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 1/10^th 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