KEEP ON TRUCKING

 

The mild weather continues 37.9F, that is warm for this time of year; yet, I am not fully used to Winter and it is chilly to me. I still have chores to do outside and I would prefer a little nicer weather. That is a procrastinator speaking. It is cloudy and uninviting outside at the moment.

The World looks a lot like that, to many of us, right now. Superficially, the outer layer of the world consciousness is bizarrely crazy. Likewise many of us are going through stressful situations; disappointments, illnesses, disruptive relationships, general malaise, etc.

This is a time of sorting out. At a personal level, it is as if we are being tested; do we really choose love over fear? Do we really choose a life of love and freshness or are we hanging on to an old reality; the familiar?

On a larger societal level, all the possible craziness seems to be manifest for all to see. What can we do? Have we learned by now, that we can't make war on what we don't like? Making war creates more war. We have been doing that forever. That is how the unscrupulous have stayed in control, by creating division and adversity. We don't want to do that anymore. We long for peace. There is a way to be heard without creating more conflict.

Likewise in our personal lives; the stress in the World, acts like a magnifier, making us more sensitive to the comments of those close to us. We all have buried triggers from ancient hurts. We can find ourselves, in an intense argument with a loved one, because we are responding, more to feelings from an unhealed hurt, than what the other person intended.

We can be going along, happy as a clam, thinking “boy, things are really alright” and the next moment be in relationship hell. We need to cut ourselves some slack, we are not perfect yet. In a sense we are perfect. At some point, we will see, things did work out perfectly.

So what do we do? How do we bring peace into the World and our personal lives? I would suggest we change that first question to, “How should we be?” It is our being that will bring changes not our doing. We need to be cautious of doing. For doing to be effective it must come from a place of peace and love. Any other kind of doing furthers conflict or does nothing.

We are very powerful beings in our 'being'. When we connect with the love and peace inside us we radiate love and peace; this raises the consciousness of all. If we want peace in the World, we must discover the peace inside us.

If we want to avoid those relationship hassles, we must realize the love, inside us, is real. The love is real and cannot be threatened. When we feel hurt or disregarded by someone's comment, we are reacting to an ancient program. When we find ourselves doing this: look, see where that hurt comes from; parents teachers, a life experience; know it no longer is; forgive, forgive some more, let it go. Some of us are successful with one experience, for others it may feel like wearing away a rock, but we will be successful. We cannot fail. Love is on our side.

The World, and the people around us, need our blessings not our curses.

So what do we do when things look awful? We blink our eyes, take another look, reconnect with the love in our being, hold our light high and “keep on trucking” {to steal a phrase from the Grateful Dead}.

Love and Peace, Gregg