In nearly eight decades on planet Earth, I have not experienced a more sudden onset of Winter. We have had early cold weather several times. In the early eighties it got down to -40F about this time of year. We have had many twenty below days in December. But this is the complete picture, suddenly we are transported to the middle of January.
I am talking about many little things, like the difficulty in open the barn door, the sticking of the gates. I am not sure I can describe it, but I experience little problems that normally don't occur until mid-winter.
Saturday it didn't get above zero and today it might not. We have a geothermal heat pump. It serves us well down to -10 and even -15 if it is not windy. For people who would be satisfied with a 68ish temperature it would be fine. We like it toasty. So when we have these sub-zero conditions we fire up one of the wood stoves. We have two. This is not a criticism of the geothermal system, it is great. The old part of our house is over a hundred years old. It has blown in insulation that would be stopped by any cross pieces between the studs. We didn't notice the problem when we heated with wood [over twenty years]. We kept that old house toasty all the time. When we built on in the early nineties and put in the heat pump we noticed the cold spots. Jamie has gone around figuring out how to insulate the worst of them; a few remain.
I am sitting here without the slightest idea of what to blog about. If we look for the love in the world, we see steady progress towards the new world of love. If we look for strife and violence, it looks like the old world will never end. Regardless of which is 'reality', seeing a world of love is much more pleasant. And if we all saw a world of love, wouldn't it be ours? We must know that this illusion is ours. We can make it what we want. It is a picture we paint or a movie we produce. It is ours, we need to claim it. Regardless of how we see it now, it is ours.
We split off from Source with free will and the ability to create anything. We explored separateness to the max. We made a horrible mess. We forgot Love. We experienced every kind of divisiveness, conflict and violence that separation could bring us. We made a decision that we want no more of that. We decided to search for love.
If we look at our poetry, music, philosophy and literature, we can see that we have always known love was the answer. We were not quite ready. We had more to learn from separation. We are ready now!
Love is now the driving force. The majority of our people want a loving world. The consciousness of humanity is rising swiftly.
We have a choice, moment to moment, to see love or strife [fear]. As we go through our day, let us pay attention to our minds. Are our minds loving or troubled? It only takes a moment to find mental peace. If you are troubled by an influx of troublesome thoughts, say to yourself, "all is well". Continue repeating it to yourself until you feel peaceful. Love will flood in. Each time we find peace in our mind, we bring peace to humanity. We are all together, our reality is Love.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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