CHANGES

I am getting a late start. I had things to do this Morning, besides my regular chores. It is almost 11:AM. Naomi is having some friends over this weekend and I need to do a few things to help get ready.

Our world is going to be different, here, on Laughing Water Farm. Noah has found a place in Ogilvie to live and Naomi has leased an apartment in St. Cloud. Noah has been with us for about a year and Naomi and Elijah have been here for about six years. Naomi starts moving on July 1st. We will continue providing some child care for Elijah.

It will be a momentous change. Jamie and I will have our house to ourselves. Their leaving is going to leave a big hole, but it will be a new beginning for us. Our retirement will continue.

The one thing we can count on in this life are changes. Sometimes we welcome them. Sometimes we resist them. They happen anyway. And the change is constant. Jamie and I were going along on a relatively predictable path for several years; just the two of us. Naomi and Elijah brought a great change in our life. There were challenges and also great blessings. The gifts, a growing child gives, are incalculable.

So Jamie and I are on the threshold of a new life experience. We could think, it would continue, like it was going, six years ago; but it will be new, it will be different, it will be what it is. It is exciting to think about.  

One thing I have discovered, and I rediscover, and rediscover, again; is that change does not have to disturb peace. Of course, this is something our mentors have been stressing for thousands of years; yet, if your like me, we need to relearn it after most life disturbances.

If we want peace, we must find it inside ourselves, then we can extend it to our environs. When we are connected to a peaceful place inside ourselves, others feel it, and they respond much differently, than if we were frazzled. When we are peaceful, we see the whole world differently.

I, sometimes, forget to seek peace. It is easy to blame the lack of peace on what is going on around us. And things can be so chaotic, that peace eludes all but the Buddha-like among us. Most of the time, we can take a second or so, and calm our internal state, and experience peace.

It is invaluable to find time everyday, to sit and relax, and sink into ourselves, and connect with the peace, that is there. It may be frustrating for some, as they seem to be unable to quiet there minds. Please persist. Undoing is often more difficult than doing. Meditation, reaching peace, is undoing. It is not achieving. 

We all have absolute calm at our center. It is a calmness that is vast. We all can reach it. Know it is there. It is our connection to Oneness. It is our connection to Source. We will all know it.

Love and Peace,  Gregg