Jared GoetzZenpire · CEO & Founder at Zendrop

What is your opinion on G-d?

16 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief spoken reflection, the speaker describes his personal conception of God as a perfect father figure, likening divine presence to an idealized parental role. He explains that during prayer he often experiences moments of insight, treating prayer as a catalyst for good ideas. The speaker also outlines his unique gratitude practice: instead of celebrating successes, he imagines losing a limb or being in a severely disadvantaged state, then quickly meditating on that scenario to reinforce appreciation for everyday abilities, such as having a leg. This mental exercise helps him return to reality with a renewed sense of thankfulness.

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I think of God as my real-life dad would be if he were like perfect. When I pray, usually if I sit there and think about it long enough, there will be something that comes to me where it's like, "Oh, that's a good idea." And then also it forces me to do gratefulness, 'cause like the way I like to do gratefulness is not actually happy about where it's like, "We just hit a record month, like hell yeah." It's more like, I would literally rather be like broke, fat, but I would rather have a leg. Like I would take that leg over pretty much anything else. You instantly come out of that 'cause you can meditate on it for like 90 seconds and think about like literally your day-to-day of like if you had to get like your girl to push around in a wheelchair or something like that. Like, oh my God, like what a pain in the ass. I come back to reality, I'm like, thank God I got a leg.