LIFE KEEPS COMING

It is not 11:30AM yet. It feels much later. I have been up since five. Insomnia is still with me but it is getting a bit better.

Yesterday I had my last doctor's appointment at First Light in Mora. The visit was with the oncologist who has been following my case since the beginning. He showed us the results of the PET scan and reiterated what he told me on the phone. He said the results of the PET scan were far better than he had hoped. He felt my situation bears watching for awhile but supports switching to the clinic here. He is going to retire soon. Yesterday was his 67^th birthday. He is a truly great man and doctor. I will miss him.

No more fifty mile trips to the doctor. It is bittersweet. I have become to love First Light, everybody is so familiar, friendly and competent. It is more bittersweet for Jamie as she used to be a nurse there and every few steps someone is saying, “Hi Jamie.”

We did some shopping in Mora. We miss the friendly merchants. Although we didn't intend it, it was a goodbye adventure. We won't have reason to visit Mora very often. I still bank there but I do all my business on line. We developed a lot of relationships living in a small town for 43 years.

We are developing some good relationships here in Sauk Rapids. Sauk Rapids, Sauk Rapids, Sauk Rapids................. I need to say that over and over, it is my hometown now. It has much better restaurants and many entertainment options and everything is close. My doctor is only five minutes away. We will embrace it. We will become People of the Rapids.

Life comes to us one day at a time. We may be the creators, but life, also, has a life of its own. Sometimes it surprises us. Sometimes it is delightful. Sometimes it is dreary. It keeps coming. Fighting it is futile. Peace comes with accepting it. No matter what is happening, accept it as your creation. Be in the moment, love what you can, your actions will be right actions.

When are we going to finally accept that love is the only solution. Whether it be our personal lives or the world stage it is obvious the solution is love. I know many who read this blog already agree with that premise. I know, world over, more people see love as the solution than anything else. The awakening is real and it is happening.

Yet when we experience the World as reflected by the media, we see nothing but turmoil and strife, a World driven by fear.

It troubles me when I see people of excellent heart taking a fighting stance against what they think is evil. We can't fight evil. We can't fight darkness. We can only bring light. Light a candle as they say. We have had many great teachers all through history who have given this message. Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi were two recent ones. Jesus Christ could be included as a recent one as his message has been kept alive, even though it seems like his adherents missed it. Read the Beatitudes.

The only thing missing in those who do not act with love is their connection with their own center which is love. They don't love themselves which gives their egos free reign. The ones who seem most corrupt don't believe in love and can't believe they are lovable or capable of love. They have given up on love and embrace power and wealth as the only way to feel satisfied. Of course there is no lasting satisfaction in power or wealth so they thirst for more and more hoping to be satisfied.

We need to see how pathetic their situation is and have some compassion. They can only manipulate and use us with our permission. The cleverest of these folks, down through the ages, have used fear to manipulate us. Divide and conquer has been their method. Create situations setting one group against another to control and exploit both.

We are at a place in history where we can end this charade. We must not use their tactics to fight back. That only strengthens them and weakens us. We must see how pathetic they are. We can see their disguise. We may abhor their behavior but see the loving being at their core. Like Gandhi and King we can resist with all we have but return only love. They are helpless to fight love.

It may sound difficult but if we practice in our personal lives we will learn. If we stay in the moment and only choose loving responses, we find we can deal with the crabbiness in our family members. We find ourselves automatically forgiving the rude shopkeeper realizing he must be having a bad day and his rudeness is not personal. By having only loving responses in our own lives, we see paradise dawning in our family and surroundings. We begin to see how we can apply this knowledge to the World Stage.

We must continue to work on ourselves. We can do it. Love can't lose.

Love and Peace, Gregg