LOOK FOR THE LIGHT

The clock just chimed high noon I guess it is time to begin blogging. It took me a long time to get used to the word blog, it is a strange sounding name for an ongoing essay. I wonder where it comes from. I will look it up, but not at this moment. What will I write today? I was thinking of taking a hiatus from blogging, but then I probably won't. I like writing. For those folks who find my blog via Facebook I wonder if the new format is confusing. I don't know why it changed. I didn't do it. I tried to change it back and couldn't. It functions the same, one just clicks on it, but the added verbiage could confuse.

It is an absolutely beautiful day. I look across the street at my neighbors yard and although I see piles of snow I also see a green grass strip along his driveway that grows wider and wider.

I know that many folks struggle with this painfully slow Spring. In one sense, it is fast, as the snow is disappearing at a rapid rate, but we are so eager for Winter to be finally over it seems to drag on and on. We had more snow than I have seen in many years and I have lived through a few Winters.

It is very similar to how we feel about the promised enlightenment that was to come to the Earth sometime after the turn of the century. We have been working diligently trying to clean up our own acts and shed love on the world. We read books, we pray, we meditate, we say our mantras, we try our best not to judge those a-holes that irritate us, yet things seem to stay the same or even deteriorate.

As I have said before, so much of it is how we look. If I look out my study window and see nothing but that mini-mountain of snow along my neighbors driveway, I see Winter. If I shift my eyes to the ground and gaze on the patch of green grass that is now about ten feet wide, I see Spring.

I was skimming through Facebook a few minutes ago and yes, the horrors of the world is there with all the pain and agony. Yet, also there was a light shining through that indicated people are waking up from their slumber. People are no longer blindly accepting what authority figures tell them. People are beginning to question the spoon fed propaganda the government has been feeding them. Yes, the polarization and splitting into identity groups is still paramount and awfully discouraging, I see that changing too. There are more and more people becoming aware of how they have been manipulated and they are refusing to be penned up in ideological tents.

I don't know how many thousands of years we have been stuck in this blindness. How long have we allowed authority figures to point to a group and label them as evil or unequal? How long have we allowed those supposed leaders to appeal to our innate fear of others to get us to take arms against them, even though we had no personal knowledge of them? How long were we convinced that it was okay to enslave, look down, discriminate or exploit another group because we were convinced we were better? We have been doing it a long time haven't we.

In order to awaken we have to acknowledge how crazy we are capable of being. We are at a place in our development where all the craziness is visible for all to see. It is also becoming clearer and clearer to the individual mind that fear, which promotes judgement, creates all the negative horror that we see. It doesn't take much of a leap to see that love is the cure.

Every time one of us sees that love is the answer, that mind shines out to the rest. There are many more people who know that love is the answer, than those that support the status quo. The old world is dying. The empire is crumbling. A tsunami of love is building up. It is well on the way. The Grand Awakening is closer than we think!

Look for the Light! Celebrate the Light! It is all around us!

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg