AND WE ARE STILL HERE

I just got back from the chicken coop. I let my chickens out and broke the ice on their water. It has been cold enough to put a skim of ice on the chicken water so I don't like to wait too long to visit them in the Morning. Normally, the water won't freeze until it gets below zero F; but once it has frozen and some ice builds up on the side of the vessel, the ice will skim the top when it gets down to the single digits. The water froze when it got below zero Tuesday night; it was just lightly skimmed with ice then, but it has frozen deeper every Morning since, even though the temperature was higher. I will give them fresh water tomorrow Morning. I use a rubber tub that holds about six gallons. It was 6 degrees F when I went to bed, it is 16 now, almost balmy.

I hope everyone is looking upon the New Year with optimism. We have witnessed a lot of darkness in the last few years. Those who have been tuned into looking for the light saw much to be hopeful about in 2014, but it took some effort to ignore the darkness that was reported all around us.

We are still here and we are holding our light high. We know we are over the hump and the dark is receding. It is time for us, who have been thinking in terms of a battle between light and dark, to change the way of seeing it. Despite what is reported in the media, the battle is over, the dark has all but relinquished its hold.

There is no battle to be fought. It is time to accept the love that surrounds us and the loving beings we are. Each one of us can shed our armor and lay down our weapons. Accept love. Accept Oneness. We don't need to defend ourselves against the dark and especially each other. We have been trained to see darkness in each other and defend against it. That has been a major error promoted by those who would control. The struggle is over. Again, I say, let us lay down our weapons [defensiveness].

Judgement, based on fear of our personal safety, has been the major device of the controllers. Our egos, which are very enamored of fear, cooperated in the madness. Know it is over. It is now our job to move out of those low vibrations. We start with our own being. We realize the battle is over. We no longer need to fight. We need to give up those judgements, thoughts, and feelings that kept us in the fight.

We need to start with ourselves. We need to remind ourselves, several times a day, that we are loving beings. We need to have no thoughts or feelings that are not a response to love. Anything that is not love belongs to the illusion of separateness, it does not belong to the reality of Oneness.

Our biggest struggle seems to be giving up judgement. We have been automatically programmed to judge and reinforce separateness. We make judgements and have an emotional reaction without even being aware that it is happening. Most of these judgements are just little minor things and we don't realize we are building up a barrier, even if its slight, from knowing another person. As we commit ourselves to the light, we become more aware of these judgements and can relinquish them.

Remember that old adage, the basic idea is that we find fault in others, according to the fear, we may have that attribute in ourselves. It is said many ways and has been repeated in every spiritual tradition. It is a wonderful teaching device and it is much resisted. How can it be that the behavior of so and so down the street, that we find so obnoxious, is a reflection of something in us? How can it be that, that annoying trait of a family member, has anything to do with us? We certainly aren't that annoying. Can it simply be true, that we judge others for what we judge in ourselves?

I have have been seeing lately how I out-picture my self judgements on others. It is scary, it is humbling but it is also wonderful. It shows what I need to shine light on, in myself. It demonstrates, what I may have to forgive in myself, and open myself to the Love from Source, of which, I have been depriving myself. Try it you will like it.

We are one.

Love and Peace,  Gregg