OUR MINDS VII

 

It is cool, only 69.4 F at 10:22 AM. It is not horribly unusual for this time of year but it seems chilly after the 80s and 90s last week. It started cooling off yesterday and the highs will be in the low seventies all week.

I gave myself the Father's Day present of getting my lawn mowed. Just before completing the task my mower went ker-plunk. It suddenly wouldn't move. It looks like something just disconnected. I called the tractor people and they are coming out tomorrow to pick it up. Hopefully I will get it back before it grows a foot. My lawn is broken up into about six segments, but it must total about 2 acres. There is a large section I could convert into pasture but I have apple trees growing there. I need to figure an easy way to protect the trees from the sheep. Sheep are inconsistent in some of their dietary habits. They can be around an apple tree for years, and leave it alone, and then one day find the bark is tasty. They will eat the leaves as high as they can reach.

The media, both mainstream and alternate, is really inviting us to be crazy. We are constantly invited to take sides. We are constantly invited to invest our energy in one cause or another. We are encouraged to join the fight. In what world has fighting solved anything?

I don't think the world has ever been so blatantly crazy, as it seems right now. It can be depressing. It doesn't have to be.

On this planet we have the constant choices between opposites. The light and the dark; love and fear; good and evil; war and peace; etc. Indulging in war can't bring peace. We can't use the negative to achieve the positive.

As individuals we are constantly invited to choose between some form of darkness and light. The distinction is not always clear. However, whatever choice we make encourages more of the same. Darkness always brings more darkness and light brings more light.

So we want to change the world. We can't do it by picking fights or joining a fight in progress. We can do it by extending peace. We can do it by radiating love.

The world is made up of a collection of minds. Each mind has the power to influence all other minds. As they stand, each mind has equal power. However, most people have given, part or all of their minds, over to some idea or ideology, thus giving up their power to those, who would use the energy of their minds, for their own purposes. Thus, folks can feel helpless about controlling events, without realizing they have given up their choices to others. War would be impossible without the acquiescence of minds.

We need to be very careful about how our minds are being used. Don't jump into any fray no matter how worthy it seems. Look, does it engender conflict? Does it add to the love and peace of the world or doubt and fear? We are always making a choice in our minds between some form of love and fear.

We need to separate ourselves from the world drama. We must resist all attempts to be led into camps with labels on them. Labels almost always imply beliefs. Beliefs almost always imply trust in an authority or an ideology. The dark have been using our minds for untold generations for their own purposes. Their purpose always includes, their wealth and power, and their tool is divisiveness {the denial of Oneness} which leads to war and conflict.

We can not gain the world we want by using their devices. We must avoid creating more divisiveness.

The best way is to start with ourselves. Are we sovereign individuals capable of thinking for ourselves? Have we rid ourselves of all the extraneous beliefs we have absorbed from our upbringing etc. Have we been successful at resisting labeling and group-think?

One uncluttered mind radiating love is more powerful than a thousand conflicted minds.

We can only change the world with love. We can join the love that is flowing through the world right now. With every smile, with every laugh, with every sparkle of our eyes we add to the light.

We are works in progress. I don't know if there is anyone on earth, at this moment, who has a completely uncluttered mind. But, all of us, can have an uncluttered mind for a moment. All that we need to do is have the conscious intent to be loving and we have already helped. Remember moment by moment choose love in every situation.

We have the power, a world of love is emerging.

Love and Peace, Gregg