Life - God Plays Chess Backwards (Page 2)

God Plays Chess Backwards

Sign in Subscribe

Life

A collection of 276 posts

You Know It’s The Lord Speaking To You When

You Know It’s The Lord Speaking To You When

You see your selfish will or things outside you, aren't going to direct you...

We All Get Lost Along The Way

We All Get Lost Along The Way

But seriously stop and think about it as you're sitting there right now. Do you consider your life a journey? Or perhaps it feels more like a log drifting down the river? Or worse yet perhaps it doesn't feel like anything, perhaps it just feels like nothing?

Letting Go... Is Harder Than Holding Tight

Letting Go... Is Harder Than Holding Tight

Your heart and your mind are claws, gripping it tightly. Giving you excuse after excuse why you should not let go. Filling you with panic and anxiety...

God Has Made Me Forget All My Hardship

God Has Made Me Forget All My Hardship

This time the "forget" part got me. Because it reminded me that when you heal, you stop being anxious or hurt by the past. And you can even move forward...

Narcissists Dissolve Your Ability to Feel Hope

Narcissists Dissolve Your Ability to Feel Hope

Most people don't know or understand the damage a narcissist can do to a person. Sure we hear stories and see stuff on social media about it. Even some 51 part TikTok stories. And those stories are important to get out and be heard. But most people don&

The Story of Joseph. God Plays Chess Backwards.

The Story of Joseph. God Plays Chess Backwards.

Think about it backwards, not forwards:

Spending All Your Time In The Past

Spending All Your Time In The Past

Do you find yourself stuck in the past? Perhaps you would say no to that question. But what if I asked in a different way... Do you find yourself stuck looking at old photo albums over and over, and you are filled with regret? Or perhaps looking through your closet

Nudges

When god introduces something new to your thinking it can often be because he’s stopping your current thought line and deflecting you either towards his will, or away from something not good. For instance if you’re thinking about a new sofa. And he brings a vacation to your

Why Is It Now Culturally Unacceptable To Let Yourself Feel Hungry?

Why Is It Now Culturally Unacceptable To Let Yourself Feel Hungry?

Are You Convincing Yourself Of Something?

Are You Convincing Yourself Of Something?

One of the biggest problems I often see is that someone is merging "what not to do in a toxic relationship" with "what to do in a healthy relationship".

Are You Done Now?

Are You Done Now?

You see He knows how you're wired. Where you are at in life mentally, financially, physically, emotionally. And he can plan for ...

How They Do It

Obviously the dude is toxic and all that jazz. And the comments were a 💩 show, just like you would expect. So instead of engaging in that thread of typical comments I decided to...

Can You Be Disconnected From Yourself?

Can You Be Disconnected From Yourself?

Sometimes we override ourselves by thinking too much or too hard. We feel something, but then run that feeling over with what we think we want, what we think looks good.

Control Freaks are Idolaters?

Control Freaks are Idolaters?

You seek that outcome so much that you have put it on a pedestal and are spending countless amounts of energy trying to get what you want to happen.

Still Working on Character Design

Still Working on Character Design

Bring Back Names That Mean Something

Bring Back Names That Mean Something

does your name having meaning give you more meaning and purpose in life than if your name is just a series of letters...

Are You Willing to Be Changed?

Are You Willing to Be Changed?

We want our lives to be different, which is to change. But we don't turn the camera view around from what we are looking at and wanting, to see and realize that it's us who has to change.

Serpents and Doves

Serpents and Doves

...Or asked yourself how do you do this? I mean, sure we get the concept. But how do you live it out in real life?

There is No State of Stasis or Pause with Life

There really isn't the simplicity of “you’re either improving or declining”, when you really stop and think about it.

Is it OK to Not Be as Far Along?

Is it OK to Not Be as Far Along?

You will probably notice a lot of decisions you made. A lot of opportunities that you got, that those other people didn't.

Refusing to Feel Your Feelings vs Running From Them

But it wasn't the feeling itself that threw me off. It was a question that came to mind.

Time Can Disappear on You, But it's Not Always Bad

... sometimes time slipping away isn't actually all that bad. Sometimes you need that time, slowly ticked away for you to ...

What if Every Problem You Have Boils Down to...

Whatever our problems are, it always boils down to us refusing to release the clenched grasp we have on it...

Don’t Let the Pain and Mistakes of the Past Form Your Habits Today and Tomorrow

Sometimes we're just running on autopilot without realizing, until we're in a mess again, that we're heading in a bad direction again. We've returned to the mess, although a different version of it, we just go ourselves out of.

Back To Basics - Learning

Back To Basics - Learning

So it's "back to school" time for me. Just this time it's not technology or communications. It's art that will turn into media.

Social Media

Twitter: God Plays Chess Backwards

Credits

Fonts Licensed From
Nate Piekos @ http://blambot.com/