Wednesday, February 28, 2018

THE SNOW WILL MELT


I have been up and down numerous times. I sit at the computer for a few minutes then jump up to go outside or look out the window. It is not exactly restlessness. At least, not restlessness in an uncomfortable manner. I want to be part of this glorious day. It is incredibly Sunny and 38.3 F. It is incredibly beautiful. All that I can do though, is watch the snow melt. It is still very deep and cannot be easily navigated. I took a trip to the barn to make sure my sheep had hay in the manger. Yes, I was able to get into the door with a lot of shoveling and chiseling away of ice. I managed to get the door open just far enough to squeeze through.

This snowstorm has been quite an adventure. This old body was up to the task of all the shoveling I had to do. It is nice to know I can still do it in my 84th year on planet Earth. However, I am happy to see the snow melt. I turned the calendar over so I can glance up at March. That is our most spectacular Month. It can be forty below zero or eighty above. We can have blizzards or budding trees. After this February, I am looking forward to a kind March.

That could be a segue into how I am looking forward to a sane world; but, I have done that and done that. I don't know how folks could get by day to day if they didn't have reason to think that the light would eclipse the dark. If I couldn't see the light emerging in the bright hearts around me I would be very discouraged. Fortunately I am able to see love shining from most of the people I see.

The invitation to be afraid, that an outcome will be less than we want, is very strong. Those committed to maintain power are unceasing in their attempts to polarize and divide. They enhance the division on every issue and the polarization that has been created is phenomenal.

Remember this is a contest between light and dark. In our efforts to bring about positive solutions we must avoid contributing to the dark. The dark is not going to win in any case but we prolong the battle by indulging in negativity. It must be out of fear that we use demonization and other forms of negativity. If we were sure we were right and love would win out, we would have no need for negativity.

I think graciousness is what I am not seeing. We can hang on to our beliefs and raise our light high. We can disagree with the other side. We can argue for our ideas, however, we don't need to lose our graciousness. We are not going to convince anyone of our rightness if we cannot be gracious in the process.

Graciousness in an automatic response when we are loving. Again this is a contest between light [love] and dark. We need to stay centered. We know we are love. We know everybody else is, too. Those, that don't yet know they're love, won't discover it by being attacked.

I know it can be difficult. I get myself sucked into negativity frequently. [Ask Jamie, I lacked graciousness in a discussion we had last night]. We must recognize it and forgive ourselves. We are all learning. We cannot fail. Love is blossoming in each of us and in the world.

I have to wash dishes then I am going outside and watch the snow melt.

Love and Peace, Gregg


Monday, February 26, 2018

WINTER'S SWAN SONG


I hope this last snowstorm was Winter's swan song. It looks like it might have been. The forecast is for high temps above freezing all week.

Yesterday I shoveled paths to the chicken coop and the car parking area. I have a snowblower in the garage but I haven't needed it all year. We just got increments of two or three inches with every storm and just packed it down. It never seemed enough to take out the snowblower. It usually sits on the front porch in the Winter. It was a toss-up whether it was worth wading through a foot or more of snow for 50 yards to the garage or just shovel.

Today I have been busy shoveling snow from in front of my barn door. The snow slid off the roof and it was easily three foot deep in front of the door. When I got down to the ground I discovered the bottom of the door was frozen in a couple of inches of ice. Apparently it was warm enough previous to the snowstorm to cause snow to melt off the roof and freeze the door in place. I chipped for about one half hour and decided a chemical solution might be better. I feed the sheep outside with big bales and I don't go in the barn every day. When I do have reason to go into the barn every day this doesn't get to be this big a problem. I have always been able to chisel the door free in a few minutes. The barn is a hundred yards from the house and unless we are lambing or have some other concern I don't go in every day.

I need to get into the barn to access some hay. The big bales are running out and my sheep are going to start looking at me with jaundiced eyes if I don't have some hay for them.

Despite being blanketed in deep snow there is definitely a promise of Spring in the air. It has been a beautiful snow experience. It is a spectacular scene. I almost, but not quite, don't want to see the snow disappear from the tree branches. Spring beckons. February wanes and anything can happen in March.

I am not prepared to talk about the geo-political or national realities extant. The world is nuts. However, I see hope behind the extreme polarization and the division and chaos that it causes. We need to resist all attempts to herd us into 'we' or 'they' camps. Truth is always love.

Let us keep our heads high, our feet grounded in the good earth and open our hearts to find love for all sides. Good things are on the horizon.

Love and Peace, Gregg

Friday, February 23, 2018

WILL WINTER BE OVER?


A new fresh snowfall blesses our landscape. It is indeed beautiful even though we are eager to see bare earth again. Our snowfall has come in small increments, the deepest about five maybe six inches. In any case I have been able to drive through it and pack it down so in a few days I have a hard packed snow driveway. It is nice except in the Spring, if it melts suddenly it is a mess. This year we have had enough above freezing temperatures that the snow pack wasn't going to be a big problem; one of the reasons is that the snow has been relatively light and hasn't contained a great deal of moisture.

Then there was last Night. It was still pretty light, but also pretty deep. I could drive through it. The end of the driveway was tricky because of the snowplows that passed by on the road. I called my plowman [who is also my hay man] and told him I had to give up the contest to see if I could get through the year without having it plowed. My driveway is 1/10th of a mile long, about a city block. If we were not having visitors tomorrow I would have chanced it.

For some reason this Winter has been a little harder to endure than most. It was never horribly cold, but persistent. There have been few days in a string that were above freezing. The Minneapolis/St Paul area had 26 Nights below zero F so far this Winter. That is almost twice as many as the year before, which was about average. We have substantially colder Nights, we must have had 40 plus Nights below zero. For me, there is drain on my energy, some kind of tension that comes with the prolonged cold. It is probably aged based as I don't remember it bothering me when I was younger. I note that many people don't seem to mind. I have heard many folks praise the Winter.

I think it is also because, I so look foreword to a sane world, when were done with our little experiment with separation and remember we love each other. We are in the dark ages. We have taken separation to the nth degree. Can we imagine people on one side of this marvelously, beautiful Earth actually planning the annihilation of folks on the other side? Can we imagine in every large city in the world there are people who live in opulence with fabulous wealth while others are hungry, or are homeless, or without medical care, or are dying on the street? How is that possible?

Have we made separation a virtue? I think that is the reason for my long Winter. I am so eager to see sanity and the appreciation of Oneness to emerge. I see it all around me. If I articulate properly, everyone I meet would agree that we could have a sane world. We all want to live in peace. We all want to feel love. We all want to love. We can see that a new world is emerging on the horizon. What do we do in the meantime? How do we make waiting easier? Ah....... we can learn to love what is in front of us. I can celebrate the cold and snow instead of grousing about it. We can forgive everything and love everything. We can make every moment paradise. [Actually, I don't mind that much knocking ice out of the chicken bucket, it is the thinking about it, the anticipation. I love the feeling of mastery when I can successfully deal with these amazing Winters].

We each have the individual struggle of bringing love into our own life and we help the collective decision to know and appreciate our Oneness every time we feel love in our hearts. We need to avoid looking at the crazy world. We cannot advance our goal by being absorbed by the nutty antics of the Cabal. They are desperate to hold on to power. These latest shootings are their attempts to heighten fear and create chaos, which is their means of maintaining power and put off the coming together of the people. They can't stop us. We are connected at the heart. We do love each other. The violence is not Ours. Love is Ours.

We will bring peace on Earth! We will know the equality of every human being. We will experience our greatest joy being of service to each other. We will realize that we all have creative abilities. Let us just turn to each other today and say, “I love you and would like to be of help to you in anyway I am able”.

Our experiment with separation is over.

Happy Friday! Celebrate Oneness with all humanity!

Love and Peace, Gregg

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

A SCHEDULE CHANGE


I am sitting down at the keyboard before 9 AM because our cleaning lady, who usually comes every other Thursday, called yesterday and asked if she could come today. I haven't done the outside chores yet, there is not much, checking on things and giving the sheep and chickens water. It is still below zero, perhaps by the time I get out there it will have nudged above. It is supposed to get up to 20 F today. I am sure it will, the Sun is blazing and it looks like a beautiful day, sitting in here looking out.

Fifty-five years ago today my oldest Son Stuart came into the world. He has blessed us. I have children in ages from 57 to 38. Amazing for a young man like me.

I better get at my chores. I only have a little over an hour before the cleaning lady arrives.

I will be here Friday.

Love and Peace, Gregg

Monday, February 19, 2018

TIME


It snowed about an inch this Morning and it is supposed to start up again early this afternoon. We need to take our usual Monday trip to town and the Amish a little earlier so we can do it between snowstorms. I don't think we will get a great deal of snow but we may have to get our driveway plowed.

Time flies for me. Weeks go by like days did a few years ago. I am always surprised when another Sunday rolls around because it seems like only a day went by. Yet................. this Winter. How come that is not going fast? How can weeks fly by but Winter last forever? Ah......... the illusion of time. I remember Summers when I was a child that lasted forever. Since I have been an adult I try to remember to live every Summer day. What a waste to be bored on a Summer day.

I know time is flying and it soon will be spring again. My chickens know it. They laid three eggs yesterday. In a couple of weeks it will be seven or eight a day. In a month they could be laying up to a dozen a day. I have up to 25 hens. I don't know the exact number. I have an old hen rest home. Some are beyond egg laying age and others lay every other or every third day. It is okay with us. They lay more eggs than we can use for about nine months out of the year. They served us, we will serve them in their old age. Chickens are old at five or six but we have had hens that lived to be ten. When we were living off the land those chickens made wonderful chicken and dumplings, but now that we live in the lap of luxury, It doesn't occur to me.

I can't live for tomorrow though, I want to be here now, this moment. I can love the snow. It is beautiful. All aspects of life are beautiful.

We have an extra errand to run this Morning. Our coffee maker went on the fritz. It acted like it was sluggish so we ran some vinegar through it. I went to check it and there was nothing in it. All the vinegar went into the kitchen rug. I don't see how that is happening or how it is leaking. I am going to run some water through it and watch to see, just out of curiosity. We need to look for a new coffee maker.

It is snowing again. We better get on our way. I love adventures but I don't want to drive in a snowstorm. I don't have anything very profound to say anyway, except to live in the moment, love every moment and if you can't love it, forgive it [the moment, yourself or both].

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

Friday, February 16, 2018

LET US CELEBRATE THE LIGHT

 
We had two days of above normal temperatures. It was over 40 F Wednesday and about 40 yesterday. That was a surprise; Wednesday's temps were predicted but it was supposed to be cooler yesterday. Maybe we were in a hot spot. The chickens loved it, they frolicked outside as if they were celebrating the end of Winter.

We were back to below zero weather this Morning. When Jamie got up it was -7 F when I arose a little later it was -6.6 F. I know it was 40 late in the afternoon. A near fifty degree decline. We are in for more roller coaster weather. It is 13.8 now and it supposed to get to twenty today and thirty tomorrow and back below zero Tuesday with a quantity of snow in between.

But today it is gorgeous! It has been a beautiful Morning! Sunny and bright. It was still below zero when I did my chores but it didn't seem cold. There are no sustained cold temperatures in the forecast for the rest of the month. I am dreaming of a warmer March.

I was looking at a video this Morning titled “The Power of Visualization” by Gregg Braden. I posted it on Facebook. He gives scientific examples of how our very being impacts everything around us. The evidence is clear that our thoughts affect our surroundings in profound ways. The proposition is that we don't have to be helpless in our dealings with a crazy world. Our very visualization of the world we want will help bring it about.

I have read the scientific evidence about how our thoughts create before, but Gregg Braden does a nice job of putting some studies together in a convincing manner. I think a lot of us need to see reinforcement of this idea. We may be convinced that our positive and negative thoughts affect our own lives; if we pay any attention it is obvious. We are less clear about how we affect everything.

Of course this has been a theme I have been promoting. We have the world we create with our thoughts and beliefs. I don't have any doubt that Love is winning over fear but we can help by keeping our noses out of the idiot box, especially the evening news.

What is that saying, “Don't try to change the world; change how you see the world.” If that is somebodies quote I apologize for not having a reference. I read it a long time ago and I don't remember where. I know it is an idea from “A Course in Miracles” which encourages us to look upon a forgiven world. We need to forgive the world its craziness and visualize the world we long for. If we can free ourselves of all thoughts that are not love, we will 'see'.

Let us choose to look upon the Light. We do not have to see into the dark. Let us resist all invitation to peer into the darkness.

Love and Light beckons us. We can create a new world.

HAPPY FRIDAY! LET US CELEBRATE THE LIGHT.

Love and Peace, Gregg

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY


I think of Valentines Day as the day when Spring makes its first attempt to break through Winter's grasp. The attempt is often feeble, but I look for it. It rarely is a magnificent push like today's amazing weather. To think it may actually get into the forties, remarkable after such a string of below zero nighttime temperatures; and Sunshine too! Wow Happy Valentines Day everyone!

I have looked at the forecast and I know there is more cold weather in the near future, but it may not be as persistent. We know Spring will come.

I finally took my own advice and am no longer looking at the Evening news. I thought I was tough but not that tough. What a dismal world it portrays. Just like we know Spring will come, we know in our hearts that a new world is emerging. The old world, dominated by those who seek wealth and power, is waning swiftly. I know it is hard to see, just as it is hard to see Spring emerging on one of our cold dreary days. It is!

We will have a geo-political event like todays gorgeous weather that will reassure us that what we hope for is really true. It will happen!

In the meantime don't look to the main stream media for evidence of the awakening. The MSM is heavily controlled, there are some glimpses of light coming through, but it is not worth wading through the garbage to see them.

The folks that have controlled us for eons are losing their power because they have no actual power of their own. They only have the power we have given them by being afraid. More and more people have been coming to this realization and we reached the tipping point some years ago where more people embrace love than fear. Love is infinitely more powerful than fear, so at that point the cabal was doomed.

The struggle between love and fear exist in each of us. The more every one of us, reaches for the love that resides in us, the more we light up the world. Our love has been growing and growing. Our light will eventually sweep away the dark and the MSM with it.

Valentines Day is a good day to acknowledge and honor the love that is all of us. Let us keep in mind today to make all of our decisions with love. Let us only dwell on thoughts of love. When we find our minds clouding with what is not love, we can ask for help from a loving Universe. Help is there. Ask your guides to sweep away all that is unloving from your mind. It works!

The Light is growing! The Light is bright!

Happy Valentines Day!

Love and Peace, Gregg

Monday, February 12, 2018

LIFE HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN


Wow! It is 11:30AM and I am just starting to write. I don't know what I have been doing all Morning. We are emerging from a cold spell. It was -11 F when I got up, it has warmed up to 7.5 and we are not supposed to get much below zero for the next week. Wednesday is supposed to be above freezing!

I had a great time Saturday night. There is a back story. Jamie had been planning on going to a special program in Mora, that is part of a local festivity called the Vasaloppet. It has been held annually for 46 years and the main feature is a ski race that has international participation. The program she wanted to attend was a comedic revue featuring singing and various skits. We knew some participants.

I didn't want to go. I don't know why. Perhaps it was the cold. Maybe I am getting to be an 'old stick in the mud'. On Friday I didn't want to go. Saturday came and we got Acorn TV and I could imagine staying home by my cozy wood stove, binge watching British television programs; then I really didn't want to go. I had made a commitment the week before and Jamie was eager to go so I kept my reluctance to myself.

Was I glad I went! It was a fabulous show. The singing talent was sparkling! The comedic talent amazing! I haven't been so entertained in a very long time. These were all local people. The idea that we have among our neighbors and friends, folks that have the talent to entertain us so beautifully, is so wonderful. I shouldn't be surprised, as I have wrote before, that I thought every community had the people that could provide better entertainment than our televisions. And it is so wonderful to get out among your neighbors, I talked to people I haven't seen for a long time. Most of us live a pretty isolated existence, our TVs and other technologies keep us separated. An e-mail or text message is not the same as rubbing elbows.

Two lessons here: one, it reinforced, what I knew but needed a reminder, that we have all the talent locally for our entertainment and edification. Two, we can't predict life by our momentary perceptions. There is an adage, “life has a life of its own.” I don't discern its full meaning, but in this case, I really thought I didn't want to go and my only driver was I didn't want to disappoint Jamie. Here, I discovered, that life had a surprise for me. My reluctance to go was not guidance. [I am not sure guidance ever comes in the form of a negative]

We don't always know what we really want.

On that note I have to quit. I haven't washed the dishes yet or broken my fast and we have to take our usual Monday trip to town and the Amish for milk.

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg


Friday, February 9, 2018

THINKING FOR OURSELVES


The cold continues, 10 below zero F when I got up. This has been quite a little cold snap. It even fools the weatherman. I have deep respect for the meteorologist that predict weather. They are usually within a degree of being correct, however in the last few days they have underestimated how cold it would get. Despite the nippiness it is quite nice outside. There is no wind to speak of and the Sun is marvelous and bright. I went out in my shirtsleeves to do the chores. I just have to carry water out to the sheep and chickens and I am not out long enough to get cold. If the forecast is correct we only have three more nights of below zero temperatures.

The Cabal is coming down, but it is hard to tell who the good guys and the bad guys are. There are people from both major parties that support the Cabal. We are going to be surprised at what is revealed. We have to be careful we are not blinded by our loyalty to our group.

It is time for tribal thinking to be over. We don't need a tribe for protection anymore. We have been herded into camps, whether they be religious, political, ethnic, gender, etc. We are told what to think and what to believe. We are right and those in all other camps are wrong. We are encouraged to demonize those in the other camps.

Truth will never lie in a set of beliefs. Truth is outside of tribal thinking. We need to be wary of any proposition that encourages judgment. The angry finger pointing and recriminations rarely lead to truth.

We are waking up and the dark ones are losing their influence. They have stayed in power by encouraging division. They want us to stay stuck in our tribal thinking. After-all, they have managed to amass enormous wealth and power by encouraging tribal thinking. It has been their mode of operation for thousands of years. They love war and all chaos that leads to war.

I know. I know. It is difficult to refrain from anger and disgust at this crazy world; but remember we are seeing, via the main stream media, and that is not the real world. It supports the Cabal and encourages the very fear engendered emotions that have caused the problems in the first place.

The only emotions that are going to defeat the Cabal are those engendered by Love. Darkness is only eliminated with light.

We can hold our love light high and do it with great energy without judging anybody else. We are assisting the emerging of a new world. That new world is made of Love and Forgiveness.

We are individuals who add up to One. The subgroups that are in between the individual and the One, e.g. family, clan, tribe etc. are not inherently negative. In fact they have great benefit. They have become a negative force by the manipulations of those who would use them by encouraging us to think we are different and better than those in that other group.

We need to regain our sovereignty as individuals. We can love our groups without adopting the groupthink that goes with it.

Yes! We are ONE. To realize that, we need to pull our minds out of tribal thinking and love ourselves as individuals.

Happy Friday! Time for celebration!

Love and Peace, Gregg

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING OURSELVES


It is a beautiful Winter day. The Sun is shining bright and it is 12.9 F. It was below zero again when I got, up almost -7, it will be nice when our temperatures return to normal. The normal high for today is 27 and the low is 10. Those figures represent an area somewhat South of here, but our normal should be within a few degrees.

I have been feeling a little blah lately. A vague feeling that things were not right. It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop. I thought it might be the weather. I thought it might be the crazy world. I thought it could be because a friend of ours died who was my age [a year and a half younger]. I have been conscious of my mortality lately.

However yesterday when I was doing one of my mini-meditations, I was aware that I was not getting to that peaceful place. I was aware that I was judging myself. I was finding myself unworthy. In a few minutes I realized why. I was judging myself for some jerky behavior. I won't go into it now. It was just garden variety domestic nuttiness.

Again I was reminded of how powerful love is and how we struggle when we deprive ourselves of it. Self judgement blocks the love we feel for ourselves. When we don't love ourselves we cannot fully love others. We attract negative thoughts about ourselves and project them on those around us. We are doing a disservice to ourselves and the whole world when we don't love ourselves.

When I realized what I was doing and that the Universe did not judge me, I was able to let the light in. I, again, found myself bathed in the light of the Universe. When I say the Universe I mean 'all that is'. The totality that is Love. What ever word you have for it; God, Allah, The Great Spirit, are some words that might work. There are many more. Man's concept of the Universe and his attending religions have loaded the words for God with both negative and positives. I am comfortable with just using the word God but many of my readers might not be.

In any case this experience reinforced the important notion that we must love ourselves. When we realize we are a little off, we need to pay attention to how we are feeling about ourselves. If we need to forgive ourselves, we can. We don't have to be perfect to love ourselves. That is what forgiveness is for!

Everything that is wrong with the world starts with our not loving ourselves. If we loved ourselves we would demand a peaceful world. We would expect to be treated with dignity. If we loved ourselves we would readily forgive ourselves our quirks and errors and forgive them in all we meet. The more we hold ourselves in esteem the more we do our neighbor.

If we loved ourselves we would not allow people to divide us up into camps that alienate and judge each other. The light of the world is increasing. It is bringing us together. The thing we need to resist is the division and isolation caused my judgement. Those attempting to cause chaos and division cannot win. The collective mind of humanity has chosen love. We are coming together.

Each and everyone of us can help by choosing to love ourselves. We need to treat ourselves with respect, then we will respect all others. We are like lights that are turning on. We are waking up the world one person at a time. We are shining brighter and brighter.

When we are getting our picture of the world from the main stream media we only see what those who are attempting to hold on to power want us to see. The world is really quite different. Check it out with your neighbors and friends. We have opted for Peace. Let the Love shine in. Love, Joy and Peace is ours for the asking.

Love and Peace, Gregg

Monday, February 5, 2018

A MONDAY IN FEBRUARY

 
I am tired. I didn't get to bed until about 2:30AM. I watched the Jimmie Fallon show after the Superbowl then I read some things on the internet. I don't know how it got that late. I did have some trouble with my computer. I spilled a drop of water on my keyboard. Just a tiny drop. It landed on the A. I tried to write an e-mail and it wouldn't print the As. I thought it was kind of hilarious so I sent it anyway. But then the computer started making strange noises and it wouldn't accept commands from the keyboard. I shut it down.

I was planning on sleeping in until at least 8:30. I woke up thinking about the computer and wondering if something bad happened and I was, also, concerned about getting the living room stove going because it was -11F when I went to bed. So I was out of bed with only five hours sleep. I will survive.

I am getting tired of this below zero temperatures at night. It would be okay if it warmed up during the day, but it has been staying in the single digits. I don't mind the cold on my body in the least. Hey, I don't love it, but I don't mind it much. What I mind is being concerned with pipes freezing and the added chores of hauling wood up every day and having the chicken water and sheep water freeze solid.

Well there was no damage to my computer. What ever got wet dried overnight. I shouldn't gripe when I have an almost perfect life. I do have a perfect life.

This is going to be a short blog. Perfect life or not I can't think of anything to write when all I want to do is nod off to sleep. I need to take a little nap before we take our Monday trip to the Amish and then to town.

Love and Peace, Gregg

Friday, February 2, 2018

BE HAPPY


We got a stretch of cold weather ahead of us. I believe the forecast is for four days in a row of below zero temperatures starting Saturday Night. This morning it was -11.4 F, tonight we are getting a reprieve and it is staying above zero. Actually it has been a pretty nice Morning, until a few minutes ago the Sun was shining brightly.

On Fridays I have several things on the internet I like to read and I have been passing my time looking out the window that fronts my North pasture. The sheep just wandered by. They have their hay in the South pasture but they come over here to see if I threw anything out to the chickens. We give our kitchen scraps to the chickens, although they don't get much, the sheep are gluttons and they will eat almost anything. These particular sheep are more into garbage than other sheep I have had. Maybe they need more minerals.

Another birthday in our family, Noah our youngest son will be forty on Sunday. It is hard to believe. Time flies when we are having fun. Our oldest child Laura will be fifty-eight in June. How can a young man like me have children that age? I told Laura, in jest, not to tell me when she reaches sixty. Of course I would be proud and feel fortunate to be around when my children are old enough to retire. I have had a great life and it only can get better!

Oh! I cannot believe the craziness in the world. I know that most of it is created by those who are trying desperately to hang on to power. Underneath the craziness some good things are happening. I know the awakening is happening on schedule and I am sure the very craziness we witness helps some people open their eyes.

Every time I go through a bad patch myself I realize how painful it is to ourselves and others to be unloving. The greatest gift we can give to the world is to be happy. Our happiness depends on our loving ourselves. All judgement of others comes from judgements we are making of ourselves. We project our feelings, about ourselves, on others. Especially the judgements we are making of ourselves we don't want to own up to.

Yet we can't make this too complicated. We are works in progress. We must accept ourselves as we are and love ourselves warts and all.

Let us keep our eyes away from the crazy world and look at the people around us. They love us, warts and all! We love them. Look for the beauty that surrounds us. Look for things to celebrate. We are just a thought away from being in paradise.

When we clear our minds from the usual detritus, what do we experience? Is it possible we are happy underneath our silly thoughts? Is it possible our default setting is happiness?

At any moment we can open our hearts and minds and let a universe of love in. Doesn't that feel good!? We can let the illusion of our separation end. We can discover who we really are. Look for love in whomever you meet, you will help them see it in themselves.

BE HAPPY! Have a Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg