{"id":26953,"date":"2025-03-07T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/?p=26953"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:51:37","slug":"a-personal-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/2025\/03\/07\/a-personal-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many religions, &#8220;reckoning&#8221; or &#8220;day of reckoning&#8221; refers to the Last Judgment, a time when individuals are judged for their actions and deeds in life. <\/p>\n<p>I am at odds with this as my newly formed belief gives me a God that creates all for everything yet creates nothing for me. Prayers are not answered as there is no one to pray to in a traditional sense. My prayers are in the form of gratitude. Gratitude for all bestows want for naught.<\/p>\n<p>God is the all powerful constant state of creativity. A creativity that is neither good nor bad. Positive nor negative. Living or dying. There is no difference between good and evil as they are simply constructs of a conscious mind.  The one thing that I have come to understand as an  actor is that characters do not hate themselves. Even a sadistic, bestial, necrophiliac has things about themselves that they love and therefore do not see themselves as bad or evil. I see the magnificence of conscious thought as much as its insignificance in the expanse of all that is. <\/p>\n<p>As my sense of connection to all that is strengthens, I become aware of how my life has had an impact on others. Some \u201cpositive\u201d and some \u201cnegative\u201d depending on how they view their place in their world and I can&#8217;t deny that some felt pain as a result of a disruption in my creative connection. For that I am sorry. <\/p>\n<p>Today is my day of reckoning. Not because I want to enter some fabled after life but because I have but this moment to create beauty as I see it. I am an artist creating a life. I am one with Creativity.  One with God. I will endeavour to be as true to myself as I am true to all. Here in Heaven.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-shareaholic-thumbnail wp-image-26954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-640x359.jpg 640w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-1200x514.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-528x297.jpg 528w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-860x484.jpg 860w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God-40x40.jpg 40w, https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Creativity-is-my-God.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many religions, &#8220;reckoning&#8221; or &#8220;day of reckoning&#8221; refers to the Last Judgment, a time when individuals are judged for their actions and deeds in life. I am at odds with this as my newly formed belief gives me a God that creates all for everything yet creates nothing for me. Prayers are not answered <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/2025\/03\/07\/a-personal-reckoning\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26956,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953\/revisions\/26956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyrukes.ca\/greenroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}