AFFIRMATIONS

Spring is struggling to take hold, but it is. It should be a nice day today, with Sunshine and highs in the fifties.

Wednesday, I stated that I might share my affirmations. I thought it might be helpful to some folk. I had some resistance. I thought the resistance, might be, that it made me feel vulnerable; which it does. However, if that was the only reason I would do it. It has always helped me to confront my feelings of vulnerability and, at least, at an intellectual level, I think vulnerability is strength.

Then as I thought/felt about it, I came to the conclusion, we have to make our own affirmations. I have no reason to believe, that the affirmations I developed, would fit for someone else. They certainly might, but they could become just rote. I know, even for myself, they can become rote, meaningless words said automatically. I was grown-up, and had given up religion, before I discovered, what the prayers I learned, really meant. How many people this Sunday are going to intone prayers they have not really considered. How many folks will say “ forgive me my trespasses, as I forgive those who trespass against me.” I think it would, suddenly, be a different world, if all those who said it- meant it.

I think affirmations, especially soon after arising, and as we are going to sleep, have value. Each person has to develop their own according to where they are at. What are we trying to learn? What obstacles do we see need overcoming? Do we need to give up judgement? Do we need to understand Oneness better? Do we need to be more open to love? Do we need to get along with other folks better? Do we need to understand what our sense of deity is? What are our goals? What are our dreams for ourselves, for others, for humanity?

Affirmations help us learn, they help give direction. They aid in our becoming. When we do them, we are talking to our self and to the universe. The universe can be the the Great Void, God, The Great Spirit, Allah, All that Is, Nothingness, Unconditional Love et. al. When we do affirmations we are attempting to teach, or program, ourselves and we are asking for assistance from whatever deity we believe in.

I feel that when we reach out, with love, to the loving universe our dreams are reinforced. If it is a successful affirmation it will be fresh and have vitality. It will be new every time we say it to ourselves. When we find ourselves doing one by rote we can change the wording a bit or renew our focus.

I guess that is all I have to say about affirmations for now.

Let us affirm we are loving beings, living in a loving world, by celebrating this day!

Happy Friday! Enjoy!

Love and Peace, Gregg

GETTING IT TOGETHER

It was a remarkably beautiful day yesterday; today it is back to the Spring drears. That is okay, we can feel Spring getting ready to express itself; or should I say herself; isn't Spring feminine, being the renewal of Life?

Last year, at this time, we had crocuses blooming! The frost is still in the ground, it will be a few more days this year. I hope it will warm up soon enough so I can get the hoses working; hauling water gets to be a chore. The sheep are drinking about twice is much now.

I have nothing profound to say about the craziness in the world; it will pass. In the meantime, I practice getting my own act together. We are all experts on our own faults. The paradox is we don't rid ourselves of them by focusing on them. Just like, with seeing another's faults, we must look beyond them, and see the loving being beneath them. The further paradox is, that we can't successfully do it with others, if we can't do it with ourselves. Perhaps, that is the beginning of understanding Oneness.

In the last blog I indicated that, the New Moon's effect on me, might be history. I was wrong. I had a bit of negative behavior. We need to own up to our ridiculousness, and at he same time, forgive ourselves and know we are loving beings of light. We get into trouble, when we attack ourselves, for our faults. We will often out-picture the discomfort and attack the person next to us [often the closest person to us]. This can happen so fast that we don't even realize we were judging ourselves. We always attack ourselves first, before we attack another. The first step can be hidden from us, however, with a modicum of contemplation, we can generally see how it works. We feel bad, because of some some faultfinding, and then behave like a jerk to another. We can take it a step further and feel bad about our jerkiness, deny it, and attack the person further.

Forgiveness, of course, is the key. We need to forgive ourselves, as we would another, ahhh- see how it works- sounds familiar doesn't it. Forgiveness needs to cover all of us.

From the time we were born, we were carefully taught to judge ourselves. It doesn't matter how perfect, our parents may have been, [though that certainly helps] our whole world is a marinade of judgement. Every institution uses judgement to control. Self judgement becomes automatic. We try to fulfill others expectations of us. Many of us, learn, to care more about societies judgements of us, than our own.

THEN WE WANT TO GROW UP. How do we reverse years of programming? To some extent we will have some jerkiness as long as we judge ourselves. And we will continue to struggle with our judgements of others, as long as we judge ourselves. Everybody is going to do this a little different. Some folks can rid themselves of a whole load of shit through meditation. Other's need to deal with it more piece mill, they need to see where their self-judgements came from, and forgive all involved. Most of us will have a more scatter-gun approach. We will recognize that, we must be okay, at some level, and do the best we can. Life comes to us. When we recognize, we create our experience, we learn to see, what we created by our own negativity.

I start with the idea that I am love, and so is everybody else. Anything, that is not love, is the illusion we buy into. Yes, I too, live in the illusion. But, I recognize, when I am not happy, I am being crazy, and when I am making someone else unhappy, I am compounding it. I own up to my nuttiness as best as I can and practice forgiveness. It is hard to forgive yourself, when you have contributed, to the discomfort of the person next to you, and they are reminding you. Ahhh.... see Oneness. Forgiveness needs to be a blanket of love.

I like to use affirmations, that I am a loving being living in a world, created by love. I, also, use thankfulness; I express my thankfulness to a loving universe several times a day.

I think everyone needs to find the affirmations that fit for them, so I hesitate to share mine. I will think about it [wrong word] I won't think, I will just let the idea soak and if it feels right, I will share my daily affirmations on Friday.

Love and Peace, Gregg

A NEW MOON

 

I went outside just after daybreak and the air was filled with bird noises. Loud, large birds; Sand Hill Cranes, crows and others in the background. Soon, the sweet songs of the smaller birds, will orchestrate, and then we will know Spring has arrived.

It was forecast to be mostly cloudy, but it is mostly Sunny. Great, we needed the Sun. It is turning out to be a marvelous day on planet Earth.

The chickens are loving the lack of snow. They come roaring out every Morning and greet the day with alacrity. I have about thirty hens and three roosters. I had only one rooster last year and the egg fertility rate did not seem to be high. If we want fertilized eggs, a ratio of one rooster to ten hens, is about right. That is for heavy breeds. Light breeds, like Leghorns, will work out with a much higher ratio- one rooster to every twenty hens, perhaps.

Last year, I ordered two Ameraucana Roosters along with the broilers, I may want to incubate some eggs. Americana is the correct name for what we have been calling Araucana. They are the ones that lay green, blue, and pinkish eggs. Ameraucanas, have Araucana heritage, but are interbred with traditional heavy breeds. Araucanas originated in South America. The colored egg trait is dominate, so any pullets, I would hatch, would lay colored eggs.

It is a little tricky having three roosters in the same small coop. So far they are not fighting. The old rooster, is maintaining his dominance, without bloodshed. They are getting along fairly well, but they are very alert to how the others are getting along with the ladies. When one tries to mount, the other two, are quick to interfere with the lovemaking. I am not going to get fertile eggs that way.

I threw out some whole corn for the chickens to eat yesterday. They picked at it a little and quit. Corn used to be a real treat to the chickens. It was like kids with candy. They would pick every last kernel. I buy my corn at a local feed mill. When GMO corn became popular in our area, I asked the manager of the feed store, what the ratio of GMO corn was in the mix. He said he didn't know. They just mixed it all together. That conversation took place over ten years ago. I have noticed, my chickens, have liked the corn I gave them, less and less, in the intervening years. It seems the majority of farms in our area now raise GMO corn.

So the chickens have a better instinct for what is good for them than Humans? Is it the Round-up? Is it just less nutritious? The corn I threw out is still laying on the ground. In the old days, it would have been gone, in about fifteen minutes. The good news is that it won't hurt them if they won't eat it. Of course, it is in their mash, too. I do not have a good source of organic feed. I have to drive twice as far and pay three times as much. I think I will be doing it anyway.

It is the New Moon. I went through, a period, dreading the New Moon. Here is the story. When we were living closer to the Earth, we had no electricity, or running water, we were more aware of the celestial happenings. I would always have a thrill, when I saw, the first sliver of moon in the West at Sundown. I realized that the preceding two or three days were difficult. I was either mildly depressed, irritable or things just were not going well. The visibility of the New Moon was a release from the negativity. It was a bright light entering my soul.

I started paying attention. Sure enough, it was an obvious cycle, I would experience some negativity around the New Moon, that would terminate when the Moon sliver became visible. It must have been happening my whole life and I didn't notice it. Sometimes the negativity would be mild; perhaps a little gloom, sometimes it would be accompanied by angry outburst. At the worst, it seemed like an attack coming from the outside. I realized, however, it had to be my own creation.

Being aware of it, helped me deal with it. It didn't happen overnight, but I learned to be watchful of my judgements and would not dwell on negative thoughts. It can still happen, but it is much better. I don't know if it is, because I am better at dealing with it, or it is my age. It seems like it will soon be only a memory. That's good. Interestingly, the Full Moon doesn't seem to have any effect on me.

Well, I have chores to do and I will accompany Jamie, to the Amish, to get milk.

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

YES! ALL IS WELL.

 

I think I am having a tantrum. Do octogenarians have tantrums? I thought about something, to write  about today, and now, I don't want to. I have been waiting. One of my flaws is, I don't do waiting well. My hay man was suppose to deliver me some bedding last week. I expected him Monday, at the latest. I finally called him on Wednesday and he said he would be here Thursday afternoon. He didn't show up. I understand, it was raining. My barn is in pitiful shape. Lambing is in progress and it doesn't seem a fit place to bring new life into the world.

Then my Son's car broke down. It has been in the garage for over a week awaiting a part. This means he has to take my 21 year old little truck on journeys it may no longer be equipped to make.

I don't like waiting. All is well, Gregg; a voice says is my head. I know it is true, but I forget when I have to wait. Quit waiting then, another voice says, be in the moment, embrace life. Stop being a dolt.

Okay!

What I was thinking, about writing, was an attempt to clarify the financial dilemma our government is in. It has been operating on borrowed money for several years. Every child that is now born in the U.S. is indebted. We are born in debt. For years economist have stated, that it is no big deal; productivity will increase. The gross national product will increase, there will be new tax revenue; we will make it up. However, those days are long past. With all the manufacturing gone overseas, and our economy becoming a so-called service economy, our gross national product has actually gone down. The information, the government puts out, doesn't reflect it, because they started to include financial products, with the 'hard' produce in the statistics. These financial products do not necessarily reflect real value. In fact they may have negative value, like all those bundled mortgages, sold to unsuspecting, overseas banks before the recent crash.

Under our present system we have no way of repaying the debt. It will keep accumulating, plus interest, until the next crises. We have no new taxpayers. Our birthrate has dropped to the point where we are not replacing the population and much of that is growing past the productive age. We depend on immigration to add new taxpayers to the roles; the present ideology is putting the cabash on that.

Of course we could solve the problem with a complete restructuring of the tax system. Taxing the rich? Don't hold your breath. So, when the government wants to borrow more, and congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, what is going to happen. Again, the problem could be easily solved, by cutting the defense budget in half. We would still be spending more on the war machine than any country on earth. Is that going to happen in the current administration? Highly doubtful; it means draconian cuts to social programs. It could mean chaos and a breakdown of all we know.

Imagine a family of four; they make $40,000 a year, and it is plenty for them, to have a happy life. But they have an eccentric uncle who is greedy and demanding and wants $10,000 of that. He has some control over them and they cannot refuse him. This eccentric uncle is, also, paranoid and is able to instill fear in the family. They buy a $20,000 security system because they are afraid they may be killed in their sleep. Now they have only $10,000 to live on. They do the best they can, but this same eccentric uncle is willing to lend them money at a high rate of interest. In order to make ends meet, they continue to borrow. They hope to get better jobs, but it doesn't turn out. Soon they owe more than they will ever be able to pay. Their children will have to take on the debt.

We, as a country, are in a similar pickle. There are many ways, a soft landing can be engineered, but that would require high taxes on the rich and an end to our military adventuring. Can we see that happening?

I have said many times, I am not a prophet. I don't do well, when I attempt to look into the future. These are, the cold hard facts, that stare at me, and I am puzzled, that those more educated in this area, are not putting up more warnings. They are there [the warnings], but one has to go looking for them.

In one sense, it doesn't matter. It has to collapse. Our economy, and government structure, is so riddled with fraud and corruption, that it stinks. We are happy to be rid of our paranoid uncle. Yet it would be nice if we knew how big a garden we should plant, and should we order those chickens, this year or wait until next?

Well, as I tell myself, all is well! We will do just fine! We will be able to remake civilization in our local communities. After all, we do love each other! We can actually put the civil back into civilization. It has been missing for many, many years.

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

WHAT TO DO?

Okay, I have been sitting here over an hour and I can't think of any thing to talk about. I can define and redefine the crazy projections of the world. That doesn't help. It is easy to find fault with the rotting corpse of the world that is passing.

I can say, what I have said several times before, that we need to ignore the craziness and begin bringing in the new world. The world of love, that has always been behind the veil we have created with our collective egos. It is the world that happens when we embrace our Oneness.

We might wonder, how we can ignore the craziness when it looks like it might engulf us? Good question! The problem is most resistance, but not all, carries with it some negativity. Any negativity can give energy to the craziness. When we feel threatened, our egos get engaged. When our egos are engaged we add to the nuttiness.

There are a few, who can follow the advice of our various Great Ones, and resist and truly love the oppressors. Folks like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. For the most part they could truly love their enemy. They could see their oppressors lacked vision and were filled with compassion for their blindness.

Most of us, however, get our egos involved, one way or another, and to some extent add negativity to the dark pool that already exist. We don't need that. If we can't resist and stay loving, loving for everybody, we are better off ignoring the situation that has us riled up.

If through meditation, contemplation and, finding some quietness inside [one way or another] we can separate ourselves from the craziness; and can focus, on our own lives, and those around us; in peace we can express the love that is inside us. The love that we are. If we can spend a day, loving ourselves and the world around us, we will further the cause of bringing love and peace to the world; far more, than any opposition will do.

Nothing can happen, good or bad, without the cooperation of the energy we put out.

All that is missing to change the World is Love.

Let us tune in to who we are; we are Love.

I have got dishes to do and various chores to do.

Love and Peace, Gregg

HAPPY SPRING!

 

Happy Spring! It is about the normal temperature for this day, 46 F, but it feels cooler; it is cloudy right now, but there is a promise of Sunshine.

I awoke about 3:30 AM and had trouble getting back to sleep. I started thinking of all the things I had to be thankful for and I dosed off and dreamt that people started to look, at all the craziness, in the most loving way possible. The perpetuators of the craziness, began to change too, and began to alter their direction. It was not a smooth dream, it was sort of obsessive/compulsive; well, that is not right either. It is hard to describe, but it went on for the rest of the night, about four hours. I got up feeling positive.

I don't think my dreams are prophetic. I am not sure they mean anything at all; but sometimes I contemplate them. What would happen, if we did look at everything we saw, with as much love as we could muster?

Perhaps, that is the greatest power we have. I don't think the craziness can stand up to love. At one level, I am absolutely confident, we will get through this okay. I know this period of especial bizarreness won't last. We won't tolerate much more governmental dysfunction. We know we are loving beings and we are entitled to live sane and creative lives.

I don't like to see people lose their cool and verge on hysteria; that just plays into the hands of the manipulators. As I have stated many times before, nothing can happen without our cooperation. Negativity can not exist without fear to support it. A tyrannical government can only exist if fearful people support it. The fear works both ways; some people support a tyrannical government out of fear, others help create it because they are afraid it might happen.

We are the creators. We create individually and collectively. We create with love or we create with fear. Love and fear, are ongoing momentary, choices. If we want a loving world, we need to stay out of the fear swamps. Fear beckons. Our egos have been trained to respond to fear. We can re-train them. We can and will learn to eschew fear.

Happiness is our default position. In the absence of fear we are happy. We will have a Happy Spring!

Celebrate!

Love and Peace, Gregg

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

It is warmish 41 F, but cloudy, and not particularly pleasant. It matches my mood. I have been in a glum mood, off and on, ever since I watched the news last night. I know, I know, I tell me people not to watch the news; but who takes their own advice? Anyway, I am a tough 82 year old, I have experienced all kinds of government craziness- it won't faze me. Ya right. The news is deplorable. At first it was just a clown show-mostly funny- it is not funny anymore.

I know it has to happen. It is all part of the awakening process. We need to see how crazy our government apparatus has become. I know it is okay. I know it is passing.

It is not good for us, to give it reality, with our thoughts and feelings. Ignore it, it will have no power. I have learned that my mood, is my choice, and I don't have to be glum a minute longer. I shall not be!

We are creating a new way to live on Planet Earth.

It is good we have this day to celebrate! St. Patrick's Day, is a day we have, just to celebrate life! Celebration raises the vibration of our planet. Celebration opens the hearts and minds and allows love to flow.

I have a man coming to deliver me some hay for bedding and I have other chores to do. This will be a short blog.

Have a great St. Patrick's Day and a great Friday! We are all Irish today.

Love and Peace, Gregg

THE ECONOMY?

 

The anti-spring might be over. The temperature stayed above zero [barely] these last two nights and it supposed to top out at 35 F today. Still below average, the normal high for today is 41.

It is a beautiful day on planet Earth; blazing Sunshine, calm- it is great to be alive.

I must have insulted my chickens; last week when I was at the feed store I bought two dozen eggs [folks bring them in]. Our chickens were laying two to four a day and that didn't keep up with our usage. The next day they laid ten eggs and they have been laying good every since. Nobody will eat any of those two dozen purchased eggs. Oh well, maybe a big omelet?

While the main stream media is hyping the craziness of the world, they are not paying attention to the collapsing world economy. The economy in South America is in the toilet. The European Union couldn't be more fragile and the U.S. economy depends on an ever increasing output of printed money {actually numbers on a computer screen}. The numbers are put out by the Fed and supposedly backed up by the U.S. government. Oh, are they really?! Economist have been waiting for, at least forty years, for the excrement to hit the fan, we have always been bailed out by our war machine, that is not going to happen. The consciousness of the world will no longer support a large scale war. We are going to have to back up and sit on a pile of debt. Without cranking up the war machine to save the economy it would take generations to pay back the debt. Most economist think it is impossible.

Why doesn't the government just cancel the debt? Who is the Fed anyway? As far as I know, the Fed is made up of a consortium of World Banks. Is that the Cabal? Are they the ones who have been running things? Could the government really refuse to pay? I would assume the Fed has the power to collapse the economy, so the government is at their mercy. How is that a democracy?

Today, the permission the government, had to run up the debt ceiling is at an end. At the rate, the government currently spends money, it will run out around June. The word on the street is, it is unlikely that congress will vote to raise the debt ceiling again. That would mean an austerity program we have never experienced. It could even mean cuts in Social Security and Medicare. It would certainly, put an end, to the talk of improving our infra-structure. Oh sure, it could be prevented, perhaps a Franklin Roosevelt could; at least he would know how, to pick up the pieces, after the fall. With today's ideology permeating congress, it doesn't look good.

It is actually a good thing. We need to rebuild our economy [and our whole civilization] from the bottom up. No more Federal Reserve Bank. No more toxic capitalism. We need real free enterprise. A system where all can participate freely. We need to celebrate the collapse of the present system. I have said before, that this collapse, has been anticipated by people of good will, and a system, free of the present toxicity, is being readied. [More on this later].

In the meantime, we should pay off as much debt as we can, to avoid possible hassle in the interim. Raise a garden, keep a few chickens if we can, identity folks in our community who will need assistance and remember the most important thing we can do is love. We will get through this, love will show us the way.

Love and Peace, Gregg

AND LIFE GOES ON

We missed the worst of the snowstorm. We got less than an inch of snow. Good news; but Spring is definitely on hold, at least this week. I have a story to tell. I don't want to inflict my pain on anyone; but it is my present state of being and I can't see around it, so I must go through it.

First the good news: last year, we had a lambing tragedy. We had ewes that lambed and then could not stand on their legs. Two ewes recovered and two died; we lost all the lambs. The problem was diagnosed as a mineral deficiency. We bought the ewes from a gentlemen, who had converted a crop field to a pasture, and had the his sheep on it. Like many fields that have been used for raising corn for many years, when converted to pasture, the grass lacks essential nutrients. I was feeding the ewes a mineral block but it apparently wasn't enough. So this year, I was concerned, that this problem was history. The good news was that three days ago, one of those surviving ewes had a pair of twins and they were very healthy and so was the Mom.

This Morning I could see only one of the lambs. I looked in the barn and nothing there. I thought she might be just lagging behind. Then I saw a shape up against the fence, all covered with snow, it was a lamb shaped snow mound. I hoped it was was an illusion; it wasn't. The little lamb had gotten through the fence somehow and couldn't get back in. She was frozen and tangled in the fence. Like all people who raise animals, I have had experiences like this before; we live through it, but never really get used to it. I am sad, but I am okay.

I accept that life comes to us, one day at a time; and life, has a life of its own. I momentarily grieve but I know from 80 plus years on planet Earth, that all is okay. All is love and nothing is really lost. Things change form, things happen; life and love continues.

Some wonderful things happened since I last blogged. Friday night, Naomi and Elijah visited and stayed the night. Noah couldn't work, due to car trouble. We celebrated. We had one of our great roasted, home grown chicken and squash and had a marvelous time. We played a game called “Cards Against Humanity”, [I think that is right]. It was marvelous fun. We played until nearly midnight.

There are bumps in life's road, but I am happy. We carry happiness with us. It is our default state. Once we discover that, we can always find it.

CELEBRATE!

Celebration encourages the awakening process. We must use every excuse to celebrate. Celebration dilutes negativity; it opens the heart and mind. Celebration acts as a antidote to the poison of the main stream media. We must not only, celebrate at a family level, but we must encourage and formulate community celebration. Anticipate the awakening. It is happening.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LET US SEE WHAT LOVE CAN CREATE

I wasn't looking forward to the downturn in temperatures. It was forecast to be two below this Morning. When I got up it was barely below zero [-0.4F], but brilliantly Sunny and relatively calm; a great relief from the incessant winds of the last few days. It is warming up slowly, it is now 5.3 above zero. The chickens don't seem to mind. They love it, that the snow is gone, and they can roam around their universe. They are free to go wherever they want; but they are homebodies, as well, and don't go far out of the yard. The sheep, on the other hand, would roam to a neighboring farm if unfenced. We have had the experience of free roaming sheep; it doesn't work very well.

Are we staying calm? Are we ignoring the hubub in the main stream media? Most of the claims that are being made, by both factions of the dying Cabal, are fallacious. Blaming Russia for anything is ludicrous; especially since we have been the ones who have been spying and manipulating elections all over the world. Even if it were true, it would be a 'tempest in a teapot', and have little to do with anything. We ignore the real problems and focus on trivia. Our government, and whole society, is collapsing under the weight of, unheard of, corruption. Check out the amount of money that the politicians are getting from the health care industry; the very people that are supposedly charged with formulating an Affordable Health Care replacement. {the information is easily available-google or what have you} How can politicians, who are bought and paid for, do anything but the industries bidding? Whatever happens, they will come up with a scheme that makes the rich richer and the people will pay.

And this has been happening, at every level, in every sector of the government, for a very long time. We are not going to stop the corruption by letting our minds be focused on every bit of static that incites the MSM. Yes, there are many brave souls who enter politics with the hope of changing things; but, with a government, not so surreptitiously, run by a corptocracy, with their bought and paid for eunuchs, it is difficult getting re-elected without getting your hands dirty. There are a few shining examples, but they don't get put up for the presidency, unless the Cabal thinks they can control them.

We don't have to get all riled up. It is over. The cabal lost in its attempt at world domination. They overreached in their attempt to control the world's energy resources. Folks, all around the world, realized these wars, with all their death and horrible destruction, had nothing to do with terrorism or people being free and had everything to do with empire building. Somehow, the cabal was able to use the MSM to keep us blind to the horrible carnage we were creating in the world. Someway, in our minds, we were able to justify or at least not pay attention, to what was happening. We blamed everybody else, even though, we and our surrogates were responsible. {I say 'we' meaning the United States government -but we are all innocent- how many of us, in or out of the government- would condone this behavior if we knew?}

We are innocent because we had our eyes closed. Let us open them a crack, and face the fact that we have been hoodwinked by master manipulators, who use fear to get what they want. It will be refreshing to see, what is, rather than what we have been programmed to believe.

The Cabal is collapsing partly because they made some fatal mistakes. However, the most significant reason for their demise, is the awakening that is taking place. Remember, that that every human being on this Earth has equal power. Those who rule, can only rule, because we surrender some of our power to them. This can be legitimate; elections, appointments by elders etc., or it can be stolen, through use of fear and manipulation. There is no clear dividing line.

We regain our power by a decision we make. Manipulators, rob us of our power, by making us afraid. We can make a decision, not to allow fear to inhabit our minds, for any lengthy period. We can keep our minds free of fear. A mind that is not fearful contributes to the energy we call Love. We are constantly asked to make a choice between love and fear. Every time we choose fear we lose power. Every time we choose love, we add to the love in the world. The fear in the world, that has fed the Cabal, is like a giant glacier, love is like the Sunshine that melts it.

The awakening, means people are opening their eyes, seeing the truth, and refusing to be afraid; their love is combining to melt the negativity of the world.

We are the Creators! We have seen what fear can create. Let us see what Love can do.

Happy Friday! Celebrate!

Love and Peace, Gregg

WE CARRY OUR WORLD WITH US

Spring appears in retreat. It is cold and blustery and there is a dusting of snow covering the ground. The snow, we had yesterday Morning, melted and I was surprised to see more snow this Morning. It seems like the wind has been howling forever, I think it is gradually tapering down. We have had a lot of windy Marches. In about a month we should have a branch gathering party and a big bonfire.

Friends and relatives report seeing Robins and I am seeing, many Canadian Geese and Tundra Swans, that I am positive are migratory. They must know something; perhaps, Spring is really here, despite this weeklong kick-back to Winter.

Spring is coming after-all. Is that a decent segue into what I want to talk about? Do I want to talk about it? There are two distinct separate Worlds: the one portrayed by the Main Stream Media and reacted to hysterically on Social Media and there is that other World. The World we participate in every day. It is there when we wake up in the Morning. We see it when we go to the grocery store. We experience it when a neighbor calls for a visit. We live in it.

It is the World, that we carry around with us, it can be loving, peaceful, enriching, it can be lots of things. It seems that this world changes according to what we are thinking and feeling. It can be pretty wonderful or not. But generally it is pretty good isn't it. Folks greet us with smiles as we go about our business. We have both mini and maxi conversations with people we meet. It appears that when we meet people with warmth and a smile, we get it back. Occasionally, we meet a grouch, and instead of ignoring them, we give them a radiant “How are you?” Hey, we have seen grouches light up like Christmas trees. Haven't we? And sometimes, we may have been the grouch, greeted by a radiant smile.

One can postulate that everything is illusion. But wow, this world we carry around with us is our immediate experience. It is our life! It is filled with what we want to fill it with. We can fill it with peace and love or.............................

That other World; the MSM[ and its associates] is pure illusion. Emerging ourselves in it has no value. It is created by fear, and can only distract us, from the love and beauty of our own lives. It is especially horrible right now, because those who have been in control, have lost. They are in a panic. They have lost their power and they won't regain it. IGNORE IT- IT CANNOT HARM US.

We are in charge. We carry the life we want, with us. It surrounds us. It is ours. Keep it filled with Love. We are One. Together we have the power to usher in Paradise.

Love and Peace, Gregg

THANKFULNESS

 

Wow! It is over 50F. That is spectacular for a Morning in March. It supposed to get up to sixty; the average high is in the low thirties. The air is full of energy; it is exciting, yet ominous. The forecast calls for thunderstorms this Evening, possibly violent. By the middle of the week, it will cool down with highs near average and a possibility of snow. That is Minnesota for you.

Speaking of violent weather, there may be some violent economic events on the near horizon. The Fed is going to start raising the overnight interest rate soon. Janet Yellen announced it, I don't think they can back off now. They have been crowing about how healthy the economy is; even if the raise is small, it means the end of free money. This, coupled with, the rescinding of the governments ability to raise the debt ceiling on March 15, could lead to some very interesting [insert disastrous] events. The last time the government was about to run out of money an agreement was made to allow the administration to exceed the debt ceiling. That agreement is expiring and insiders predict congress will not agree to another.

At the present spending rate the government would run out of money sometime this Summer and possible sooner. Things are coming down; wise people could make this a relatively soft landing, stubborn ideologues could create disaster. Let us order our seeds and get our gardens in!

I awoke this Morning with a feeling of thankfulness. It was only a week ago today, that I thought I might be staring, at the end of my life, on this planet. Now, I am in raging good health. [raging- that's not the adjective I want- oh well- it will do]

But, I don't reserve thankfulness, just for the big events. I have found it useful to develop a continuing attitude of thankfulness. It was about 44 years ago, that I first began reading spiritual literature, with more than a casual or intellectual interest. Somewhere, in there, my journey began in earnest. Almost all the teachers, emphasized thankfulness, as a useful practice. I think I saw it as searching for things to thankful for; rather than, being thankful for what is.

A year or so ago, I saw that I was missing something. I began being thankful for 'what is'. When I awake, in the middle of the night, and experience some restlessness, I express thankfulness that I was sleeping so soundly. I feel the comfort of the bed and feel that thankfulness. Reasons to be thankful come into my mind. I soon fall back to sleep. There was a time, and not too long ago, that I would fret, that I would not get back to sleep. I was too hot, or I was too cold. My pillow was all bunched up. Things to be irritated about may parade through my mind.

I discovered that thankfulness is a very powerful idea. It is a mood lifter. It helps change perception. When we feel, the warmth of thankfulness, and look out at the world, we see a different world. It is remarkable how the world looks, when we expect to see something positive, rather than the usual craziness.

The first thing I do every Morning is express thankfulness. I do it as my eyes open. Every one of us has our own words. Some of us have a deity we express our thanks to, some people see a loving universe, others see an All that Is and some see a great energy void. Whatever, we see, It appears to be interactive. When we are thankful, we open the gates to Love. We can feel it. We can soak in it. We can marinate our souls in it.

Love and Peace, Gregg

WORKING ON SELF

It is cool here, but Sunny, it is a beautiful day on this part of planet Earth. I have had some reservations about writing Wednesday's blog. Did I really need to share all that detail? A little too much micturition?

When I was living through the drama, with my feverish mind, I kept going through the story in my head. Well it is done! As of yesterday, I have had no fever. I am dealing with a side effect of the medication, but I won't bore the reader with that.

I know I learned a great deal from this experience. It is a little too early to sum it up. It is difficult letting go and letting other people tend to chores. No matter how sick I was, I had to do go out, and get the eggs, or some little thing. I don't think we realize, how controlling we are, in our day to day functioning. Little things that don't really matter. Jamie has been doing the [MY] dishes. Whenever, I say my dishes, she corrects me; but it is my job. We all do things a little different. How much do we have invested in thinking our way is the best way?

This is not just, little things. We, also. Make judgements about others' life paths. We find something that works for us and we think others should adopt it. Of course we should share, what works for us, but we must not have the temerity to believe it fits for another. We must, let everybody be free, to make their own choices without pressure from us. Everybody is going the right way, like iron filings to a magnet, they cannot fail to reach the goal of Oneness with all. We don't know what the other sees. We don't know what makes them back-track sometimes. We can't know, what they need to learn, in order to continue forward. It may take them a much longer time; is that any of our business?

Note that the Great Ones never imposed their teachings on anyone. The people, we recognize as great spiritual teachers today, never try to fix anybody else. They recognize, they can only work on themselves and they may, share with others, what they are learning. It does no good meddling in some one else's life without invitation.

We all have, so much to do with ourselves, to prepare for awakening. It is going to happen, with or without us. The people of the Earth, as a group, have decided to wake up from their slumber and put behind them, this painful world of separation and judgement. Every time, one of us wakes up, and sees that we don't need to be crazy; the love increases for everyone. We need to remove, from ourselves, all judgement, all pettiness; you know, our willingness to focus on the ego struggle of our neighbor, rather than look past it, to the love at the center. We know it is there! Do we think seeing our neighbors faults makes us better? Hey we have been doing that for thousands of years- let's knock it off. And let us not find fault in ourselves either, it doesn't help. Let us just recognize, what we think as faults, and let our judgement go. We are works in process, we are all love at our center. If we just focus, on the love that surrounds us, and ignore the rest, we will be ready for the awakening.

The world that is, is passing away, it is crumbling; the greed, money, corruption, lust for power etc. is passe. It can't continue. Those involved in those behaviors will turn toward the light or they will need to be separated, so they are no harm to the rest of us.

Let us remove ourselves from, what we think we see, in the world. It is a clown car; but it ceases to be funny. I don't think observing it has entertainment value anymore. I guess I do get a chuckle out of it occasionally. I don't want the intensity of the craziness to contaminate my life.

Paradise is in us. Let's let it out! It is a great burst of light!

Happy Friday folks! Hold your Light high!

Love and Peace, Gregg

A MEDICAL DRAMA

I am still not up to snuff. [Wow I wonder where that expression comes from] I am well enough to believe this story has a happy ending.

The drama: Jamie had the flu, or whatever the crud was that was going around, about two weeks ago. I was sure I escaped it until Saturday, when I began to notice a discomfort in the back of my throat. I doubled my doses of vitamin C both Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday I complained that I had to pee every half hour. I don't think Jamie thought too much about it, because I am always complaining, that I just sat down, and I have to get up and pee. She did mention, that it could relate to the virus, that seemed to be growing in my body.

I didn't feel bad, but by evening, [we were watching the Academy Awards], I started to get the chills and then the violent shakes. It took two wool blankets and a quilt to slow down the shakes. They were especially bad after I got up to pee. I couldn't last out the award ceremony and went to bed. I kept my clothes on and covered myself with two quilts. I thought if this keeps up, I am going to need to go to the hospital. When I had that thought, I saw picture of myself with a catheter inserted and getting intravenous fluids. It occurred to me that I may be dehydrated, because I peed so much during the day and I didn't drink as much water, as I usually do. I always have a big glass of water at my elbow and I know I didn't drink as much, because it was tepid at my last sip. Since I was still having urinary frequency, although the volume was greatly reduced, I drank a glass or two of water every time I got up. It cured the chills.

I was flattering myself that I diagnosed my problem correctly and blamed my continued urinary frequency on my increased water intake. But now I was getting warm, rather than having the chills, and I was getting up about every fifteen minutes, so I went downstairs and sat in my chair. I thought, I might have less need, to get up, every fifteen minutes, if I sat up. It didn't help much, I moved to the North Room where I was closer to the downstairs bathroom. Somewhere in the wee hours of the Morning, I thought, there has to be something majorly wrong and it was Doctor time.

I didn't sleep much and was worn out, but except for the urgency and frequent urination, I didn't feel too bad. I continued, to drink a lot of water, and was not quite convinced that, it had little do do, with what was going on.

Then about 8AM I noted, there was blood in my urine. My much beloved younger brother, Garth, saw blood in his urine, and he died four month later, just before his 80th birthday. One can imagine what went through my mind. I guess I could sum it up by the phrase; Oh! Shit!

I did a little research and discovered that, this didn't have to be a dire symptom. I figured I would wait a couple days, and see how things were turning out, before going to the doctor. However, Jamie made an appointment for me and insisted I go. I did not tell Jamie about the blood in the urine. I did not want to worry her until I knew the prognosis.

I had a one of the new clinic doctors, he was young enough to be my grand child, but he exuded confidence and he was warm and friendly, besides. From my story, I told him pretty much what I wrote here, and a urine sample, he determined that I had a kidney infection, that began with a bladder infection and moved up. [Dysuria and Pyelonephritis] He reassured me that it was doubtful that I had cancer. I was given an antibiotic to take for ten days.

On the way to the pharmacist, I confessed to Jamie, the blood in the urine. She said, I should have told her, because then she would have known it was a UTI [urinary track infection].

Despite the fact that I had, almost no sleep, and in fact, was quite ill, I was high as a kite after leaving the clinic. I am not afraid to die, but not yet, and not that way. Hey! I still have work to do. I want to live to see the awakening take a firm hold in the world. I want to see paradise dawning.

So, with this piggyback bacteria, on top the virus that was developing, I am not perfect. It feels more like I am struggling with the crud- but who knows- I don't know what it feels like recovering from a UTI. I no longer have blood in my urine.

I wouldn't mind if you said a prayer for me.

I hope to be back to my usual blog on Friday.

Love and Peace, Gregg