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So you want to quit smoking?
What is smoking anyway? Inhaling gases from smoking devices held in
the hand. Beep. Being hooked on the process of lighting, enhaling and
exhaling smoke from a cigarette. Beep. Being overcome by a desire to hold
something in your hand. Beep. Well then. WHAT IS SMOKING?
Smoking is not the effects one sees. It is not the process of the
injection or expulsion of dangerous gases from one's lungs. It is the
overwhelming control of the physical body over the soul.
Ahhhhhhh. "Gee, not another religious sermon."....."Too much for
me."... "I thought I was gonna get a 'how to' instruction guide on how to
quit smoking, where's my lighter?".....
So, just because the words 'physical body' were used you get upset?
It's not that. "It the S word."
The "S" word.
Yes, the "S" word. You know. Soul. When we hear that it's either
time to cue the rapper and his scratch D.J. or it's time to run for cover
"Here come the preacher."... "HEAR COME THE PREACHER."
Well there is no intent to preach to you. No reference to Bible
verses. No long winded dissertations involving quotations from 'so and so's
latest book available at book stores everywhere for just $19.95 cause we get
a kick back for telling ya. Oh, no. No kick back and no book and no
preaching.
I guess I can listen then. What's it gonna hurt?
Right. Maybe it could help.
Couldn't hurt.
That's good enough. Who are you anyway?
I thought we were talking about smoking?
We are. Patience! Please....
OK... I give... who am I?
Thank you for the help but I'm asking the questions here, now who
are you?
I guess I am me.
Do you know who 'me' is?
What is this some kind of Gestalt class, some kind of inter-being,
be your own god, see the world in your Chevrolet kind of question?
No, nothing to do with Gestalt.........Now PLEASE answer.....Who is
Me?
Well if you don't know who you are how am I supposed to know.
Very funny.
I get it. Me is supposed to be something other than what I think
'me' is, right?
Very good.
And you thought I didn't have a complete grasp on things.
Well.........
Keep going.. We were talking about me.
Right. You. You are who you are but is what you are the same as
who you are?
Boy, you're about to lose me again.
Well then hold on cause here's the point.
It's about time.
You are you. And you are the spirit within that physical body you
so carefully prune and watch over and fret about. Each time you light up a
cigarette you (remember who you are?) are being controlled by the physical
body.
But I thought smoking was the physical addiction to nicotine? And
all that other disgusting, I know I shouldn't put into me stuff.
Now that would depend upon your perspective wouldn't it?
Explain that.
Perspective. It's just like the word of God.
You said no scripture quoting.
Don't need to.
OK.........?
The word of God was delivered in a spiritual inspiration to those
who could for one reason or another reduce that inspiration to words that
people in a different perspective could understand.
I said explain it, don't make it harder.
Sorry.......Let's try this......... Let's say that you were a
student of agriculture who never considered a need to learn how to use
algebra.
How'd ya know?
Well then one day a new county extension agent arrives on the scene
and begins to ask you questions about how you managed to grow four foot high
tomatoes and three foot long ears of corn.
Who needs him, with that I'd be rich.
Please leave the monetary persective out of this for now ok?
ok.........
So being the nice person you are.....
Thank you....
Don't mention it.... you decide to tell him everything you know
about raising corn and tomatoes and all the other things only you know about.
Well he takes that information and has to do something with it so he cuts it
down to size and turns it all into an algebraic equation.
What good would that do? There is not a single farmer I know who
worries about square roots.... Hey we try not to have them........
Exactly.. And that's my point. The extension agent goes off to tell
the world about how to grow big corn and the like and presents it in a
fashion YOU the giver of the corn did not mean. That means YOU the giver of
the corn, should have given it to someone who understood how to use the corn
info and also how to tell others about the corn info.
Well of course, any ninny knows that.
Exactly. But then even if you were to tell someone how to grow that
corn and they knew how to tell others how to grow that corn would the
perception of the students be the same as the writer?
Of course not. Unless they already knew how to grow big corn. And
since I am the only one, and the writer only lives for a short while and the
writings live much longer and the so called experts all want the information
they willlllllll........
Exactly. They will bring back algebra. They will examine the word.
They will conclude amongst themselves what the word means and they will
declare to everyone else that due to their special intellect and the
possession of something really important like a big piece of corn or
something that they know more and are therefore the ONLY source of
information the masses need. We call these people by two names.
What?
Scholars who use algebra (and other means) and Preachers (who use
other means). Neither one understands how to grow giant corn or giant
tomatoes but each is convinced they do.
Listen I hate to jump in here but what does all of this have to do
with my getting rid of 20 years of puffing Marlboros?
Everything. You see when I asked you who you were you thought I
meant the physical you. I meant YOU. You are your spirit. Your soul. You are
the life within the physical body. As life is the spirit not the physical
body. So quitting smoking is simple.
Excuse me...... quitting smoking is simple? Where have you been
bub? You must have never lit up a Camel. You must have never gotten so hooked
that you'd leave your job sight to go find a smoke. So hooked that you'd quit
a job just because they banned smoking in the work place.
Down..... my dear new friend.... good friend... No need to drool
and drop your head in anger... But I do know. I smoked since I was 14 years
old. But my story is not fair. And not important.
Hey, you're telling me to listen to what your saying and you won't
come clean yourself?
Oh, I'll come clean. It's just that I think my wife's story is much
more interesting. You see she smoked for 21 years and just last week she
finally
got it. What
makes her story so interesting is that she was in the same position you are
in not all that long ago.
Whattya mean?
She had just found out who she was. She had been raised as a
Pentacostal who was taught to wear only the right things and to keep the make
up off and to make sure that dress was long enough.
Nothing wrong with modesty.
Nothing at all when it is modesty. But modesty comes from within.
When physical behaviour and appearance is dictated by dogma it becomes one of
the main reasons people refuse to accept Christianity. Controls.
ok... go on I won't interrupt again........ much
Thank you.
But when will you get back to smoking. I want one.
Who wants one?
I do.
YOU do?
Well,...I guess I don't really.... ok....yeah that's right... my
body does.
Who's in charge in there?
I am.
Sounds to me like your body is in charge of your soul.
Not fair.
Who's idea was it to download and read this thing anyway?
Mine. I want to quit smoking. I know I have to if I want to live
longer.
Then would you let me explain?
I've been trying to for the last ten minutes.
You mean you haven't gotten anything out of our discussion?
Sure I have. I know not to tell a math teacher about my corn. I
know that I am really me and my 'me' is really my soul.
What else do you know?
I know that physical things like wearing too much make up and how
long a dress is has nothing to do with my spiritual being.
How did you get that?
I'm not as stupid as you think I am.
OH, my dear new friend.. I don't find you stupid at all. In fact I
find you very interesting. And very Smart. With a capital S. Whoops, there's
the "S" word.
Not the same "S" word. But you know something?
Not much.
Yeah right..... That other "S" word doesn't seem to have such an
unusual feeling about it anymore.
Why is that?
I can't bring myself to downgrade me.
See I told you, you were Smart with a capital "S" . Now back to the
story.
OK!
My wife has been through pain like you just wouldn't imagine. She
has undergone cancer surgery of the colon and beat it. She has been the
victim of two , count them, TWO VERY abusive marriages before we met. And so
very much more and all through the pain and the abuse and the physical
torture she had to endure she had one thing she could count on.
The cigarettes. Right?
Right. So you see, her story of quitting is much more impressive
than mine ever could be.
Go on.
It was not all that long ago when she realized who she really was.
It happened in a slighly different way than yours but the same result
happened.
What was that?
She overcame the physical body and took back control of her self.
How did you do it?
I cheated.
Now that doesn't sound very Christian of you.
Ah, but by 'cheated' I mean I had help. You see my quitting was
after a few urges from the most unusual and totally non connected sources. So
I took the hint and dropped the habit but it was then that I realized how it
had happened. Not before. With you and with my wife you both have the ability
now to see in advance that the body is not the life and that the life is the
soul and that the soul wants to be in control but the body will do everything
it can not to let it.
Like run on sentences don't ya?
Sorry, I get excited some times.
OK, so tell me this..... I want to quit smoking. HOW DO I DO IT?
First.... decide who you are.
I got that. I am me and. I am my soul. Not my physical body.
Second.... decide what your soul's desire is.
Excuse me? Soul's desire?
Yes. If your soul (the real you) desires to seek help from God say
so.
Because?
Because alone, the soul can win over the body but it will take
effort you are not able to convey without a long period of practice and you
want to quit now right?
Right. So let's say I ask God to help me then. ?!!???!
Ask is not the word. If you are your soul...
I am.
And if you want God's help....
I do.
Then give it to Him.
Give what to Him?
Give your soul to Him. Once you give your soul to Him you get His
power. His authority and His intention. You get the help you need without
asking for it. All you have to do is draw from it.
Detail that.
Decide that you (your soul , who you really are) wants to take
control and wants your physical body to stop smoking.
I have.
Decide that your soul (who you really are) is God's forever. Then
reach down deep inside of that brain of yours and let your soul speak. If you
have given it to God it will speak and it will take back the control the
physical body has had and you will quit smoking.
So then what if I get the physical urge to take a puff somewhere
down the road?
Would you be alone?
No. God would be with me.
Then talk to Him. He knows what you need before you even ask.
Together you can
overcome the physical body and beat those cigarettes.
And in the mean time does this mean I have to join a church and sing
in the choir and watch what I wear and go door to door to convert others and
act like I know something no one else does and ......
Ha! Not in the least. And don't you dare. You see what you have
learned here is that the physical body is not you. That you are your soul.
That you are the spirit within you. That anything is possible with God. That
God's word is spiritually inspiried and anyone who reads it physically is
corrupting the meaning. That all it takes to overcome physical is the spirit.
And that nothing physical can glorify God. Plus you managed to decide to
quit smoking.
Now, you come clean.
What in the world do you mean?
Where did you get all of this?
From the same place you can. The Bible.
I don't remember any of that in the Bible. Well some maybe..
But......
All you have to do to read the Bible correctly is read it in the
perspective in which it was inspiried. In the Spirit.
Who led you to find this out?
My Lord. Jesus.
Pretty good source.
I'd say so. By the way... You'll like the taste of things better...
After I quit smoking?
That too. But I meant you'll like what things really are when you
know how to taste them.
Hear we go again.
Nah...That's another story... God Bless You for listening and
happy breathing.