Successful Living

The 10 Commandments coupled with Christ’s teachings are the best foundation for conducting your life to be meaningful, successful and worthwhile. These principles give us instructions on how to conduct ourselves with each other and how to find meaning for life.

Generally, if you do the right things and make the right choices, your life will be rewarding, you will find solutions to problems, things will work out well and you will be grateful. If you do the wrong things and make bad choices, your errors will result in misery and great difficulty. You will need to return to the 10 Commandments and Christ’s teaching to get your life back on track. 

It is not difficult to live in God’s presence every day if you remain mindful and grateful to God every day.  You don’t have to spend time in church or in formal prayer, you just need to be quiet and listen for your gut to give you answers. We are sovereign beings with free will and are totally responsible for our circumstances. When difficulties befall us, we are required to work through these difficulties. Failures are instructive and can usually be overcome.

Our earth and its place in our galaxy and in our universe is a miracle. Our very existence is a miracle. We are mammals with souls. We are complex biological entities with complex chemical reactions that allow us to adapt and survive if we are wise and careful. We know enough to realize how little we understand about how we function. We are fragile and susceptible to injury, illness and death. We are alive for usually no more than 100 years, but we cannot imagine ceasing to exist. 

Our hope to continue to exist after our death is based on faith. Knowing we lack definitive proof of our immortality, I still recommend we take the evidence available to us and believe. This evidence is found in the historical record and in our daily life experience.  We have each had our difficulties, surrendered to God’s Will and overcame our difficulties. Our acceptance of this process is based on the belief that God has a Plan for us and it includes times of trials and victories.

We can only change ourselves because we are sovereign beings with free will.  We cannot change others. They are responsible for themselves.  We can help others based on our proximity to them.  Our families get first dibs on our time. This is the way it has been for over 60,000 years.

Our prayer should be for wisdom. The goal for our life is gratefulness.  If we achieve a state of gratefulness we will have succeeded.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader