Load'er up

Years ago, I took a weekend class from Jean Houston, where we studied the life of Jesus.  We reenacted several of the highlights from his life.  What I distinctly remember is after the trial of Jesus, he had to drag his cross (I doubt that it was a simple 4 x 4) to the area of his hanging.  In order to reenact it, we were to pick up our chairs and walk around the room with them on our back.  The instructions were to bend our knees, reach backwards and pick up the chair and pull it up onto our backs, straighten our knees and walk.

I am walking, walking, and walking.  Suddenly, I see a guy nearby carrying not just one but five, six or seven chairs on his back.  I was stunned with that picture and went into overwhelm with the implications of all it.

How many times do we carry the required load and stop to pick up more than is necessary?  Just to show that we can do it? Why do we think that what we do has to be hard or harder in order to succeed?  What are we trying to prove and to whom?

Since that time, I often remind myself that “easy does it, too.” I don’t have to complicate something that has an easy fix nor do I have to make something really hard in order to move forward.  And I remember not to take on someone else’s stuff in order for me to be successful, happy or whatever.

My motto is simple, fun and easy.

Ignorance Is Not Bliss.

Stunned is the only word that describes what I read in our local newspaper about a comment made on national television by one of our newly GOP Senate nominees from the state of Missouri.   Contraception and Pro-Choice have been “hot topics” by all of what I call the radical right or the left movements.  This man declared that, “legitimate rape rarely causes pregnancy.”  What!  What medical person declared that to be the truth of rape?

I am stunned that someone in his office didn’t just take a baseball bat to his head.  Where is this guy’s wife?  Doesn’t she know any better?  Or as my sister says, “That guy must not have had a mother.”

Pregnancy is not the issue.  The violence of rape is the issue and why didn’t this guy realize it.  Of course, when his fellow GOP got on his case, he issued a statement say that he misspoke.  I would say that he was miss-educated in the sex education classes in high school or his parents were remiss in clueing the guy into what was appropriate behavior. 

His running mates are quoted as saying that “the Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape.”  Why is there an opposition to abortion in the first place?

Women’s rights have not moved ahead at all, in my opinion.  Or we have regressed into the dark ages.  What is it going to take for the men to “wake up” and as my mother use to say, “fly right?”  Or maybe they don’t think they have to?  Or maybe not enough women think this is an issue we can win.  Is there anyone in the government that can dictate what I am going to do or not in this day and age?  How can they be so foolish to even think it let alone think they can legislate it?

Men, grow up.  You no longer have the power you think you have.  I pity the man whose female members of the family rise up against him.  Maybe they will have more “balls” in using the baseball bat!

Perfection Seeds

Ernest Holmes said, “This Original Life is Infinite.  It is good.  It is filled with peace.  It is of the essence of purity.  It is the ultimate of intelligence.  It is power.  It is Law.  It is Life.  It is in us.  In that inner sanctuary of our own nature, hidden perhaps from objective gaze, “nestles the seed, perfection.” 

Have you ever wondered what else you can contribute to life? I have read that God sees only the highest and best of us, so what is it that God sees in me that I don’t?  Often I have questioned whether or not I am doing what God intended for me to do and accomplish in my lifetime.  Or have I taken a giant U-turn somewhere along the line and diverted myself into something completely different.

Jean Houston tells us that we are not only talented but multi-talented.  Since I read that statement, I have been intrigued with what else or what hidden “perfect” talent I have that I am not even aware of as yet.  Since I am of a curious nature, I have explored and attempted many new endeavors and, yes, I have found that I am indeed multi-talented in many areas.  But what I really want to know, what else can I do?  What else can I learn that’s fun, interesting and will keep my attention, imagination and mind absorbed and functioning for years ahead?  What else is in the nestled perfection of who I am? 

“Our belief sets the limit to our demonstration of a Principle which, of Itself, is without limit,” Ernest Holmes goes on to tell us.  That means that I have set the limits of what I am capable of doing even if it means a whole new life for me, or greater success than I have ever dreamed of, or making more money than I ever thought I was capable of making. 

Walking through the limits I have set for myself, I am willing to see where and when I am in the resistance of moving forward.  But only I can do this, as much as I would love it if you would do it for me. 

I see this as an opportunity to see where I make my objections, what I don’t want to do, what I resist, or what I complain about.  All of this takes the place of taking positive action to move into something bigger, greater or better.  Since I know what the promise is, it seems to be it would be easier to take the action.  Put another way, now that I know what the positive results are in taking the action, this whole process is much easier. 

Making up new solutions or results or goals is really a fun way to live life.  Who wouldn’t want to be happier?  Who wouldn’t want a new adventure of possibility? 

Being willing to take the time to “see” new possibilities and set new intentions is well worth the effort it takes.  I now have affirmations all around me and I know that by seeing a new tomorrow, today becomes all that more exciting and vibrant resonant with great attainable achievements.

Join me in this great new adventure exploring and discovering the seeded possibilities within all of us.

Let's All Get Healthier

Years ago, my former husband, Bud, heard a story and the finishing line was, “How would God handle this?”  He used that line when faced with challenges, problems, dealing with customers and when he had to solve some major problems.  He placed that line on stickers and had them everywhere.  The bathroom mirror had one, the car dash, his company truck dash, one was discretely placed on the corner of my desk pad, and the refrigerator in the kitchen had one.

Later when he was experiencing his end of life challenges, I was dismayed and disappointed that I didn’t have the encouragement and support of my spiritual colleagues.  I know it is hard to find the words to comfort someone whose loved one is sick or in the transition of expelling the spirit into another dimension.  Sometimes just saying things like, “what do you need?” or “I am sorry” helps tremendously.

Right then and there, I decided that I wanted to change the line of, “How would God handle this,” to “How would an emotionally healthy person respond to something like this?”  Or even “How would a spiritually healthy person respond to something like this?”  

The experience with Bud promoted me on a quest to learn how to be healthier in all of my dealings.  I realized that I wanted to be a good example of someone who was not only supportive but who knew how to give the kudos when necessary.  It is called, “being a person of value.”  That means knowing when to uplift someone else. 

Recently, a good friend and colleague came out with a tremendous application for the iPhone and she expressed disappointment that none of the “higher ups” in our organization even spoke to her about it.  I realized that all of us are in our own stages of dysfunction and haven’t yet learned how to be emotionally or even spiritually healthy.

How sad for us to be associated with a large group of people who don’t know how to support or even congratulate someone else when they do a good deed.  How can we expect to be the best spiritual information network when we can’t even get out of ourselves long enough to pass on the information? 

Help me stop the madness!  Won’t you join with me in cheerfully telling others how wonderful they are, what a great job they did, or congratulating them on deeds done exceptionally well.  Not only does it make the other person feel good, it makes us feel great! 

A Place in the Choir

All God’s creatures got a place in the choir.  Do you know that song?  Tears streamed down my face when I heard it, because it reminded me that no matter what is going or, how lost I feel, or how hard it is to find something, I belong here.  I belong as much as the sun, moon, stars and planets.  I have a place in the choir.  I was created for greatness. 

I can sing low or high or just sit on a telephone wire and do my thing, which is whatever brings me happiness in that moment.  I am here to find ways to astonish myself, or maybe to startle myself into thinking about something new, or amaze myself with a new project, or remember how remarkable I am no matter what I do or what is going on in my life.  We all need to dazzle ourselves occasionally to remind us how fabulous life is and that there is yet more to experience.

There are times when I feel that new ideas are lost to me.  It is during those time that I need to remember that as many new songs there are or are still being written, that’s how many ideas are floating around the ethers for me to catch and use in my life.  Staying open to the exhilaration of life is all that is needed. 

You need to share in the extravaganza and the excitement of all that life has to offer so that I can remember to be more, do more and have more of all of the blessings in life.  So all of us can be more.  To be a part of the choir, go to http://worriersanonymous.org/Share/Godspeople.htm

and sing out loud like all of the creatures of the earth, remember that all of us are graced.  And so it is.