Autor: Gustavo Rizzo

Lord, remain always with me, never abandon me. I love You with all my heart, I want to draw nearer each day, I want to be completely Yours, I am Yours, I surrender myself to You. I yield to Your will, I am submissive to You, Lord. Guide me, instruct me, because Your wisdom is infinite before mine. Show me the way, and I will follow.

There is nothing more important than God; everything comes down to this: the supreme consciousness that created everything, that is infinite in love. Our relationship with God must be a priority, just as our relationship with our spouse is, and much more.

Today I will write in a fluid way, without thinking too much. I want to write because I do not have much to say; so, writing about that is what I can write now.

There is no creative block, but rather judgment about what should or should not be written. Even creative block becomes writing when we accept writing what comes to our mind.

Of all that I could be writing right now, I wanted to speak about God, because in that lies the true importance. I want to write always, every day. I want to dedicate my time to the Lord. I want to live a relationship with God. I want to place my focus on God, and I know that this focus will create my life, will shape my life. The more I think about God, the more I see Him present in everything. God is infinite in love, infinite in goodness, infinite in wisdom. Everything I want is in Him; there is nothing more important than Him.

I want to work for His name. I want to work for the name of Christ Jesus. I want to honor Him in all His glory, to exalt Him as He never was while He walked among us.

Lord, my God generous in love, inspire in us good words so that from our mouth only light may come forth; may this light calm, instruct, give clarity, and raise us, through reflection, to a new paradigm of living.

Each thought can be shaped to make us feel what we prefer to feel. 

How do I want to shape my inner state?

To be at peace in the present, not to desire to be in another place, with another person, in another situation, not to have worries.

The joy of gratitude: to feel gratitude for the moment, for the good things we perceive, to focus on the positive and cultivate the joy of it.

The joy of love: to look at another person as someone we love, someone for whom we have so much affection.

To have a clear focus on God, always cultivating an inner dialogue and relationship with Him. To feel loved, to feel heard, to feel understood, to feel joyful, to feel love.

I thought a great deal about the future, about the things that may happen, about the things I should do, about the things I have to do, and this somehow took me out of the present and always left me with a feeling of “when that happens,” as though I were always waiting for something, always waiting for things to happen. In the end, this creates anguish, impatience, and frustration, but, above all, it takes us out of the present.

I remember what it was like to wake up, as a child, on a Sunday, and to have no expectation, no projection, no murmuring, no worry; only to get up and sit on the sofa, for example. The mind did not wander; there was only presence, the observing of the present, of the things that were happening, of perceiving the feeling.

We can return to being like that if we cleanse our mind, trusting and surrendering the future to God, and stopping the constant creation of projections of how things will happen, and accepting that it is impossible to know and that we have only the present.

Distraction made me drift for so long. It does not seem like something harmful that affects us, but it affects us greatly; it is as though it were a ship sailing toward its destination, but soon changing direction. Today I have a focus every day, I have a constancy in my focus on God; this already creates a constant movement, but I still spend a great deal of time distracted and I know that I could go much farther if my focus remained steady.

Entertainment, distraction: it lifts our mood to a certain point. Of all our needs, the highest is that of self-fulfillment, of feeling that we have accomplished something with purpose. That is why creating is so important, whether art, music, writing, or projects in the physical world; we can create in infinite ways. We are creators and we find fulfillment when we create: we do something in pursuit of an authentic purpose that deeply touches our soul.

I love the truth, I love seeking the truth, I love knowing the truth, and I know that my ikigai would be in this area, but it goes far beyond that, because I do not want merely to create something that carries the truth, because that is already something that exists. What I truly want is to create something that is not merely about speaking truths, but about integrating these truths within us, so as to change our lives, because that is what I want to do. What is the use of knowing everything, if we live with anxiety and depression?

For that reason, I want to create something that shows my journey to develop thoughts that lift me up, that empower me, that transform my feelings and change the quality of my life forever. I want to create something that can be used by people to see that we can think differently and feel differently, and be happy in the now, regardless of anything. My prayers show this desire, and my reflections do as well.

Jesus is much more than a friend; He is the light that guides us out of darkness, He is the energy that replenishes us with the joy of living, He is the demonstration, for us humans, of the unconditional love of our infinite God. Jesus is a reminder of God, so that we may remember His power and infinite love.

With each passing day, I feel more fortunate to have You, Lord, in my life, because this kind of peace, this kind of trust, I could not find anywhere in the world, only in You. Suffering tormented me day and night, anguish devastated my heart, but, in Jesus, I finally found a peace I had never felt before; I had to make Him my priority and walk in His path of truth. Much introspection was necessary, much work on my part and on His, for my perceptions to begin to change, for my thoughts to be healed from evil, and I know that this will be an eternal activity that I will seek together with Him, in pursuit of the perfection of my spirit.

I have already spent a long time without understanding what was truly important. I sought the Lord, but I still lived in suffering; even knowing that my intention was pure, to follow the path of the Lord, I still did not understand.

Today I know that this phase was part of the path and that, throughout the journey, the Lord was preparing me to acquire the awareness of what I would need to understand in order finally to have the peace I had sought so much.

Peace was never in perfect circumstances, in physical conditions, or in the era of the world. Peace was always in You, peace was always in pure trust and total surrender to You, in recognizing Your infinite love and in knowing that there is nothing that is not possible for You; that I may leave behind all heavy thoughts, of anxiety, anguish, and worry, and rest in trust, rest in peace, rest in You.