I vacillate between something like agnosticism and faith. I do not believe God has a major role in our health and happiness, nor do I believe Satan, Lucifer or any devil is responsible for our problems. Rather I believe in a limited "free will" the ability to make choices, the tough part is living with the outcomes of our choices and admitting we are responsible! To be sure genetics, epigenetics, learning and other Neuroscience possibilities limit our "free will" a helluva lot more than we are aware of. But despite this we are 95% in charge of our outcomes in life. ADHD may be many things, but it can relegate us to a sense of being trapped. A feeling of being overwhelmed, out of control and anger can quickly take over. The other side of this is feeling helpless and unable to deal with anything stressful (since just living is stressful that means anything) and angry with ourselves. Well neither is helpful nor conducive to progress and happiness.

Exercise, eating healthy, and doing something for someone else without reward are the best ways to get out of the angry at me or angry at the world or feeling helpless or crazy (meaning your mind runs at the speed of light but you are getting nowhere).

Give to God love and then give to yourself love and then get your ass in motion, helping yourself and someone else. The times when its a bitch to get going it might be you are going in the wrong direction or it can be just plain hard to do it but have faith if it is the correct direction the rewards will surpass the pain.

Everyone is flawed, a sinner, have "feet of clay", but not all the time, the devil went to hell because of gigantic hubris, maintain modesty but do not confuse it with servility. You can only progress and cope when you are the architect of your accomplishments, not God.

I was a probation officer, saw many bad things and many people doing very bad things to themselves and others, but the only way they changed was by doing something right and owning it. God did not do it for them. There are many great things in the Bible and much pure crap! Since men wrote it, not God or Jesus, it exemplifies both the good and the bad. Much of what is said in many religions that is good is the same. Unfortunately, people seldom follow the good and twist the words to suit their own ambitions and desires. Be a doubter, an acceptor, and a lover, that was what Jesus did as did many others who were great spiritual people. As for ADHD, whatever it is, its our part of the journey of life accept it and deal with it, fail often but try more often. Pray for ideas, enlightenment, and knowledge, and for love, but don't ask God to fix things, or blame things on the devil.

This writing helps me to gain my own perspective and reading others helps keep me open minded but not gullible or accepting without thought. Its all valid and invalid...remember the probability of you or me ever existing is so infantisemal we cannot even imagine it...that is a real work of God.

Thanks,

TPT

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