ACTING OUT OF LOVE

 

The internet was down this Morning. We had a weird storm in the middle of the night. I think it was around two; the sky was lit up almost continuously, but very little thunder. One could tell by the sound, that the rain was sometimes mixed with hail, as there would be a drumbeat of ice crystals against the roof. There was only one big clap of thunder and it wasn't really a clap, it was more like a great roar and ripping sound, like our roof being torn off. The storm didn't last long; perhaps, one half hour. It was an atypical storm, the temperature never went down more than a couple degrees. It was almost as warm this Morning, as it was, when I went to bed. We got ¾ of an inch of rain.

It was cloudy the first couple of hours this Morning but now it is sunny and bright. I didn't know if I was going to blog today since the internet went down. I can't use that as an excuse for not knowing what to write, as it is very rare that I have any idea about what I want to write.

This blog has gone very far astray from its original intention. When I began I wanted to create a forum for 'back-to-the landers' or 'modern homesteaders'; those folks trying to live off the land, or at least as close to Nature and the land, as their circumstances would permit. Jamie and I lived for seven years without electricity or running water, an outhouse outback, heated and cooked with wood, we lived off our little farm of twenty acres and had a comfortable, even elegant, life style. We had a constant stream of visitors who liked to share our experience. I felt we had something to offer others, in how to live off the grid; how to cook on a wood stove, canning, preserving food, salting and curing meat, how to keep food cool in Summer. All kinds of things that are slipping away from me now. That [kind of blog] didn't happen.

Of course my greatest interest is our search for who we are. What are we doing here on this planet? What are we, any way? Who are we? I took my own journey through psychological and spiritual evolution and witnessed many others in my role as a psychotherapist. I am still in the process, sometimes the goal is as close as my next breath and sometimes it seems far away. What is the goal? I see it as being always conscious of our Oneness; of making every decision with love. Knowing we are love and cannot be hurt by attack. Seeing clearly that anyone's attack is a cry for love.

We live in a world of positive and negative polarities. The positive is love and is real, in that it is eternal. The negative is unreal as it is connected to the illusion we have created out of fear.

We can learn that fear is unreal and ignore it. Fear is a creation of our separation and was part of our living in fragile bodies. However, the need to be concerned and on the lookout for danger, to our fragile bodies is immediate and direct, we can deal with it. In fact fear is not even a good word for it, it is merely protection, like throwing another log on the fire on a cold night.

Somehow, in our evolution, fear took up that space, that is created by, the absence of love. When we know love, we know consciously or unconsciously, that we are connected to all others and part of source. We are safe. When we feel our separateness, we can imagine danger.

To make a very long story short, those who wanted power over others, soon learned, the best way to do this was to accentuate their separateness, promote their fear, and give them a promise of protection, which can be very vague.

I didn't mean to get in to that- volumes could be written. I do want to emphasize that fear is unreal and a product of our separation that can be healed. Healing the world is the task of healing ourselves. As we seek, awareness ourselves, we give healing energy to the world.

Look at it this way; when we are centered and connected with our eternal selves, we only make decisions from love. When we are acting from our fear driven egos, no matter how well intentioned we may be, our actions will be tainted with fear.

We need to focus on our being, not on our doing. When we are in a good place our actions are healthy. When we are anxious or afraid- not so much.

One of my problems has been reacting to others out of some twinge of my ego. I have been learning to pause [this may not be a perceptible pause] connect, that I am love, before saying anything. When we can see through the twinger's facade and recognize they are love too, it is easier. With time this will become automatic.

Doing is great, however, it needs to come out of our love center. We will build a new world that way.

The balance has tipped and there are more people seeking Oneness and love than separateness. But the old way doesn't give up easy, hence we have leaders who are still wedded to using fear for power and control. I know it is scary, but let us not give in to fear. They only have the power we give them by joining them in fear. We don't have to cooperate with their craziness. We do have to assure that our own actions come from our being; our being of love. Any action taken out of fear gives them more power.

Let us get our feet firmly set in the ground, our minds at peace, our awareness centered on the loving vastness of Source and then we will see the appropriate action to take.

Love and Peace, Gregg