INNOCENCE

Jamie is on a sure, slow healing course, everyday there is progress. The recliner we bought works out very well. She sleeps in it at night as well as lounging in the day. It will be a awhile before she can get out of a bed comfortably. She is really healthy and all is fine, but the surgery was extensive so the repair that was made will take time to heal. She gets up on her feet and can do quite a few things before needing to sit down again. She accompanies me to town and goes into the stores, so she is on the mend.

We bought 50 chickens in June. 25 for the freezer [broilers] and 25 replacement hens [egg layers]. The broilers are already big enough to butcher and they are getting to be a little bit of a nuisance. They are up on the deck and the gazebo and into the flower gardens. Our gardens are designed to be immune from most chicken ravages, but not completely. The chickens are getting to the age where they can scratch rather vigorously. In a week or so, Jamie will be able to help with the process and we will get the broilers in the freezer. I send them to chicken heaven and pluck them and clean them and Jamie does the fine plucking and prepares then for the freezer.

I have been paying attention to myself moment to moment. Keeping tuned in to how I am experiencing the world and myself in it. Many years ago, I accepted the idea that everyone is innocent. Nobody gets up in the Morning and says I am going to be a bad ass today. People who are chronic jerks are caught up in a drama that causes them to see the world that way. They have given up the idea that anybody could love them and they see the world as a collection of users. If they substitute money and power for the love they can't experience, they become dangerous to the rest of us. But they are still innocent, as they are trapped into their view of reality. 

How about us everyday folks. If we wake up with a little irritation, we can torture the folks at home, just like those, we think of as monsters, do it on the world stage. Less consequences, a smaller stage, perhaps, but the same dynamic. It appears to the people around us that we are critical of them; but no, we are critical of ourselves{sure we are judging them and everything else-but we are attacking ourselves first}. We are unhappy with ourselves and we out picture it to the world. It is very simple. We have temporarily lost our sense of innocence. Knowing our innocence is knowing our lovableness. When we forget our lovableness; how can we believe anybody loves us? That is depressing and irritating.

When we wake up in the Morning [or any other time] and feel that irritation it is because we are not loving ourselves. If we look. Really look. Sit down look before we open our mouth and make an ass of ourselves. Just how are we judging ourselves? We can ask our unconscious mind, our guides, the Source, or whatever we are comfortable with. Help is available. We will see the the idiocy of our judgement and regain our innocence.

We have been carefully trained to judge ourselves. All of our social systems, in some degree, encouraged self judgement as a control measure. We were not taught we are innocent.

Now is the time to reclaim our innocence. We are part of Source. We are perfect beings of light. All judgement is ridiculous. In fact it is impossible. Judgement is an artifact of the dark. It is part of the world we are leaving behind.

Leave the past behind. We all acted like jerks before. It doesn't matter. We wouldn't do it again given a conscious choice. The more we are able to forgive ourselves, the more we are able to forgive others. We can only love others to the degree we love ourselves.

Let us reclaim our innocence. See the innocence in each other. See a forgiven world!

Happy Friday.

Love and Peace,  Gregg