God Lives In a Space In Your Heart
“I will die at 2/22/2020”
Those are the words that shook me and got my full attention when I saw it come in my text message as I was talking to my friend about her depression. A moment later, my manager called me because he was concerned for her life.
I have heard about suicidal stories. I have also heard about suicidal attempts from a heartbreak. I have also heard about beliefs that people have about the end of the world and the end of their life. But I have never heard it this way.
Reading it on my phone in a blue blurb was already shocking enough. But then hearing it in her own voice, simply just made me … afraid.
I was afraid for her, and I was afraid for myself. I was afraid because I knew from the bottom of my heart that I was the only person she trusted and if there was anyone who can help talk to her and change her mind, it was going to be me … right then… and right now.
I had to come up with the right thing to say not to trigger her and I had to say it in a way that she could trust me, which meant, it needed to come from her own heart.
Damn.
It was hard.
Yeah I’ve been a life coach and I’ve worked with clients who are hard to change their mind, but this was next level. I felt responsible to come up with the courage to step up, be with her feelings and try my best to change her own perception, and shift it towards the positive … and keep her still connected to me on the phone.
I prayed.
I said, “God please give me strength to help, not to judge but to listen and to please be with her in her heart”.
Then we prayed.
I asked her to pray with me so that both of us, who are both afraid, pray that God would live in our hearts. That we can create a space in our heart for God to live, and for our loved ones who have passed may live side by side in that space. And in order for us to communicate with God and our loved ones, all we had to do was … believe in our self.
We also wanted to be grateful.
Being grateful have changed my life and my mindset. Mainly because being grateful helps me realize all the wonderful things that I have available for me from God to enjoy. Being grateful also made me realize that the purpose of life is not to find it, but to enjoy it.
So we said it … Together
Then we ended with this …
And that’s how we shifted our perception.
It was truly a miracle.
Of course, transformation in the mind did not happen within 45 minutes. But the fundamental shift happened. And truly the shift is from believing that God lives outside of us, into the perception that God lives within our hearts. It is easy to consider such a big spiritual belief to be above us, or outside of us in a form of a big tree, or the wind, but when you believe that God all powerful and all kindness lives in the space that lives within us… then we realize that we can talk to God anytime, anywhere, as long as we are conscious of his presence within us.
