Cowboy Canons of Love

 

 
The Cowboy Canons of Love are seventy insights about life, love and truth. I wrote these insights based on observations during some of the most difficult truth seeking times in my life. These insights are actually modern proverbs inspired by the good fight which may or may not be useful to you at this time.

T. G. Johnson



1) No matter where you go, there you are.

2) Sex is a lot like dancing. Sex can even be healing, but Love is not sex.

3) Don't panic, you're not alone. Remember always you're in a family.

4) Right will best wrong. Good will triumph over evil. Faith is being a realist.

5) When a soul emerges, it takes time to adjust. It takes time to unwind the mind. Give yourself time to heal. It takes time for the stomach to catch up to the mind. It takes time for the mind to catch up with the soul. Growth is a process.

6) Prolonged guilt is unnatural and harmful. Seek to live each day honestly and without regret. Blaming others for your own faults is senseless. Take personal responsibility for your mistakes...the vindication of Love is forgiveness.

7) Time, space, distance and other worldly perceptions mean little in eternity. Such concepts are only used as points of reference for navigating the maze.

8) The second coming of Christ actually happens within you.

9) Reborn angels experience memory loss in this world. You're not allowed to remember who and what you were before. Growth in Love is your challenge!

10) The ruler of the world is evil and a measure of ignorance for past millennia.

11) Faith is powerful. Perception is fuel for belief. Belief is your transportation. The choice of the beliefs you empower reflect your level of faith in truth.

12) Worldly socialization and misteachings seek to destroy spiritual perceptions, and discourage you from seeking the way of truth. Reeducating yourself and being open unto real spiritual truth is a most important aspect of the challenge.

13) Truth is constant. Solid like a rock. Deceptions sway in the wind like a reed. Evil will entice you to doubt truth and to doubt yourself. Do not be as a reed. Evil is not able to withstand truth. Stand on the rock and seek not to doubt yourself. Should your self-confidence falter, turn to what is doubtless for help. God.

14) Be careful what you wish for because you shall find what you seek.

15) Evil can't physically hurt you. But illusions can cause you to hurt yourself.

16) You can't change others. You can't force them to make sane choices. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Seek to reveal the water.

17) Old adages can often provide you a great deal of insight.

18) Don't worry about trying to properly allocate your love if you find yourself questioning the love you are giving. Giving love is a natural aspect of your soul. Giving love to others is never wrong. However, giving openly of your love does not mean being a whore for Love. Wear the badge of wisdom.

19) Anger often comes from guilt and judgment. Anger is not an evil thing until it leads to hate. As much is our capacity to love one another, so is our capacity for anger. Never confuse anger with hatred, for this is as day is unto night.

20) The light of your soul attracts many things. Lost souls in need of Love and those things which despise Love will both be as moths to flame. We are lovers and fighters. For all things there is a season. Embrace the Golden Rule.

21) To fear God is to despise evil. This awareness is your initiation into wisdom.

22) A patient and humble attitude is essential for endurance along the way.

23) Truth is fundamental and does not battle itself. Our inability to immediately grasp the whole of Truth can be confusing and frustrating. Blaming God for your ineptitude to immediately understand the whole is immature. Truth is a process.

24) We're born with a void which must be filled by Love. We can't fill the void ourselves, but we must first help ourselves before God helps us. This is the way.

25) Trust in God is the badge of wisdom. Like learning truth, this is a process.

26) As your soul opens, others seem to hear your inner thoughts or you theirs. This tends to happen quickly. Love does not hide and neither should you. The communication of sharing is a privilege, but can be a burden if you allow. The anxieties of being open will fade in time. We all have faults and strengths, so deal with it. You're not wrong for being open, the world is wrong in persecuting you for it. Your persistent struggles in seeking to be open will encourage others.

27) Prayer is your communication conduit with God. Don't underestimate prayer.

28) Humanity created religion and many worship religious books, claiming them to be holy. Book worship has come to replace a relationship with God. Seek to understand that only God is holy and religious books are only tools. God is a living being, religious books are not. While religious books are important tools, they have a place and a perspective. You were created for companionship. Memorizing religious books will not provide you salvation or soulful rebirth.

29) Worldly understanding of opposites and balance in relationship to good and evil were created by ignorant, lost souls. The Yin-Yang theory is pure nonsense, as it grants as much power to evil as it does to good. In reality, there is not found both positive and negative energy. There is only the energy of Love, and a void. Good is everything that is, whereas evil is anything that is not. The void is usually considered to maintain its own powerful energy, but the only energy evil has is that which it steals from the ignorant. This is why evil is called a thief.

30) The supernatural is nearly everywhere. You're a supernatural being living in a natural body. The family of Heaven are supernatural, but so are legions of evil beings which have chosen to separate from God. Fighting evil is really about taking a stand for good. Darkness divides itself from the Light. Even though evil appears powerful, it has no energy source except what it steals from children.

31) There is not a comprehensive handbook which will guide you through the maze. Religious books are important tools, but there are many tools. Every individual has varying experiences - even if shared among many people. Perspective is always helpful, but by its own nature is varied, whereas truth is a constant. Seeds fall where they will. In reality, you shall reap what you sow. If you sow seeds of passionate endurance, you shall humbly discover truth. Once you have embraced truth, the path of salvation unfurls itself in eternal offering.

32) Fear is unhealthy and does not promote growth There is no fear in Love.

33) The world will hate you. One of your biggest challenges is not to allow the world to frighten you into dimming your light. The closed despise the open. The world is a bully, but no harm will come to you when seeking guidance from Love towards truth and the destiny you chose to fulfill. The hand of God is invisible and perfectly directs danger away from you. Always wear the badge of wisdom.

34) God will nurture your wounds. God gently wipes the tears from our eyes.

35) Music is a powerful tool. Light music promotes healing. Dark music promotes death. The music surrounding you is about much more than you suspect.

36) For growth you need a clean slate. No grudges. No guilt. No prejudice. If you're not willing to share with all people in Love equally, you're not willing to share with any - for in seeking the truth of Love, you must give openly. This does not mean to be a whore for love. The Golden Rule works in all directions.

37) We are each equals unto Love in many respects. There's not a strict hierarchy in Love, but there are varying degrees of our relationships with Love. With truth. Don't confuse this with favoritism. Celebrate the joy of the journey.

38) The illusions of this world are symptoms of fear and wickedness. Those who incite confusion and strife are nothing but a frightened and atrocious brood. They will reap what they sow. Show them our real strength. Forgiveness. It's not your place to judge on God's throne. The applications of truth are diverse.

39) Fear is a mind-killer and a soul draining thing to possess for any length of time. Love is the antidote to fear. Prayer and endurance are applications.

40) Some lights are very old. Some are young. Chronological age is irrelevant. Remember the Golden Rule because we are each students and teachers.

41) Love is harmonious and truth is constant. If a clash occurs with others in your special family, an illusion can always be found - perhaps theirs, perhaps yours.

42) The illusions of evil appear very powerful if we believe its power can rival God. In reality, there's nothing which can rival God. Our empowering belief, either consciously or subconsciously, can misdirect our own soul energy to empower supernatural evil. This is why awareness is part of spiritual rebirth. Belief is a powerful mechanism and is continually supplied spiritual energy by the power of your soul. Misdirected belief allows evil to steal energy from you.

43) Trust requires time and is born from your endurance, patience and devotion.

44) God created light. God divided light from darkness. Light is understanding.

45) If you experience harassment, supernatural or otherwise, this a very typical response from the Universe to your embracing the light. Darkness despises light. Pray for help during your spurts of growth, for those are difficult times even for the best of us. Pretending things are not happening around you is not logical or truthful. Pray for God to mold you. Pray for courage. Pray for direction. Pray for insight. Help will be sent when you need it. Help is abundant. Be weary as evil usually offers deceptions disguised as divine help. This is why you must know the difference between good and evil. Strive to wear the badge of wisdom.

46) Life is a journey, not a destination. In the initial stages of growth, you may even perceive God as a threat. This is a typical response because when we discover the universe is a rough place, and evil often pretends to be God, we rebel and try to stand alone. Learning about the Badge of Wisdom takes time.

47) If you take the plunge and try to stand alone, remember you may have more support and protection from God than you realize. Do not expect people to fully understand your experiences. Even your closest friends and family might reject you. In learning to fly, you must be nudged out of your nest to learn the values of Love, Forgiveness, Faith, Trust, Hope, Devotion, and Compassion which give way to acquiring understanding towards Truth. As you learn to fly, those people who rejected you may reappear in your life, or they may not. Such is growth.

48) Salvation is a major leap of realization. Finding hidden manna requires searching for truth, whatever you may find; not simply searching for a fast way to feed the hunger within your soul. We each experience salvation differently because we're each different - ironically, we will reach the same foundations in truth. Realizing God's living guidance in this world can be shocking. Try to find comfort in knowing the plan is perfect, comprehensive, gentle and persistent.

49) Rebirth comes quickly. It's a dynamic process. Your stages of realization will gradually become more clear with each passing day. Fear, panic, isolation, abandonment and the questioning of your sanity is a part of your development - because in order to receive what is, you must learn to let go of what is not. Sometimes this requires from you utter, complete blind faith. Other times this requires you putting into action the tools you have learned. Growing enough to reject the insanity of this world is an important aspect of rebirth. In order to heal ourselves of unhealthy perceptions, we must find conviction and self-esteem to shun worldly notions because the world itself is spiritually insane - as you will discover when you begin seeing the world is actually upside-down. The weak truly do confound the strong - and you will discover those often considered wise in this world are ignorant fools. Courage is required to stand against insanity.

50) As Love emerges within you, a passionate desire also emerges to help your brothers and sisters towards the enlightenment you've found - this is the way. Do not allow your childlike enthusiasm to blind you with vanity. Realize you may have learned a lot, but there remains and will remain much more to learn.

51) To learn what is truly valuable, we're required to often cast aside our worldly possessions. Real wealth has nothing to do with riches. This act of sacrifice can teach us real value. Proverbially, we can't serve two masters. Those whom pray for financial aid are misdirected. Religions which continually ask for money are blind and wretched. God gave you the tools of mind and body - use them.

52) Love is perfect and without division. Loving your brothers and sisters will lead you to love and develop a relationship with God. Conversely, honestly loving God will lead to you to love your brothers and sisters. Love is unified in the family of God. But you should not expect God to love truly wicked people, those who have utterly rejected truth. God is righteous. Love is not a whore.

53) Life is a school. We're students. Righteous provisions are abundant, but so are misteaching and misunderstanding. Choice is your personal responsibility. When the surge of growth begins, you may feel these tools are meant only for you. Remember to notice there are other students in the classroom. No single tool contains all the answers you seek, thus don't become angry when you find faults in the many sources of misinformation in this world. Much worldly insight is misleading for it was created by the lost. Embrace helpful materials carefully and wisely seek to discount illicit materials for what they are - distorted ideas. Diligence and devotion are required elements for you to sort right from wrong. Courage and conviction are required for you to distinguish good from evil.

54) Forgiveness is a most important lesson we must learn. Forgiveness fosters the development within our souls of the seven spirits of Love. Forgiveness was the first brick laid for the foundation of the only real path for Life...the way.

55) God uses both evolution and creationism to create all things. The separation of these theories into opposing sides is ignorant. They are both right. Fighting for one or the other generates only misunderstanding and useless strife. Neither definition of Life is separately correct - together they are both wholly correct.

56) Sin is an action to ourselves or others which is damaging or harmful. God loves you beyond comprehension and does not want you to hurt yourself or another. This is why sin is offensive to God. To judge another person's sin is to judge yourself. To condemn another is to condemn yourself. You have no right to try and divinely judge others. Our privilege is to openly welcome others with unconditional love and forgiveness. Realize beyond doubt you can not change a sinner, nor are you ever qualified to judge sin. Love changes all things chosen. Seeking to judge a person as a sinner is placing yourself on the throne of God.

57) Religion has used money, power, guilt and moral mandates to build a very social foundation of political control over the masses. Christ claimed love, forgiveness, hope, faith and truth to build His foundation. God is not religious. Religion tends to place a barrier between you and God. While you may find camaraderie and good works in religion, these do not provide you salvation.

58) Immortality is not given, but earned. Better yet, realized with effort.

59) Christ is the son of God. The Apostles did not possess the authority of God. While many revere the Apostles as absolute authorities, they were imperfect men who strove diligently to provide their personal perspectives. The teachings of the Apostles are revered wrongly as the exclusive teachings of God. The bible is a book of varying perspectives about good and evil. The bible is not God and was written by the hand of man. The man called Paul, who never even knew Christ, is a perfect example of how people have become wrongly regarded as your teacher by religion. Let those who can seek this understanding do so.

60) Spiritual rebirth is delivered only by God through your efforts of seeking for truth and is not found within rituals or proclamations.

61) Upon rebirth, your identity will be in question. You are a child of God. You are not Jesus Christ, nor are you a mysterious character found in a religious book. You are who you are. When the second coming happens within you, then you will be more of who you are, still you remain yourself and a child of God.

62) The unfolding and rebirth of your soul is a natural process which does not require extensive study in religion or theology - but does require endurance and patience in seeking for truth. You must make choices to receive that which is prepared for you, and you must be willing to relearn that which was wrongly learned. This requires humbleness and trust in God. Those with credentials in theology who claim to know everything about God actually know very little. God teaches if we seek to be taught. God provides answers to our questions - yet our eyes must be open to see, and our ears open to hear. Your privilege is to receive the understanding God abundantly provides and this will not be found in a book or a church, but within you. For within you is the Kingdom of God. The first steps across this bridge are very difficult, but remember you are not walking alone.

63) If you try to take God out of the equation, you will loose the foundation.

64) Revelations are a personal experience, yet often shared with many others. Spiritual battles are just that, spiritual. They are fought in a supernatural sense with weapons of war thought only to be concepts in the physical reality. Being a soldier in the good fight means with endurance you stand and shine your light. This requires you to know basic differences between good and evil. This also requires you to find courage and conviction for the positive and not to bend.

65) Societal interpretations of religious books change dramatically over time. For example, in Christianity the son of God and savior unto man known as Jesus Christ who is our brother, has now become God, Himself, according to religious interpretations of the modern day. Those whom incite arguments of details over religious books are foolish because they do not understand the way nor do they understand truth - they only understand socially acceptable interpretation of a book. Arguing with these people will only serve frustration. Do not seek to argue with religious book worshippers, for it serves no fruitful purpose. Instead reveal your insight through your own examples and allow God to work in their lives.

66) Objects hold absolutely no power in any sense. Both religious and pagan idols are likewise powerless, for they are likewise objects.

67) You are a child unto God. Regardless of spiritual knowledge or power you feel you have obtained, you are nevertheless a child in need of growth.

68) Only by separating yourself from your false need to be accepted by society will your journey towards the Kingdom of God begin. You can't be reborn if you're not willing to leave social acceptance behind. The world hates Light. However, you must make a place for yourself and your light within the world.

68) The world is full of meaningless illusions and games. You must put away games, but not your sense of humor, if you intend to seek understanding.

69) The body is your altar unto God. The mind your temple. Treat them as such.

70) Upon rebirth, you'll begin to know the Holy Spirit and comprehend how the supernatural can assist you in your new life. The Holy Spirit is your helper and spiritual companion which comes from God to help you seek truth. There exist many supernatural entities, both good and evil. Realize angels and demons exist, as well as a host of other things, but do not fear. Seek to test all things and embrace the truth there is nothing more powerful than God. God is absolute. The advice to test all things is literal, for you have no point of real supernatural reference in this world. Be weary of all things - even things claiming to be God.


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