spiritual warfare
it's when you're really, really faithful to God and His words so the devil gives you bigger trials for him to break your soul.. to get you mad or question or hate God. i have heard this from my roomie. i believe in what she says but it got me thinking... i haven't experienced any trials in life that made me question God. is it because my faith was not as big as hers, or is it because i don't believe in satan? hmn.
i believe devils are human beings who do bad things, harmful things. but every one of us has this tiny, microscopic goodness in our hearts that never fades. everyone has a good side and it's all i focus on everyone i know. yes, i may not like a person but it doesn't mean i hate 'em because we're not of the same lifestyle, or wavelength. people see the lava, the fire that comes out in the volcano, but i focus on what's fueling the magma, what's making it rattle.
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heartbreak warfare
"Love is a battlefield."
that's how the song goes.
people fight for love because they feel a different kind of happiness around the person. and you don't get to feel it with everyone else. they want to constantly experience that happiness so they do things to make it work. it is downright selfish but true. all of us are the same -- behind the facade, the poker face, the steel walls -- we all want the happiness that comes from being loved by someone we love as well. it's fighting for your right to be happy.
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power warfare
addiction is a constant surrender to a craving. i have read that to fight addiction, you have to fight your battle on power, on taking control.
"rationale: each person struggles daily and deeply with power - it's lack or absence and its acquisition. connected to this is the fact that beneath every crisis in life, whatever it is emotional, physical, spiritual, or physiological, is the issue of taking control, which is actually power." (Cory Quirino)
our mind is very powerful, yet we never use it well. we let the cravings overtake us; the environment, we let it dictate us. but we can do anything we set our mind to, and it includes getting out of an addiction.