Living in denial is never a healing proposition, don't do it. forgive to forget and watch the healing from all sides of your life Transpire. Be Brave, Brave LoVe™
Mark of Christ™
There are physical scars and wounds that can be a source of embarrassment, leading someone to feel judged or humiliated. We neglect our own humanity, ignore our imperfections and flaws, the very flaws that makes us a Mark. After facing my own personal battles over the last few years, the Mark of Christ has evolved to include those marked with the battle scars of life. My life after Traumatic Brain Injury, and its invisible scars, caused me to reconsider my own judgments and the marks we may not see, the invisible disabilities, the personal deficiencies that so many of us face every day. Giving each subject a voice and a platform, will serve to knock down the stereotypes, and reclaim those moments. The movement celebrates rocking your Mark, showing the world who you are and what can happen when we look past a few inches of flesh. It is the opportunity to see the whole picture, so we truly understand that having a mark is just the beginning, the true journey of life is about being a Mark. The stories in the Mark of Christ photo journal are directly from the individuals themselves. It takes each Mark and introduces them and their journeys, how they stared adversity in the face and learn to really live life again.
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I read a post and as many things day to day I now after 6 years in the war of tbi I now can relfect and not have to react fight and question, hate myself or what has happened to my family and I. it is So true and necessary for us all to truly move forward to love freely. Our selves and others. Healing and recovery does happen.I know allot of us survivors have a hard time with this. I did. it was not only hard but for a time I didn't care if it was hard because I thought it was over for me, to much lost, but there hasn't been a second I ever lost the presence of God and my faith. I say my faith because we experience abandonment from family and friends such a catastrophic magnitude. Certainly through our journey in recovery it his horrid, scary and at times we have all thought of giving up. I can assure you by sticking together we are not only never alone but loved and supported.
Its taken me 6 years to even remotely resemble who I once was, but in the process I have had no time to grieve no time to not fight for my life but now Im grateful and still God as given me purpose and I will always do what I can for my fellow survivor. Its hard to be thankful for the pain however I told god when i was 17 years of age, I want to know you all of you and he did not only answer me at the time in italy on a pilgrimage but somehow made all of this make sense to serve humanity.
He has used my talents to keep me alive. I never thought my gift of music would save my life so many times. yes the seizures happen , I can never tour again because we never know how we are going to feel but agin in the last 6 months no cane from my spinal fusion but i am playing even if its just for a little bit. The light, and noise sensitivity sometimes I can't even look at a screen or it can trow me into a seisure but I have learned the balance we must have in life something I never practiced. I was all or nothing black or white and now I am what I am day to day and thats enough for me. But to get here my friends we do have to forgive which does not me we forget.
No one can understand us more then us and certainly those of us in which our lives were taken from us. Forgiveness and Peace were very hard but one evening on the beach in tears in excruciating pain I said it out loud and let it go. One of the hardest things about being a survivor. But know this we are not just survivors we are warriors of light and when we are light, even in the seconds that we may feel it, embrace it, it remains in us and on the days when it is dark, horrifying, I always know I can reach out and not be judged in my pain, not feel selfish or guilty for asking for help. I at times were embarrassed. But peace was never something I truly understood until I long for it. Be Brave my friends , Brave LoVe™. When we brave love, that equals peace forgiveness understand trust and faith all in one simple yet most complex conquest known to mankind..LoVe...That starts with you. Let yourself cry let yourself learn to laugh again even if it takes years.Be brave. 6 years later Im alive I walk a mile along the ocean, yes pain becomes an alarm clock that never seems to let up but even that I had to make friends with it, understand it, learn my body, its there but its not my existence anymore, I am not controlled by it. Instead I have learned many things. To be grateful in a way I never imagined. Again, be Brave Love yourself enough to forgive. Your quality of life depends on it. Lv to all of you - GregCosta
The Church Brigade
The problem with churches today is that people are walking away.
This bible belt has become a stain on this earth, it will only be time when the sky scrapers demolish these churches that have become everything but our heart’s home. It saddens me.
obviously not everyone, but Many.
Not because of God’s will, but of man’s forgetfulness of God’s purpose.
The day after Easter I went to a church across the street from where I live. As I walked in the guard said, "The sanctuary is closed.” I replied, “Seriously I just want to pray for a few minutes.” He says “Any day, but today sorry!”
So let’s look at this from all perspectives busy day , bad day etc….That same man on a Saturday a week later said the very same thing. And continued to explain “We don't just let people wander in off the street.” Ok, I get it but when it happened again the same way.
I thought, “For no man can be in the way of a love which is divine, God is love” There is no human time when God intervene's. Our spirit calls and he is ready, often waiting. I replied “Jesus walked the streets , moved mountains crossing deserts and through rivers to show us the way. Does God give us a time when our heart cries out and is in need of His grace? Is there a time when we the people are dying inside and need a quiet place to ask God to silence the world and speak?”He said, “Have I disrespected you?” I said that’s not a question you should ask me but God.
I walked away and went into the sanctuary to pray,
God responded.
"We are all wanderers in this world, in search of a love that can only be found in the Grace and footsteps of Christ".
I though hmmm... Your Always open God, answering the call no matter when, where or why, always welcoming into home of internal bedrooms and bountiful glory. With no need of perfection because you are just as you made us...dependent upon loVe and the desire to be loVe.
I left the sanctuary, offered my thanks and left the guard this note:
“For the Bible says, “And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders, 2And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
17And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
18Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
love having all my conversations,concerns and need brought and received by god, the only Insurance we have. SO don't ask whats in your wallet no-one cares and you can't by God just as much as you can't trademark the color blue..