THE GASMAN COMETH

I awoke to brilliant Sunshine! The Sun comes up at 5:30 AM this time of year. I was up at 4:30 [bathroom visit] and noticed it was already getting light. I was a little surprised, that it began to get light, a full hour before dawn. You would think, at my age, I would have all those things nailed down. I don't. I see wonders every day that should be old hat. But then, everything is new. Every time we open our eyes, our perception treats us to something different. We live in a marvelous, ever changing, beautiful world.

I am waiting for the gas man. I need to assist him, running his hose through the flower garden, and pay him. We have a Wolf restaurant style kitchen range that runs on propane. We have a one hundred gallon tank that we fill in late Spring and late Autumn. I kept checking it these last couple months and there was always plenty left. These last two weeks, it came to my mind several times, but I was doing something else and I didn't check it. Monday, I looked at it and there was less that two percent. It was Memorial Day, so they were closed. Fortunately we have crock pots we can use.

I don't like running out of gas because the pilot light is a bear to light. I learned a new trick, but I used to have to lay on the floor, and insert a long match or a lighter through a small hole, and heat up a thermo-couple, while depressing a button until the pilot light would ignite and become steady. I did not like doing this and my old bones no longer like laying on the kitchen floor, not to mention getting up and down.

Last year we had the repairman out [to replace that very thermo-couple] and he took out the bottom of the oven and lit the pilot light from the above. Since then, the pilot light did go out for some reason, and I was able to replicate his procedure. Wow- that was a lot easier on the body. However, it entailed several steps. I still don't want to run out of gas!

I don't feel like writing more about the mind today. It is an amazingly beautiful day, and I just want to go out on the deck, and drink my coffee, and wait for the gas man.

I might say, we need to realize, that the vast majority of thoughts we have, serve no purpose. They are often vaguely disguised judgements. It is possible to go through the day with a quiet mind. Our minds do not have to comment on everything we perceive. A sunset, is just as beautiful, without our minds commenting on it. A flower is just as wondrous. In fact thinking often detracts from the beauty of what we perceive. When we are not building something or trying to figure something out, we don't need thoughts. Even while doing a creative project, ideas and guidance, often comes to us without thought.

Peace and love are experienced with a minimum of thought. We can use our minds constructively or destructively. And that is where thought and the creation of our reality stands.

More on Friday.

Love and Peace, Gregg