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
I'm trying..
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