Another List, or Disappointment

I liked the whole list thing, so here goes another one:

Faith in God and His individual plan for us is a choice. And when the choice to trust God is made, sweet assurances, such as peace and security, are felt. 

God can help us choose to have faith. One way He does so is by preparing us for current challenges through our past experiences.

Remembering who God is and what the purpose of life is eases disappointment. A proper and true perspective changes everything.

Unpleasant feelings aren't meant to be smothered by pretend happiness.

Sometimes we don't receive strong spiritual impressions or experiences from God because we don't need them at that time. Instead, He'll give us less intense doses of ideas or simple thoughts. He wants us to learn to rely on Him, not just on strong feelings or experiences.

Experience allows us to relate with others.

Simply being oneself is so relieving. Trying to guess what others want or expect is both draining and impossible. Really, how could we hope to please everyone all at once? By trying to be what we hope others want, we may temporarily please some people, but we will unknowingly push away those people who want to be close to us. Our true friends and loved ones don't want to be close to the "us" we want people to like. They want to be close to just us, our true selves.

God is the same way. He loves us as we are. And we don't have to pretend with Him. We can, if we want, be our true selves with Him. It does take some practice and trust, but we can learn to do it more constantly and with greater willingness. It becomes easier and easier the more we feel that God's love is consistent and perfect.