SEEKING

 

The Sun greeted us this Morning! It seems like the first time in a few days. I don't keep track very well, but it seems like it has been rainy for a week. The Sun is now playing peekaboo with clouds, that are scuttling across the sky. All and all, a beautiful Morning.

My little chicks are getting over whatever ailed them. I think they are all, going to be all right. I didn't notice any droopiness this Morning. I think the problem may have occurred when I switched from medicated chick starter to non-medicated. I would never use medicated feed with chickens I have hatched myself and I have had 100% survival rate, at times. When I buy them from a commercial hatchery, I generally feed them medicated feed for the first couple weeks. I do this because, those chickens, are raised in such a sterile environment, I conclude, they may need something to help them until their immune systems develop. However, the lady at my favorite feed store, states that it is not necessary, she says, “Don't give them medicine unless they are sick.” I am depositionally inclined to agree with that.

Referring to my discussion on finding an appropriate word for 'all-that-is' or God, I guess I generally have used Source. I would be pleased to use God, if it wasn't so loaded.

Of course, the problem is not a word. The problem is that the word has been used to manipulate, kill, torture, indoctrinate, etc. It may be, that more people have been killed in the name of somebody's god than for any other reason.

But we know there is a positive side. People getting together in community, love, and thankfulness, once a week or so, is great. Could be very healing.

What if people got together, not because, they thought they knew the truth, but to seek the truth? What if religion became an instrument for seeking truth? What if we could all agree, that we don't know the truth?

I know that some of you think you know the truth, at least a truth that works for you. Don't lock yourself in stone. I think we are about to discover, that most of what we thought we knew, about religion, was bunk. Religion has been used to manipulate and control; it has kept us in a mindset that denies any real freedom.

Instead of getting together, and repeating what we think we know, we can get together to seek knowledge. What are we doing here in these silly bodies anyway? Another person might think, hey these bodies aren't silly, they are a marvel, look at the, engineering; all those systems humming along creating a whole that is simply grand. Isn't Nature marvelous!? Isn't Nature a miracle!?

Our existence on this planet is incredibly, amazing! We don't need preconceived ideas to interpret it. We can see with the fresh eyes of a newborn. No matter how we define ourselves, our beliefs lock us in to untruth, they keep us stuck; they keep us from learning more.

In my search for truth, the only thing, I think, I know, is that Love works. Seeing everything as Love makes life pleasant. It makes life enriching. It suggest Oneness. I don't think Love limits. It is my starting point; in the a search for truth, the search for being, the search for meaning, the search for the best way to live on planet Earth and honor ourselves, Nature and planet Earth.

I have to wash dishes and go to the feed store. Have a great day!

Love and Peace, Gregg