After fire--rain, mud, sludge.
The mud rains down in unforgiving mindless mounds, burying stones and Christmas trees.
We must pay for clearing all the oranges and planting houses in their place.
Even those who lived there said, "This is not right."
The oozing tons of earth that invaded the homes and buried cars and boats and dolls and bikes came down because there was nothing to stop it.
No people, only things, some precious, some not were caught in the deluge--but the timing--Christmas makes it that much sadder.
Our hearts go out to those now homeless from an overabundance of mud and water.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Last week--A Horoscope Told Me
I would receive a surprise visit from someone in my past. I think--two sepearate sources said something about the same thing.
This week end, 'someone from my past' notified me they were coming to this continent soon. The very next day, I went to a store 35 miles away and ran into another person from 'my past'.
There have been two occasions in my life when the horoscope information was completely relevant and precisely on the money. I guess this one makes a third.
I don't pay any attention to them--unless several of them agree.
This week end, 'someone from my past' notified me they were coming to this continent soon. The very next day, I went to a store 35 miles away and ran into another person from 'my past'.
There have been two occasions in my life when the horoscope information was completely relevant and precisely on the money. I guess this one makes a third.
I don't pay any attention to them--unless several of them agree.
Monday, November 8, 2010
A Spoonful of Sugar
Do you think that your cynicism has any effect on the ability of God and nature to continue to give us grace and beauty?
Do you think that if you deny or ignore the blessings of the seasons or of each day--that they don't really happen?
Stopping to smell the roses is not enough. Close your eyes to the the flotsam that surrounds you. Close your ears to the clatter of discordant bile that poisons your soul.
Take yourself to a solitary place--take the rose with you and inhale its words deeply. Caress its petals and allow its sensory messages stroke your stresses away.
Keep its soft touch on your fingers, its inner-light in your own eyes, take in its breath and speak with only that fragrance on your tongue.
The rest of the world will intervene, interfere, and continue to tear itself apart,
but you don't need to be a part of it or take part in the process.
Hold to the image of the rose. It is rooted. It gives beauty and delight. Only when handled carelessly by ignorant or brutish hands does it defend itself with God-given spikes. Teaching the way to touch...a rose.
Do you think that if you deny or ignore the blessings of the seasons or of each day--that they don't really happen?
Stopping to smell the roses is not enough. Close your eyes to the the flotsam that surrounds you. Close your ears to the clatter of discordant bile that poisons your soul.
Take yourself to a solitary place--take the rose with you and inhale its words deeply. Caress its petals and allow its sensory messages stroke your stresses away.
Keep its soft touch on your fingers, its inner-light in your own eyes, take in its breath and speak with only that fragrance on your tongue.
The rest of the world will intervene, interfere, and continue to tear itself apart,
but you don't need to be a part of it or take part in the process.
Hold to the image of the rose. It is rooted. It gives beauty and delight. Only when handled carelessly by ignorant or brutish hands does it defend itself with God-given spikes. Teaching the way to touch...a rose.
Friday, October 22, 2010
It Won't Be Long Now...
Given the distance between the two extremes (name one there are plenty of them)--
The process and struggle to return to balance or continue rushing on to the other end, will begin to show progress.
These patterns are destined to change. Mankind is reaching a stage of maturity that will bring a paradigm shift in behavior. No longer will there be 'lines drawn in the sand'. No longer will the solution come when the loudest, meanest, richest, most unethical enactments be named the 'winner'. This is not to concede to them now.
This is to give hope to those who believe there is no recourse to defeat them.
Discourse, civil, level-headed, and courteous with no motivation to degrade, defame, or spread untrue rumors will return. The voice of reason will arise. That voice will quell the fires of hatred with elements of truth that cannot be denied or disproved.
That voice will speak with confidence, logic, and inspire the listener to turn away from negative, devisive speech and action to seek out and illumine their minds with truth.
Looking for qualities within their coharts and developing their own to become the spiritual being they were put in this world to become, will be the means to improve society.
I pray I get to see these developments before I leave this world.
The process and struggle to return to balance or continue rushing on to the other end, will begin to show progress.
These patterns are destined to change. Mankind is reaching a stage of maturity that will bring a paradigm shift in behavior. No longer will there be 'lines drawn in the sand'. No longer will the solution come when the loudest, meanest, richest, most unethical enactments be named the 'winner'. This is not to concede to them now.
This is to give hope to those who believe there is no recourse to defeat them.
Discourse, civil, level-headed, and courteous with no motivation to degrade, defame, or spread untrue rumors will return. The voice of reason will arise. That voice will quell the fires of hatred with elements of truth that cannot be denied or disproved.
That voice will speak with confidence, logic, and inspire the listener to turn away from negative, devisive speech and action to seek out and illumine their minds with truth.
Looking for qualities within their coharts and developing their own to become the spiritual being they were put in this world to become, will be the means to improve society.
I pray I get to see these developments before I leave this world.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Time, Patience, Reason, Reflective Listening
Why do people think you can turn a battleship around in a stream over night>?
HUH? What the heck is she talking about?
You can't solve these massive problems of economics, health care, a crumbling educational system quickly--at least not without full cooperation from a majority of a population and or their legislators.
If that population and the legislators are working against any and all attempts to fix or even discover the source of the problems--nothing can or will be done...but the problems will not go away.
Only the understanding that a Government of a country with 400million compatriots
needs TIME to repair any part of a system that is not functioning.
People who are not willing to share--anything--or who have become knee jerk in their opposition to any new ideas or who have narrowed their thinking to following whoever complains the loudest--are part of the problem.
Listening to each other--not the so-called pundits--really listening by repeating to ourself the words that create a knee jerk response--in a small sense they then become our own--giving a bit of credence to those words and offering our opposing view with rational, inside voices.
That's all for now...I'm not feeling well.
HUH? What the heck is she talking about?
You can't solve these massive problems of economics, health care, a crumbling educational system quickly--at least not without full cooperation from a majority of a population and or their legislators.
If that population and the legislators are working against any and all attempts to fix or even discover the source of the problems--nothing can or will be done...but the problems will not go away.
Only the understanding that a Government of a country with 400million compatriots
needs TIME to repair any part of a system that is not functioning.
People who are not willing to share--anything--or who have become knee jerk in their opposition to any new ideas or who have narrowed their thinking to following whoever complains the loudest--are part of the problem.
Listening to each other--not the so-called pundits--really listening by repeating to ourself the words that create a knee jerk response--in a small sense they then become our own--giving a bit of credence to those words and offering our opposing view with rational, inside voices.
That's all for now...I'm not feeling well.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Loving God, Believing in Him, Praising Him is not a competition
Love for God and His Words is possible in many languages and every heart is capable of it. He answers to any name and cares for any and all non-beleivers. His creation of this universe and all that is therein- visible and invisible is simply a manifestion of His love for His creation. None would exist without His Creative Word.
This existence came into being when he commanded that existance to "B E".
We need all our cognitive, rational, and extra-sensory endowments to begin to fathom the how and why of it all.
These concepts are open and available to all who have eyes to see - read, understand and know that the love of God to His creation is universal throughout time and is not limited, nor is His Being limited, nor can His Being be contained in any form. Yet, He wishes to be known by His creation. The only place of knowing and the only place He can be known is in the human heart. But, He cannot take His place within it.
The door must be opened by the owner. He must be welcomed to His place by the possessor of the heart. The mystery of this relationship is that He gave us a heart with room for Him, but He CANNOT enter without our permission. He can choose to make Himself known to any of us as He Wills, but we must choose to accept or deny His
offer.
Those of us who deliberately search Him out and confidently believe with all our hearts and souls in His All-Loving embrace, realize that Love is available to all who seek it, need it, request it, and accept it. Many names are given to it--but it is not limited by any name or by any concept placed on it by man's limited understanding.
This existence came into being when he commanded that existance to "B E".
We need all our cognitive, rational, and extra-sensory endowments to begin to fathom the how and why of it all.
These concepts are open and available to all who have eyes to see - read, understand and know that the love of God to His creation is universal throughout time and is not limited, nor is His Being limited, nor can His Being be contained in any form. Yet, He wishes to be known by His creation. The only place of knowing and the only place He can be known is in the human heart. But, He cannot take His place within it.
The door must be opened by the owner. He must be welcomed to His place by the possessor of the heart. The mystery of this relationship is that He gave us a heart with room for Him, but He CANNOT enter without our permission. He can choose to make Himself known to any of us as He Wills, but we must choose to accept or deny His
offer.
Those of us who deliberately search Him out and confidently believe with all our hearts and souls in His All-Loving embrace, realize that Love is available to all who seek it, need it, request it, and accept it. Many names are given to it--but it is not limited by any name or by any concept placed on it by man's limited understanding.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Spiritiual Starvation
Playing Russian Roulette with my soul is a game I have played all my life. Many times I have lost. Tests have come that I was not prepared for and they swept me away. Instead of becoming stronger as a result of these tests--it was more like--I was put back to square one and had to start all over again, relearning and regaining any progress I had made.
The game is played by being fully aware of spiritual duties that keep one connected and nourished on a daily basis, simply, say a brief obligatory prayer once a day. How hard is that? We rebellious ones or undisciplined ones, don't do it even when we actually rememeber we are supposed to!
Time goes on as the soul languishes, longing for its spiritual nutrients. The lower self withholds this source of love from the spiritual aspect for God knows why..but sooner or later the test comes that could have been beneficial from the start and the malnourished soul lands in St James Infirmary begging for hope and forgiveness.
It is a mystery to me why this ridiculous pattern continues. The solution is so simple, the purpose so clearly stated, the need so vital and yet--every day that the soul is not fed, gives the lower self that much more power over the higher self.
God help us...me
Please!
The game is played by being fully aware of spiritual duties that keep one connected and nourished on a daily basis, simply, say a brief obligatory prayer once a day. How hard is that? We rebellious ones or undisciplined ones, don't do it even when we actually rememeber we are supposed to!
Time goes on as the soul languishes, longing for its spiritual nutrients. The lower self withholds this source of love from the spiritual aspect for God knows why..but sooner or later the test comes that could have been beneficial from the start and the malnourished soul lands in St James Infirmary begging for hope and forgiveness.
It is a mystery to me why this ridiculous pattern continues. The solution is so simple, the purpose so clearly stated, the need so vital and yet--every day that the soul is not fed, gives the lower self that much more power over the higher self.
God help us...me
Please!
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