Things are moving along here on Laughing Water Farm. The diggers are coming this Morning to excavate for the foundation of our addition. I expected them to be here at the crack of dawn. Perhaps, I am a little too eager.
Jamie is getting better. I am still chief cook. Yesterday, I burnt the pot roast. I didn't know that was possible. It looked like it had plenty of water and I didn't know it was burnt until I discovered it was stuck to the bottom of the dutch oven. Oh well, it tasted okay. The gravy was a little flat. It won't be long before Jamie takes on her former role; especially if I burn the food.
I am experiencing bronchitis. I am rarely ill. But in the last several years if I get a cold, it will be bronchitis. Everybody else in the family just gets a cold and I don't get much of a cold, but I do get bronchitis. Often it won't bother me all day but when I try to sleep at night; forget it.
After we have been on this planet several decades, we come to the conclusion that we are authors of our life experience. I can't escape the notion that I bring troubles, health wise or other, upon myself. In fact, when I started showing symptoms of a cold, the thought occurred to me that I was punishing myself. I had been behaving like a jerk the day before. Now source doesn't punish. Source is unconditional love. We punish ourselves. First we follow our ego into some outlandish behavior and then our ego makes sure we mete out punishment against ourselves. This is part of the old world that has to go.
Years ago I read somewhere that life is like following a beautiful flower strewn path. Everything is set up perfect. We are like children and our hands are held firmly by the hand of the universe. Although, we cannot completely lose the grip of Source; we can stretch and pull and find ourselves on the other side of the flower border. There we encounter brambles of all sorts.
When we are heart centered and follow our guidance, the path may twist and wind. We may see troubles along the way. We are safe on our path and peace, love and joy are with us.
If we follow the ego's guidance [the guidance of separation and judgement] we find ourselves in the brambles. We find ourselves believing in fear, in punishment, in sin; we doom ourselves to pain and suffering.
So! We have learned. We know better. How is it that we still can experience negativity? We have been on this planet for a long time. We have many old programs to dissolve. Many people are having old judgmental thoughts come to the surface. Judgements of themselves and others. Memories of old hurts, where we were both victim and perpetrator.
We can easily put these behind us by forgiving ourselves or the other. All that we need to do is acknowledge it. Look at the behavior and forgive. Imagine a big column of light. A beam of unconditional love. Let the beam of light shine on that old program and melt it away.
As long as we express ourselves through our ego, there is a danger of some of these old programs coming back. There is an old saying, "The devil can only do the Lord's work". We can restate this by saying, "The ego can only do our work". Built into the struggles, the ego takes you through, is learning. We will only touch that hot stove so many times. Eventually, we see the path through the brambles is not for us.
Regardless of the path you are on, it only heads in one direction, a reunion with Source. Let us learn the easy way, through guidance. Meditation will help quiet the mind and help us see the path. The path is Love. We are Love. We are naturally attracted to our correct path. Let us learn to appreciate the flowers and stay out of the brambles.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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