HAPPY EASTER

It is snowing! We are supposed to get an inch or so this Morning and another three to seven inches tonight. The forecast is for snow today, tonight, and tomorrow and we could get over ten inches total. Well that is life on Planet Earth.

I had a few bales of hay delivered this Morning. I was hoping it would last until the snow was melted and the pasture was open, but with this new snow it doesn't seem likely. The forecast is for a cool April.

I have to admit, I am depressed. I would like to say I am above it all, that Nature's wiles do not bother me, but it would be a lie. We have people coming for Easter our driveway may need plowing. The normal high this time of year is 49, the normal low is 30. Tomorrow the high is forecast to be only 27 F. The high won't even get up to the normal minimum. There won't be any significant melting for a week. Ahhhhhh...................

Oh well, I will get over it. By the time I am done with this blog I may be back to my ebullient self.

Jamie and I usually have a quiet celebration on Easter. Three of my children are either entertaining in-laws or attending their functions. Naomi [a nurse] is working. Matt's wife [Chris also a nurse] is working. Matt will be here and Noah and his son Gregory, who is visiting from California, will be here. We will have a nice celebration.

Easter is a celebration of the light. The early Christian church super-imposed the holiday on older existing celebrations. It is no coincidence that it is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon of Spring. Of course, in the Christian religions, the Resurrection is also the bringing of the light.

Let us celebrate the bringing of the light this year. The light is increasing! The awakening is happening! It doesn't always look like it. Just like it looks like Spring is a long way off when I look out my window. [The snow is really pouring down right now] The awakening is real! Love, Joy and Peace will reign on this Earth soon.

I need to do some Easter shopping. Maybe I better go now. Who knows if I will be able to get out tomorrow. Our driveway is a tenth of a mile long.

HAPPY EASTER!

Love and Peace, Gregg

WE ONLY LACK LOVE

The clocks strikes eleven as I sit here wondering what I am going to write about. The grudging Spring caused me to order more hay. At the rate the sheep were eating it, they would run out on Easter, we couldn't have that. The pasture is under grazed and there will be plenty for the sheep to nibble on when the snow melts. What a spring this has been!

I struggle three times a week to write something meaningful. I don't want to repeat myself over and over. It puzzles me; do people really think that the world lacks anything but love?

After all the great teachers, Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu, Siddhartha, to name a few; there have been thousands. Are we still not listening!? Usually when a great teacher comes along we make a religion around them so we don't have to follow the teaching, interesting. It works.

Why have we found it so difficult to just love each other? Love is the only thing missing and that is the core teaching of all the great teachers.

The problem is that we were exploring separation. Separation from the Earth, from God and from each other. We only pretended to get the message from the Great Ones because we were too busy denying that anything resembling God exists. Religion became a way to maintain separation. The whole idea of God became corrupted by the very institutions that were supposed to be conveying the message.

Don't you think it is time to give up our pursuit of separation and accept our Oneness?

Don't you think that we can look around and realize all our problems have been created by lack of love? Can't we see that love will solve all our problems?

Many people are waking up to this truth. The people have outstripped their leaders when it comes to waking up. In community after community, in our own families, and in our circle of friends, there are people who have opened their eyes; they see that love is all there is. They yearn for the time when the people turn to the light and accept their Oneness. They know peace, love and joy are ours for the asking.

Let us be wise when we select our leaders. Let us select only those who know love is the only answer.


Love and Peace,   Gregg

SANITY

When I got up this Morning there was a fresh coating of snow; from my bedroom window it looked like a lot. Fortunately I soon discovered it was not more than a heavy dusting of super wet pellets. We don't need more snow. We need the foot we still have to shrink. It is 38.8 F right now so any future precipitation we may get today might be rain, I hope so.

The cranes, swans, ducks, geese, herons and robins are returning. I trust they know something we don't and Spring will arrive soon.

I thought I had a great idea for a blog last Night and now it it has faded away with the light of day.

I refuse to comment on the craziness in the world, except to say, both major parties in this country are berserk. They avoid the real issues and focus on phantoms. They do very little to bring people and countries together and they promote divisiveness. We don't need anymore saber rattling. We are all One people. Anger and finger pointing only plays into the hands of those who have been subjugating us for eons.

We live on a beautiful planet. Our Mother earth loves us and gives us everything we need. All that we have to do is love the Earth the way She loves us and we will have plenty for all. Our behavior has been abysmal. We have tortured and exploited our Mother rather that nurturing her as she nurtures us. Our pursuit of separation has left us with a bizarre world where some have great wealth and others have next to nothing. Why are we willing to condone that? Why are we willing to let an elite with power and wealth make the rules? Rules that make them richer and the rest poorer.

We have to stop letting those in power work us up into war frenzy. War and all forms of chaos only benefit those who already have the most.

We need to love our neighbor, that means everyone on this magnificent Earth.

I know the craziness is almost over. I know the cabal is losing its power to make war. I doubt very much if there will be another major war. But the main stream media is so nuts. I am very, very tired of the how the world is portrayed, and really, I don't watch the evening national news. I read the paper and listen to local news. The craziness seeps in, it is everywhere.

Hey! It is not too hard to love your neighbor. They might just love you back. Forget what you think, they think. We are all nuts; unless we are in unending bliss.

We can have the world we want. What if we shared just a few ideas: Mother Earth is here for all of us equally; we are all entitled to live on the Earth with abundance; we all have a right to be happy and our happiness is the greatest gift we can give to each other; we are free and we make all our decisions with love, so that our decisions never impinge on the happiness of our neighbor.

Would these ideas be so hard to follow? Wouldn't that be a good place to start? I know the world is evolving in the direction of these ideas. I can see it in the eyes of all I meet. We really do love each other. Aren't you tired of the craziness?

Yes the snow will melt. Spring will come. And Sanity will bloom in the world.

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

PATIENCE

Ah............ it is shaping up to be a marvelous day. On our trip to Cambridge yesterday we saw two Sandhill Cranes. They flew up right in front of our car. We also saw about five Robins. Spring must be here. There is very little open water, if any, in our neighborhood, I wonder what the Cranes eat when they arrive to a snowy world. I will look it up later. I always say things like that. Then I forget and it remains a mystery.

I am tired, Jamie had an appointment with the optometrist this Morning at 7:50 AM. I suppose I could have lulled in bed, but I didn't, I was up before seven and I am already ready for a nap.

I am having a little trouble typing. I gouged the end of my right index finger. It is not a serious wound but it doesn't like to tap away at the keyboard. Strange thing; I rarely get hurt doing my routine chores, but yesterday I took a chunk out of the back of my left hand and then a couple hours later I injured my finger. Neither hurt particularly, but they bled well. What is the chance of that happening? I almost never get hurt. I blamed it on the Mercury going retro-grade.

This year I am learning patience. We always use to say, “I don't mind snow in March, it is gone in two days.” Humph... this year we have snow on the ground that fell in November. It is diminishing though and I am learning patience. A snowstorm that was forecast for tonight and tomorrow is now predicted to go South of us. I am thankful for that.

I think I will rest my finger. I am sure it will be completely better by Monday. I need a nap anyway.

There is great light shining on the world. Things may look chaotic, but there is a new world forming under the rubble. Love wins out.

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

AN UPDATE

Another day on planet Earth. Another day of observing snow and ice out my window. It is the first full day of Spring, but up here it takes eight weeks of more Winter after the groundhog sees his shadow. Well I remember times when I was using the hose to water the animals by this time. A couple years ago we were eating out on the deck. We had several seventy degree days and a few days in the eighties that year. However the normal high for the day is only 44. We are actually just a little below average, it is just that there has been little break in the persistence of this weather, especially after the last snowfall.

Besides waiting for Spring meteorologically and in the geo-political world, Jamie and I are longing to see some improvement in her health. Jamie has given me permission to write about her health issues. I have mentioned it before but it is time for an update. About five years ago a situation arose where Jamie would experience dark moods. She had a brain scan done which showed there was some damage to the hippocampus similar to Alzheimers but not clear enough to make that diagnoses. She was told that it could be caused by sleep apnea which she has been dealing with. She will be having another brain scan done in a month or so to see if there are changes that can make a diagnoses possible.

Her condition is accompanied by low dopamine which causes her to peer through a dark cloud. She struggles every day to see things differently. It is especially painful because she has always been a very creative person, one could say a 'high dopamine' person.

She is by nature a scientist and she has not given up her search for a cure or at least some improvement. The traditional medical doctors, we have seen, have only drugs to offer which don't solve the problem. She has visited a natural path and chiropractor who is into non-traditional healing. These visits were valuable and gave information but no solution. They were better at saying what the problem wasn't than what the problem was. We had a visit at the Mayo Clinic which confirmed that the problem was some neurological damage.

Jamie is determined to get better and she has done extensive research through the internet. She has pursued every promise of raising her dopamine level. She has tried many vitamins etc. Sometimes there is a little improvement, but the crash comes. She maintains her optimism, but she has to fight to do it. This problem feeds into other spheres of our life. Jamie loves and needs a social life but she isn't able to pursue it right now. Interactions with people brighten her up. In a social situation a person may never guess this person is tormented by dark moods. One paradox is that social relationships are extremely helpful yet she has difficulty initiating them. The problem has created isolation which makes the low dopamine level worse.

The low dopamine doesn't limit her physical activity. In fact she attempts to use physical activity as a solution. When she isn't doing research via the computer she is busily cleaning out corners stored with forty years of living or cooking up future meals for the freezer.

For the most part I am able to stay optimistic and Jamie will not give up. Her research promises the neurological damage is reversible. We can only hope and pray and keep seeking.

We would appreciate any information that is out there.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LOVE

It is 42 F but Winter still has its icy grip. The last snowfall seemed to lock us into the Winter experience. I don't like being impatient, it is not exactly a virtue, but I have to admit I long to walk on pathways that are not slippery, I would love to roam around my yard without wading through a foot of snow, I am eager to see the ground again and watch the swelling buds. I know it will happen soon! I heard a Green Heron again this Morning. And If one looks closely, the buds are swelling.

The promise of Spring dangles out in front of us just like the promise of a new world. As I have said before I am not going to focus on the craziness that is extant. I have to believe it is passing just like the last dregs of Winter.

Yesterday I had a thought that opened my mind a little wider. I think it is something most people already know [I do too- but it hit me with greater power]. It occurred to me that like forgiveness, love is for us- not for the other. It came to me as a powerful message that when we love somebody we get more out of it than the person we love. It comes back to us in all kinds of ways and not necessarily from the beloved.

As I say, I might be preaching to the choir, as all you folks may realize this. I have long known that forgiveness freed me and [potentially] gave me more than the one forgiven. It freed me from whatever judgement I was making which is a huge gift. But love itself radiates back to the lover. Every time we feel love we raise our consciousness a degree. Perhaps, I am not poet enough or sufficiently articulate to express what I could see in that moment. Simultaneously, I felt a great freedom and could understand how love can change the world.

It is one thing to love the world abstractly, that is to wish everyone well. That is powerful in itself as it frees the world from any negativity in our individual minds. However, to actually feel love for everyone is powerful beyond calculation. We do have the power to change the world.

Another thing I could see in that moment was being in love [in that sense] was being in heaven.

That is my thought for the day.

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

YES! SPRING IS COMING!

I looked at the clock this Morning and said to myself, “It is really only 7:02 AM.” My body is still on Central Standard Time and my mind follows. I don't know that it is any different than it is every year. I have one clock that is permanently on Daylight Saving time. It is an automatic time keeper like the one on your computer, but it doesn't change with the Season. It is not its fault. It is the problem with the idiot doing this typing. It calls itself a Weather Station, I bought it so I could see the outside temperatures. It has everything; barometer reading, inside/outside temps, inside/outside humidity and it indicates when there is a change emerging in the weather. The problem is I can't understand the instructions for setting it up. I have had it for at least four years and I still haven't adjusted the time so it automatically changes. I find the instructions confusing. For example; a while ago the outside temperature wouldn't read. I looked up the trouble shooting guide, did the obvious like install new batteries; nothing. The directions recommended that I “recycle power to the station.” I didn't know what that meant. I pressed all the buttons I could find. Scratched my head a lot. Finally I tried removing a battery and reinserting it. Success! Wouldn't it have been easier to say that? Or at least “interrupt the power” rather than recycle” Any of my children could probably set the time thingy, I don't think to ask them.

Before I went to college I was an electronic technician. When I graduated with a BA in psychology I still wasn't sure which way life was going to take me; besides I had a family and we needed to eat. I applied for all kinds of jobs. Two of the jobs I applied for were 'scientific writing'; on paper I had the credentials. I wonder if it was doing stuff like this, rewriting instructions from translations? I have purchased articles that have had instructions that were obviously written by some translator, in some foreign country, who had very little grounding in how we used English.

Fortunately I was hired by a Social Service Agency which prepared me for graduate school and the beyond. I would not have been a good fit as a scientific writer.

Maybe I do have more difficulty dealing with the time change this year. The weather isn't changing much. The snow is still deep and despite above freezing days, it doesn't seem to shrink much. We still have a pile of snow over six feet high, about twenty feet wide, at the end of our driveway. We have never had that before. Until a couple weeks ago, I thought I was going to get by without plowing the driveway this year. It snowed frequently, but it was never more than five or six inches at a time and I could drive through and pack it down. That huge pile of snow is just from the last two times it snowed.

In the last few days the promise of Spring has been evident. I heard a Sandhill Crane, a Green Heron and we saw some Swans. Other folks report hearing Red Wing Black Birds, seeing Robins and hearing the Cardinals Spring song. I know Spring is coming!

Yet, there has been an unyielding quality to this late Winter. Much promise of Spring and not much delivery. I am tired of slippery pathways. They were pretty good most of the Winter, but with the thawing every day and the freezing every night, they are treacherous in the Morning. We have sprinkled chemicals on them, it last a couple days and they are slippery again. I have to carry water for about fifty yards for the sheep, this Morning I was wondering if I could keep my footing. I don't worry about breaking bones, I am not fragile, but I would have a hard time getting back on my feet.

I don't mean this to be rant against Winter. It is incredibly beautiful. I have been in awe of how gorgeous these last few days have been. And, yes, sometimes we are eating out on the porch this time of year, sometimes I am able to water the animals with the hose- this is one of those other times. I have experienced forty below zero in March and I have seen it in the eighties [it was 79 this day in 2012 and 80 on the 17^th in 2012]. We know spring is coming!

And we know the light is increasing on the Earth. We know people all over the globe are opening their eyes and realizing a different world is possible. The vast majority of people have always preferred to live in peace, love and joy, they just didn't believe it was possible. They now know it is possible and we no longer have to accept the dictates of a few who gain power and wealth through violence. We will soon emerge from the control of the dark and folks will experience what a loving world can be.

Perhaps, our struggling to emerge from the dark that is attempting to maintain control, is similar to Spring struggling to release itself from a grudging Winter.

In both cases the light cannot fail.

Happy Friday everyone! Look for the Light.

Love and Peace, Gregg

BEING II

Last night I wasn't tired so I decided to ignore daylight saving time and stay up until my usual bedtime which would now be 1:30 to 2. It shouldn't matter I am not on anybodies schedule. Yet, when Jamie got up about sevenish and the dog jumped off my bed, I only had about 5-1/2 hours sleep. I stayed in bed for another hour but it wasn't good sleep. Time as the clock reads is a powerful thing. I don't want to go through the rest of the year looking at the clock and seeing it read 11:43 and saying to myself, oh it is really 10:43.

When doing the chores it is a combination between the Sun time and our clock time. Towards the end of Winter I was giving water to the sheep at about 9 AM [CST]. With the increasing light it is time to go out earlier anyway, so I split the difference and go out at 9:30 [DST]. When we were on our seven year sabbatical, living off the land, I don't think we paid much attention to clock time. We did the chores when the Sunlight dictated. Time is one of the greatest illusions, yet we let it rule us.

I was going to write more about being. Wow! It is such a simple concept, but how do you write about it? The artist and creators among my readers experience it when they are totally focused and their minds are clear of all thought. They are just observing what they are creating. One doesn't have to be an artist to experience this, it can happen fixing a car or weeding a garden.

It happens when we are totally present. There is no past and no future. What some refer to as emptiness and others vastness. Our minds are absolutely peaceful. When we know peace we can know love.

When we are in the present, without past or future, we can appreciate the concept of Oneness; love is a given and all negativity drops away. Decisions made in this state of mind benefit all.

The goal of most religions, especially the Eastern traditions, is to reach this state of bliss using meditation and other exercises, physical and mental.

Regardless of spiritual belief, meditation is helpful and watchfulness becomes a necessity.

By watchfulness I mean paying attention to the mind; learning to become alert to when some form of negativity obscures our perception. When our egos are engaged our minds attract fear thoughts and thoughts of judgement. These thoughts may be based on feelings of unworthiness. The ego loves to be concerned about the future and fear of future possibilities is always there. We can declare an end to the suffering the ego causes. We can't take on the ego. We can't fight it. We won't win that battle. We can put it in its crib, pull the blanket up under its chin and tell it we don't need it just now.

We don't want to scare it into rebellion. No, no! We just want to quit taking its suggestions that the world is a scary place. Treat your ego as if it is a terrified child that needs reassurance that everything is okay; know that it speaks only of illusion that is based on fear.

Everyone of us has unresolved issues, perhaps we feel unworthy. We may regret behaviors we have exhibited. We may have difficulty forgiving ourselves or others. As long as these thing exist they are going to arise in our consciousness and they may take over our thought processes before we realize it. Watchfulness is catching this process before it becomes too embedded.

We are taught to give up the past. Some of us may be able to just do it. Most of us, even with the strongest of intent, find we need to go through a process because things keep coming back. We think we have forgiven ourselves, but then regret returns another day. If this happens about the same issue over and over, it helps to go deeply into it, feel all the feelings there are to feel. Look at it it in detail. Know that if the same thing happened today it would be different. We would not hurt ourselves or others like that again. Forgive.

We need to declare an end to suffering. A loving Universe does not desire it. Suffering is created by our separation. We often don't recognize the state of our mind as suffering when we are not at peace. It is. Love and Peace are our natural states. Let's talk about this more, perhaps Friday.

Love and peace, Gregg

IT'S WARMING UP!

The chickens must think it is Spring! Despite the fact that the temperature is still below freezing and there is almost a foot of snow everywhere they came out of their coop today and are cavorting along the pathways. It is a gorgeous day and there is a promise of melting today and the rest of the week. Yes, Spring will come!

Today is my departed Brother Garth's birthday. One time when we were having a delayed Spring like this year he complained, “It is usually warm enough on my birthday to have a picnic.” Of course this was a gross exaggeration. Although, infrequently it may have been warm enough on March 12^th for a picnic, it would be very rare. For the next ten years or so, I would remind him of his comment on his birthday. Then it came to pass; I think it was 1974, we had a wonderful warm stretch of weather in early March and Garth did have a big picnic at Columbia Park. It was a beautiful day and it almost made up for all those snowy birthdays.

March is our most significant transition month. A few years ago we were eating out on the deck in the middle of March. I have a feeling we are not going to experience Spring until April. I hope I am wrong.

I was going to write about my experiences attempting to have a clear mind. I will soon, in a blog I will title Being II. Today is not going to work out because we have company. Noah arrived last Evening. We had a marvelous time talking and listening to music by commanding Alexa. What an invention! Like something from Star Trek. Anyway Noah stayed the night and will be leaving soon. Then Jamie and I need to go to the Amish and do our regular Monday stuff.

There is much evidence of the awakening and the coming down of the cabal. Perhaps, we can touch on that on Wednesday, also.

Love and Peace, Gregg

BEING I

 

BEING. I want to write about being. There is no end to this subject. When it was said, “we need do nothing” what does that mean? One way of looking at it, is that that the light is increasing and will penetrate our consciousness regardless. That may be true but the idea of being is bigger than that. We don't know who we are and we won't begin to until we appreciate being.

Our spiritual teachers have cautioned us to focus on being not doing. Why because doing, that arises out of conflict, is largely wasted and can be destructive.. The most effective doing comes from a peaceful mind. When we act haphazardly out of fear or some driving emotion the behavior often has other effects than intended and may be cancelled out by another's doing. A similar drama takes place in our minds; we have many different random seeming thoughts that tend to cancel each other out [thank goodness]. It is only when we focus on a thought and add feeling does it have effect.

We are cautioned therefore to make all decisions out of love with a peaceful mind. The behavior [doing] will be automatic and have the desired effect.

We spend a great deal of time focusing on our doing. We regret things we do. We torture ourselves with guilt and recriminations. We are constantly assessing our behavior and worrying if we are all right. What if we spent the same amount of energy on how we are thinking? If our minds were clear of all negativity would we ever have need to judge our behavior?

Being is where it is at! When we know we are beings of love and by know it, feel it to our core, there won't be any negativity emanating from us. Our behavior will be loving because it can't be any other way.

Individually and collectively that might seem like a long way off. We are living in a world where everybody is taking positions of attack. Behavior is driven by beliefs absorbed with little consideration. This is greatly encouraged because conflict and decisiveness plays in to the hand of those in power. It is not as bad as it looks. There are actually more people who know it is crazy and will not cooperate.

Every time a person discovers his true being is love, peace and joy; that person becomes more powerful than hundreds of those wasting their energy haphazardly. That is why it is not as bad as it looks. Love cannot fail.

It helps if we accept the idea that we are intrinsically love and that we are just covered over with an ego created veneer we made to protect ourselves. During our long experiment with separation we developed very tricky egos that are alert for any danger. When they can perceive none they have to make something up and they do. It seems like it is impossible to disentangle ourselves from our egos but it isn't. It begins with the simple idea of intent. The wish to be free.

When we realize that the ego is not real, that it exist only as illusion, we see that it is not something to fight but something to give up like an addiction.

For the majority of us it is a process. There are a few who have sudden realizations that are deep and lasting. Most of us have to wear away our craziness, but we have break throughs. We see the light often enough to keep us going. We know the end of the tunnel is nearing.

It is easier to believe we are already what we are trying to achieve, than trying to attain some high ideal. Many of us have discovered through meditation and other means that we are love at the center of our beings. We just have to discover and unwrap ourselves. We are already what we need to be.

I have learned some things in my quest to have a clear mind and I will share them with you in forthcoming blogs.

I don't know if I had a blog titled BEING before so I will title this BEING I . There will be II and maybe a III.

HAPPY FRIDAY! CELEBRATE THE LIGHT!

Love and Peace, Gregg

WE NEED DO NOTHING?

We are weathering the storm. An interesting storm indeed! It was much delayed and when I went to bed Monday night about Midnight, it appeared that there were several inches of snow but I could probably drive through it. Yesterday Morning it was obvious we were snowed in. We didn't get out until last night. Our driveway wasn't plowed until 9 PM. They were very busy and since I am one of those folks that don't need to get anywhere I am not high on the list. I was eager to get out though, and I retrieved two days of mail and went to Ogilvie to buy a paper.

I don't know what the official total of the snowfall is, I tried measuring it in a flat stretch between the house and the barn and it varied from five to ten inches; between our house and the chicken coop it was over two feet in one place. With the storms beginning, the wind howled from the South for several hours, then it came from the East and the snow increased; at some point, it switched to the Northwest and I think the wind came from there for most of the Night. It created an unusual drift pattern Most areas around the house received over a foot of snow.

It was very heavy snow. Jamie shoveled a path from our front door to where visitors park and I shoveled the path to the chicken coop. The snow was so heavy I had difficulty lifting a shovelful, if I went down to the full depth. Heart attack snow they call that. But it wouldn't happen to me, I am too slow.

The new snow covered up the last of my big bales of hay. There wasn't much anyway and I doubt if the sheep will paw down through that heavy snow to get what is left. I have a few bales in the barn and I hope to get more next week.

When I awoke the Sun was pouring through the Window. It was indeed a promise of a beautiful day! I was surprised when I looked at the thermometer and it was only 5.6 F. I didn't expect it to get that cold. It was beautiful doing the chores though, the Sun is so hot this time of year, one doesn't notice the cold. It is 25.8 F now. I doubt there will be much melting today.

I won't comment on the state of the world. It is too crazy and it is unraveling the way it needs to. We need to avoid looking at it so we don't inadvertently add to the divisiveness and chaos.

We know what to do. We know all creation begins in our own minds. We know if we want peace, we must find peace in our minds. We know, that in one way or another, we out picture the content of our minds. We don't want to share more craziness with the world. Indeed the world has enough.

We bring peace to the world by sharing our peace.

It seems so simple. Why don't we all be peaceful? We all struggle with the idea that we are separate. We all have an ego that is dedicated to our separation. Our egos are alert to exploit the tiniest fear, the tiniest difference, the ego loves to weigh and measure, and find you or the other lacking.

We have been on a journey of awakening. At an intellectual level many of us know we are ONE. We have searched and searched, we have followed many a sinner and saint. We have looked into many religions and spiritual paths. Our egos have been delighted in finding knew ways to make judgements. As soon as we think we are more spiritual than A or B we go back several places.

How can we find enlightenment? What do we need to do? Do you believe, we need do nothing? We only discover that after arduously trying and trying. We eventually discover the only enemy is ourselves, our egos. Oh, how they love separation.

We need to know we are growing and learning. We are turning toward the light. Look around. We will note there are many loving expanded beings who could not have a conversation about spirituality. I am not saying we shouldn't explore spirituality; for many of us it is part of our journey. We need to know when it has enhanced our separation rather than cured it. We need to, be alert to, when the ego tickles us with any idea that we are better [or worse.]

I would like to help you give up your ego. I am a very imperfect teacher. I am usually peering through mine not around it. I have my ego free moments. We all do. We will eventually have heightened awareness to the egos contribution. Be confident it will happen. Don't try so hard. Focus on loving everything and everybody around you [especially yourself].

The light is increasing. We can't help but be successful. Hey! We know love is all there is!

Love and Peace, Gregg

AWAITING THE STORM

It is 1:30 PM and I am just beginning to write. There is a back story. For the last three days we have been anticipating a major Winter storm. We expected to wake up to blizzard conditions. I set up everything with the animals so if I couldn't do the chores this Morning they would be okay. We got up this Morning there was only a thick dusting of snow. Jamie checked out ACCU Weather it appeared that the snow was delayed until after 10 AM. We decided to chance a trip to the Amish and I would blog later. We got back about an hour and a half ago, but I got bogged down with some other things. I just went out to the chicken coop. I thought I would give them a chance to go out since the blizzard wasn't happening. They gave us three eggs. The wind is roaring from the South and it is 40 F. I would guess the storm missed us, except for there are snow pellets showering down occasionally. It must be cold aloft. The storm is still being predicted.

The wind has picked up [now from the East] and it is beginning to snow in earnest.

I am sorry this blogging isn't going to work out. It is time for my nap.

I will just await the storm [a real one]. We are all awaiting the metaphorical storm. Perhaps, there will be more on that Wednesday.

In the meantime In my older brother Bruce's words, “Be good to yourself.”

Love and Peace, Gregg

THE INCREASING OF THE LIGHT

Friday! Wow, I can't get used to how time flies for me. As one gets older time goes faster and that has been commented on forever. I think what I am experiencing is in addition to that. I wonder how others may be experiencing time. I realize it is all an illusion. This Winter seems to crawl by. Time doesn't fly by when I am waiting for Jamie to finish a doctors appointment.

The temperature is flying up today. When I got up it was only 8 F, now it is 43.5 about 4 hours later. It could hit fifty today. That would be great! The snow is still very deep. Still measured in feet not inches. Perhaps not much more that a foot, still when one is eager for Spring that is a lot.

I feel some underneath excitement. It feels like some good things are about to happen. The last few times I have been to town we have run in to people we haven't seen for awhile and they have had interesting stories. Monday we were driving through town on the way back from the Amish. We didn't have any shopping to do so we were just going to run in to get a paper at the gas station. In the middle of the intersection, I changed my mind and decided to go to the grocery store. [Jamie wanted to pick up an item anyway] When we got there we immediately met people with interesting, exciting stories. We met five people in all, four of which we hadn't seen in a while, all had stories to tell. On the way home it occurred to me this was guidance. The impulse to go to the grocery store was sudden and irresistible. Yesterday, I dropped Jamie off for a doctor's appointment. When I went to pick her up I said hi to this person in the parking lot, she looked at me and said, “I play Word Games with you.” Then I recognized her as someone we met at a mutual friend's house last Summer. We have been playing Words. Oh, and I met two other people I hadn't connected with in a long time.

In the sixties and seventies folks talked about 'vibration' the energy that was being experienced. That is what it seems like, as if there has been an increase in positive energy. Some of these last few days I have dreaded doing the chores because of the deep snow. But everything has gone amazingly smoothly. The timing of the snow plow man's coming. The timing of visitors. Everything seems exquisitely timed. I am able to do the chore with unusual grace and ease. [for an old fart anyway.]

Another way of putting it, is an increase in light. I see it everywhere. We haven't looked at the Evening news in over a week; what a blessing that has been. It creeps in. We can't completely escape it. All that I can say is, the world looks a lot better, when we keep our noses out of the boob tube news.

The World as we have known it has to collapse. There will be much upending of the establishment. It will begin with the financial market and ripple [or it may be a roaring wave] through the rest of societies' structures. Whatever, doesn't really serve the people, must go. That is good!

It is time we imagined a World made of Love in earnest. Imagine everybody's highest interest to be of service. It is getting easier and easier to sweep our minds of negativity and keep them clear. I will have some ideas on that subject Monday.

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg