any structured belief.

Here are some quotes that essentially mirror MY spiritual belief system.

"Ethical Humanism is primarily an attitude about human beings, their worth, and the significance of their lives. It is concerned with the nature and quality of living; the character and creativity of our relationships. Because of this concern, humanism spontaneously flowers into a spiritual movement in its own right."
Edward Ericson

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.” And who writes this book? You do. You are the author and you are the hero of your own story. No, you don’t get to set every plot detail. Many of those are circumstantial. But much of the plot is yours to write. Upon what path do you want to set yourself? What qualities do you want to manifest? You are the author of your own story and you decide."
Anais Nin

"Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is "spiritual" when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life"
Robert C. Fuller

"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

"I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he must have a good heart, a warm heart. This is essential for a happy life, which is much more important than Buddhahood. This is part of what I call ’secular ethics’".
Dalai Lama

"Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs."
Paramahansa Yogananda

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
Anais Nin

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
Anais Nin:

I saw an old friend of the family today. He just blurted out, you got really chubby. Took everything in me not to cry. He is old mind you but thats no excuse…made me feel so bad.

I love that song!

Hey Guys ~

Something just happened to me in my kitchen that inspired this thread ~ on a dime.

I noticed some of Raja’s dog food that my daughter’s BF tossed in the sink last night for me. This morning it was all water soaked and many times bigger; thinking that is what happens to dog food after eaten by our pets…its swells in their tummy…

My thoughts immediately went to Titan and I could not stop crying…. He was our 4 year Great Dane that died of bloat despite all the precautions we took…

One should always soak Dane’s foods…..and we did…but DID we that day? Did we allow him to run after he ate….

This happened to my daughter and I in the middle of losing our home of 22 years, our business of 21 years, totaling my Expedition…..

The hits just kept on coming in the course of three months….

The last thing that happened, after we moved to our new home, here in a very good neighborhood….we had everything, everything stolen from our car port, all of our clothes, kitchen ware, everything that was in boxes over 100 …in the middle of the day ~

We had one spoon left. No blankets, sheets, NO clothes…Years of jewlery…movies…imagine everything………gone.

It was the worst time of our lives and I thought I was not going to make it ~ I Never prayed so hard ~ after we had to put down our Dane, at the ER wanted $2300 to even think of operating, and they said it would not help anyways….My daughter looked at me and said: "why is he punishing us, Mom?"…….she no longer believes in God.

We lost so much in three months ~ this was three years ago and when I saw that soaked dog food in my sink just now?……..

Talk about a blast from a wicked past ~

I wanted this thread to be about faith. About believing in God. My daughter was 18 at that time, now she is 21 and still does not believe in God….hopefully this will change…

I see so many sad and depressed folks on this board and I want you guys to know….you can prevail if you believe in your faith and work hard and don’t give up ~

I remember in the mist of all this, going outside in my backyard and looking up and yelling and screaming: " what do you want from me??"

Seeing that dog food just now, granted I lost it, but I know now that there is nothing I can not come back from and you can too!

I learned that sometimes we have to give it all to God. Just give it to him and don’t look back.

Any or no comments are welcome

I just want you all to know that I am praying for you all, and I know that with the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary we will be able to stay strong and lose this weight. Please know that if you ever want to talk just send me a private message, we are in this together let us be there for each other!!

Well, I’ve never posted in this section of the website before … so here I am!

I was hoping that people would pray for me regarding employment. I recently moved to boony-land (far away from home) and am living on my own for the first time. I HATE it up here and want to find something closer to home!!! That being said, wherever God leads, right????

Anyways, I’ve been applying for several jobs (in teaching) and one came available in one of my old practicum classes – basically, the regular classrom teacher hurt her back and went on leave. I have taught over half of the students (split-level classroom) and would LOVE to take the class while she is away. The posting closes Wednesday and I am REALLY hoping tha I get called for an interview, etc.

Would you all be able to pray about this? If I don’t get this one, I really hope God paves a way down to where family is soon…

Thanks for everything .. I’m just so homesick!!!!

I have been so busy I have not been able to get on here. I have a drs appt today to see about what I can do to have a baby besides lose weight
I am also going to go tomorrow to a group called first place for health it deals with the reasons we eat and not just what we eat. Please keep my husband in your prayers, He lost his job and he in trying so hard to find another one have a blessed day