Three stages of life: P.A.C.
Parental – function, care, educator
Adult - position of responsible,
Child – product, carefree, student
Child: includes pre-natal and infancy. We began to become aware of the world around us. This is our teacher. We develop habits by the “monkey see monkey do” concept. We only know what we are taught.
The atmosphere around us develops the positives and negatives. We absorb that atmosphere as our world outlook in life. We start to develop our personalities. We do have an innate ability (or some may say instinct) to know right from wrong (though some may argue this).
This confuses our train of thought. Our mind starts to develop in ways it isn’t supposed to. Our brain will look for ways to make sense of it all. We might start developing little quirks or habits to compensate and take our minds off the confusion.
The innate knowledge of knowing the abuse you received as a child wasn’t right, but you had to except it or something worst might happen.
We find ways to reset an assumed normal balance in life with something that will either block or hide the emotions developed by the confusion. We try to find something that eases the stress and pain.
Trauma starts the moment we are conceived. What you experience in the womb will also affect you after birth. What did mom experience during pregnancy? Was she on medication or drugs? Did she herself experience trauma, …?
Adult: the age a person reaches to make accountability decisions; to say, "this is my choice, I take responsibility". To coin the expression “you should know better” may not always apply. Again, you only know what you have been taught. If you have been taught to hate those different than you, then that is what you know. If you have been taught that drugs are okay, than that is what you know. By time you reach adulthood, your understanding of the world has been set. All the influences have come together. From that you make your decisions of how your life will be. Utilizing your gift of choice!
Parent: the protector, defender, provider, teacher. You don’t need children of your own to be a parent. There are those who have children, but aren’t parents. A parent is to be the heart of the family or community. Loving!
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What puts your life over all other life?
Some will tell you that life is a chance that evolved from nothing into you. Some will tell you it is by design or Devine intervention.
Either way you believe; you will soon learn
Life is awesome and worth living!
God said,
Let us make man IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS:
Gen. 1:26
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AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND, BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL:
Gen 2:7
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7 (God) made (man) a little lower than the angels; (HE) crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of (His) hands: Heb.2:7
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27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:27,28
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YOU ARE A REFLECTION OF GOD
YOU ARE HIS REPRESENTATION
GOD’S REFLECTION IS A POSITIVE
UNDISTORTED IMAGE
CLEAN, ENERGY, POWER, LIGHT
LOVE
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16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities,or powers:
all things were created by him, and for him: Col. 1:16
Look into a mirror.
What do you see?
Do you like what you see?
IS YOUR MIRROR CLEAN & SMOOTH?
IF YOU SEE POSITIVE, YOU GET POSITIVE!
PRETTY, SMART, HOPEFULL, LIGHT -
OR IS IT DIRTY & DISTORTED?
IF YOU SEE NEGATIVE, YOU GET NEGATIVE!
THINK POSITIVE!
You are made in His likeness
Pac-Man: an arcade game developed by Namco in Japan on May 22, 1980.
licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway and released in October 1980.
In the 1980s, we played an arcade game called "Pac Man".
The player is the little yellow avatar you controlled through the maze collecting the dots along the way. The bigger dot the more points or 'euphoria'. In the process of navigating the maze, Pac Man would be chased by the pink, orange, blue, and red ghosts.
Much as in real life, we find ourselves running through life collecting things - education, jobs, money - things to make our lives better to make us happy. Unfortunately, we often find ourself caught by the past ghost in our life and things don't turn out the way we envisioned.
