Have you ever known someone to quit...when they were only five feet from the finish line?
What should you have told them....knowing what you know now?
2007-11-24 19:15:25 · 18 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Unless they are dead, there is no time limit. All we can say is that they have given up, but they will inevitably cross sooner or later. I tell them to rest.
2007-11-25 04:46:33 · answer #1 · answered by neil s 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am interested in another aspect, nearly the reverse of what you are asking.
It comes from my observation that there are quite a few spiritual people who have quit, but they don't know that they have quit. They are only five feet from the finish line, but they don't realize this because 'they think' they've finished. It then boils down to the difficulty of going beyond one's perception and identification with oneself. So many people are so close to finishing, it's just a single thread that needs to be seen and broken so that they can let go of being the container. This came up in the other thread, woe to those who are flesh but know not the soul, and woe to those who know the soul but not the flesh. Some people are blind to who they are, but others do so much work and come to realize they are more than just the body. But then they become attached to themselves as 'pure awareness', causing a split from their body. Thus, an integration can't happen. I really want to do something about this, to find out what I can tell them, but at the moment I don't know what it is.
I feel in Phae's response there is a clue, that if one can express themselves in an essential way to another, then in affect one is making an 'essential touch' with them. If we can engage the structure and energy (body and spirit) of the other with the body and spirit of oneself, then information can be shared.
Betsy
2007-11-27 14:47:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure as I'm not near there yet. I still feel like quitting...oh how I wish I can quit. But my fear of having even more bad karma is preventing me from quitting. It's like I'm running and it's so darn tiring that I want to quit but I have this fear that if I do quit I'll have to start from square one again, no matter what.
I don't know how to put that in words. I guess, "And to the one that endures, I will give you the finish line." Or in other words, "I will give you the power to your own ending."
That would be nice if I can write the last chapter of my life the way I want it to be.
2007-11-25 09:26:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ooo Ooo! Is this fill in the blank?
"will grant to eat from the tree of life" -Revelation 2:7
"will give you the crown of life" -Revelationn 2:10
"will give him some of the hidden manna,...and a white pebble" -Revelation 2:17
"will give authority over the nations...and the morning star" -Revelation 2:26, 28
"will thus be arrayed in white outer garments...and I will make acknowledgement of his name before my Father and before his angels" -Revelation 3:5
"will make him a pillar in the temple of my God...and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God" -Revelation 3:12
"will grant to sit down with me on my throne" -Revelation 3:21
2007-11-25 03:27:03 · answer #4 · answered by johnusmaximus1 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Keep going, you have fought the Evil One your Hole ''SPIRITUAL'' Life. I'll help pick
you up and we together will finish the last
five feet to our Father, Son and the Holy
Spirit into eternity in the promise land we
call heaven.
2007-11-27 03:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by David 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"hey, you're 5 feet from the finish line. Take 3 steps and then fall down...you'll have finished the race'
2007-11-25 03:19:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I as you know Sunman am a little on the dark side. I understand the spirit of your question and it is good. You and some others will understand my answer but others may not. With that said, "I will give you more to endure, and more, until you discover it's all just a game of hide-n-seek". : )
2007-11-25 21:45:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Crown of Eternal Life.
2007-11-25 03:18:16 · answer #8 · answered by Apostle Jeff 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Nothing...I will not need to give you anything. You will have earned all you need when you cross that finish line. What stops you? You do, you need to figure out why. Then you will truly have won...in so many ways.
2007-11-25 11:41:36 · answer #9 · answered by Bella Wolffe 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Take a breath.
Feel the pain and fear you are experiencing right now. Feel it and let it settle.
Relax.
There really is a 'there' to get to.
You're almost there.
Hold my hand.
Now!
Forward!
EDIT
Pottering around the house, vacuuming, I realise that I STILL need people to say that to me.
2007-11-25 06:18:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋