We have made progress with our Fall chores. The last of the broilers are in the freezer. I dug up my amaryllis and gladiolas. We have potatoes left to dig and apples to pick. The weather forecast is dreary for the coming week, snow and rain. I may start picking those apples this afternoon. We have a couple bushels of Firesides on the tree. They are a wonderful eating apple and they keep for several weeks in the house. We will need to can most of them. Jamie makes apple-pie-in-a-jar. All the ingredients for an apple pie filling go in the jar and just needs to be put in a crust and baked.
Our building project is going forward after a weeks delay. They are making up for lost time. The roof trusses are already up. I am sitting right next to the construction; only a wall separates me from the carpenters and their hammers.
Do you like your life predictable? Do you take unexpected events in your stride? Is there an advantage to predictability? Sure we create our experience. But we don't know the all of it. We create what we desire to experience and that is on different levels. Before we decided to take this journey on planet Earth, we knew what experiences we needed to have for the learning we felt we needed. Some events are 'group projects'. Many relatives and friends are beings we shared many lifetimes with. We came into this life with learning contracts that involved those others.
So when we say, we create our experience with our thoughts and feelings, that is certainly true; but events may be prearranged. We agreed to them because they carried a valuable lesson, something we wanted to learn.
Some unexpected events are minor; flat tires, clogged drains, cancelled flights etc. Some are major; deaths in the family, serious accidents etc. They all have something in common. They are not the tragedies we think they are. For instance death, our pain comes from our attachment. Love is not attachment. Love is freeing. Love would understand that the loved one chose to leave. Sure as long as we are in bodies, we are going to experience attachment. No one would suggest a death in the family could ever be easy, but we will get to the point where we no longer see it as tragedy. Most families are able to celebrate the death of their aged population. In the near future we will be able to celebrate all changes.
Life is Life! We live! Death isn't real. Nothing we experience in this bodily illusion is real. It is a dream we are having. Let us not make it a nightmare. We are here to learn by experiencing. Therefore, we need to accept it as our temporary reality. But can't we be lighthearted?
Since we can't really predict what will happen from day to day, what should be our outlook? Can we greet every event with alacrity? Can we be lighthearted about everything? Can we see the funny side of the events of our lives? Who said, we had to be serious?
When we practice loving every moment and living every moment, we don't scare ourselves with a future that hasn't arrived. If we get a flat tire, we pull out our cars manual and see if we can fix it or we flag down a passing motorist. We don't scare ourselves with something that might happen. It is just another adventure to regale our friends with at our next meeting.
Life comes to us in an endless stream. Let us love it all. The more we love the lighter will be the lessons. We are here to realize we are unconditional love just like our Source. Let us learn to love now, then we won't call any more lessons to us.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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