UPS AND DOWNS

So far we have had a beautiful October and the forecast looks good for the rest of the month. We haven't finished working on the new chicken coop and potatoes still need digging. Hopefully, we will get our Fall chores done before inclement weather sets in.

Generalities are generalities and often they belie specifics. When I was talking about The Church in Wednesday's blog, I believe my comments to be accurate, concerning the overall impact, in the last two thousand years. This, of course, is for the church as an institutional entity. There has always been, and are now, priest/ministers and congregations who try to break out of the negative controlling mode and teach only love as the truth. There are great things these groups do; many are dedicated towards bringing peace and love to the world.

However, the old model of religion most pass. Any idea that one group has the truth, and one must join them to be saved, must be over. We need to give up all our ideas that cause divisiveness. We must embrace Oneness. We must see all humanity as One. We can experience the truth of this at an individual level. We will realize that, what we do to any other, we do to ourselves. It is obvious right now in our personal life.

As individuals, and as a world community, we can't escape the awareness that every thought and deed affects everyone.

We have our ups and downs. We have periods of hope where things seem to be getting better and then our hopes are dashed, by some idiocy, whether it be in our personal life, or on the world stage.

We are not getting any help from the main stream media, in seeing that things are getting better. Sometimes we have only faith to hang on to. We do need help in getting through the ups and downs of life. It helps greatly to find time, at least twice a day, to meditate or find that quiet place inside, however we do it.

While we are in that quiet place, we get a glimpse of Oneness. Our egos are suspended; we can experience the peace from where all good comes from.

As long as our egos have a major influence on our lives, we will be vulnerable, to reacting inappropriately, to a threat from another. In our intimate and family relationships, this will continue until we can see when our ego light comes on and realize we can't see correctly. We will learn to cease our reacting.

There will be turmoil in our personal lives and on the world stage for a little while to come. Let us not lose hope. The Earth is being inundated with Love. Let us sit and find our quiet place. Let us bathe ourselves in Love. Our guides and our teachers are here. They are eager to help. Let us open ourselves to the help that is here.

Love and Peace,  Gregg