We want peace. We want love. We want joy. And we want them all the time. Until we raise out of this particular level of evolution, we won't have them all the time. We can have them most of the time. All the time is in the near future.
What can we do now? We can be love. We can be joy. We can be peace. Some of us will protest, "That's too hard. We can't do that." Okay, you have tried and failed. You have gotten discouraged. It happens to all of us. Get up and try again. We are here to grow. We know the direction we want to go. Keep plugging away.
We won't see the love that surrounds us if we don't realize the love we are. Let us look at it from a different perspective. Know that we are already; love, peace and joy. Over thousands of years we developed this film of negativity around us, which is ruled by our egos. It is only a wisp, an illusion.
We can break through the illusion easily. It doesn't seem easy at times. There is quite a bit of resistance in this shell that surrounds us. Like any thing else that we learn for the first time; driving a car, playing bridge, playing football, dancing etc. Part of learning is natural other parts are difficult. Sometimes it is formidable. We know we can do it! So we keep trying.
Growing spiritually is a new adventure. We have spent so much time in various levels of negativity that it is hard to believe we can be what we want. Let us convince ourselves we are there already. Our vision is only obscured by a veil of ego. As we practice being what we want, the veil becomes thinner. Each time we fail and are disappointed in our behavior, we have made the veil thinner. It doesn't matter how big a jerk we are or how ferocious the argument with our spouse; we have thinned the veil a little more. We can't go backward. We only go forward.
Our intent is important. If we intend to reflect love, we will grow in that direction no matter what many times we fail. We can only fall off that bicycle so many times before we learn to ride. Soon it becomes second nature. Knowing love, is so reinforcing, that once over the hump we learn very quickly. And it will seem as easy as riding a bike.
Let's keep our vision on a world of Love, Joy and Peace. It shall be ours.
In the meantime, back at laughing Water Farm, we have about completed our Fall chores. If we got three foot of snow tomorrow, we would be ready. We got the pullets we bought this spring in with the flock, day before yesterday. It will take them a few days to get acclimated to their new surroundings. It will take at least three days before I can chance letting them out. I don't want to gather roosting chickens from all over the farm every night. We have a bushel plus apples to process. They are great eating apples, but we are not eating them very fast. I don't have a good place to store them. A root cellar has always been on our wish list.
We took a year off from intensive gardening. We are looking forward to next year. We had tomatoes, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, cabbages, radishes, lettuce and a few other things. Our beans and peas did not do well and we lost some potatoes to the frost. We have often waited until mid November to harvest potatoes. During late Summer and Fall we dig them as we need them. This year we waited to long. We normally do not have frost that penetrates deep enough to hurt potatoes the first have of November. This year we had a few nights in the single digits. That was enough. We lost about half the crop. Hey, that is okay. That's what life on planet Earth is for, to learn and learn to love. Love everything.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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