Just Enough or It's All Too Much: CHANGE ENOUGH?

Monday, March 5, 2012

CHANGE ENOUGH?

Friday, November 12, 2010
CHANGE ENOUGH?
A Few Brief Thoughts Tonight On Change

Seems we have had about enough 'change' lately. We bought the package and now that we have opened it, we realize maybe we should have gone for a little something different. The 'change' seems to have been from bad to worse. So ENOUGH already!
What are we going to do about it? Well, most of us have decided to complain more and email more and have wound up with a generic form of 'hope'-lessness that borders on mass-acedia.
We, as the heirs to a vast and grand scheme called America, have begun to let the plan slip through our fingers.
There could be a great many responses to this dilemma. The many 'knee-jerk' responses, although they seem proactive, may not be well-thought-out.
I remain mostly baffled although I get occasional glimpses of new pathways for us to explore.
Although I do it too, I am tired of complaining. I have said I want action. My concern is what type of action would be best for us, for our nation and for the planet.
Enough negativity is being bantered back and forth and all of this does nothing but keep us all mired in this murky state of duality, separation and divisiveness. I know that some of us pray. I also know that some of us who pray, self-righteously tell our Creator what He/She should do about our situation. Stop that. Deity does have a sense of humor, but you are wasting your efforts. Who knows best? Me? You? I don't think any of us has the correct fix in mind at this time. I just know for certain that what is needed change-wise is a change of heart, an emptying of self-righteous willfulness and some open-minded and openhearted loving-kindness.
Our lack of awareness of the sacredness of our nation’s founding intentions and the documentations that provide that assurance, our disregard of our inherent responsibility to “hold these Truths to be self-evident,” and our abandonment of the sacred has opened the doorway for these protracted and ever-worsening conditions to develop.
Remembering that our national foundation, though imperfect because human, was indeed predicated on the firm and unshakable understanding that we are here because we were put here for the very reason to improve and overcome the ills that sent our ancestors to these shores will be the beginning of our nation’s renewal.
So, has there been enough change? More than enough in the wrong direction. Now we need a change of heart.
Let us commit ourselves to finding the sacred within each of us and projecting it into the world. See the sacred in every rock and tree and animal. See the handiwork of Divinity in the Grand Plan that we are an integral part of. See the sacred in every person you meet, even if you must look beyond violence, filth and ignorance. Sometimes it is buried very deep, but it is there. Let’s get to digging!
Peace Be With You
Vic

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The Coffee Shop

Well, here we sit. Do you have your coffee? Or beverage of choice? We can imagine ourselves at one of those nice little round tables at Starbucks or at Panera's. Perhaps your town has an old-fashioned diner that serves the best coffee and pie in the world.
Let's talk about life. You can listen to me pontificate, reading my blogs. Please note, though, that I would like this to be a tete'a tete'; a conversation; a give and take. So, please comment. Argue if you wish, agree if you desire to do so, but know that we have just one guideline: Civility.
Civility allows for disagreement but precludes name-calling and foul language. Strong language to make a point need not be accusatory nor vicious. Solutions do not arise from head-butting. Only from sharing, thinking, and willingness to broaden one's horizons.
So, welcome and enjoy! Do they have rhubarb pie here?
So Mote It Be

CRYSTALS, STONES AND GIFTS FROM MOTHER EARTH

At a mere four-years old, I was crawling around in the Hogan's driveway searching among their large chunks of ordinary limestone gravel for the shapes I liked best. Squirreling them away in my pockets, I stole back to our house next door where my water color tray and brush was all ready and waiting for me with a jelly glass of water for dipping my brush.

Working studiously over a newspaper, I colored each of these chunks of gravel, even giving some of them dots to make them more unique. (Four years old, remember.)

Setting them to dry, I often took time for Kool-aid and Fig Newtons, then when the stones were dry, and I was done with my treat, I loaded them into my little red wagon and pulled them around the block, which was as far as I could go alone, not yet being allowed to cross streets.

I stopped first at Kemplie's house. Mr. Kemplie owned the local icecream parlor, where soft serve in wonderful flavors like lemon and peach was available on hot summer nights. Since it was mid-afternoon, he had not yet gone to work. I could count on him as much for his business as he knew he could count on Grandma and me for ours. He usually only bought one, and it was always solid colored. He liked the blue ones best. I tucked his coins in my pocket along with the gravel dust from my earlier harvesting expedition.

I don't recall all of the other houses I stopped at. I know there was one that I always skipped. Then back around to my street, at Bowen's house the lady upstairs gave me a few pennies for a yellow stone and one with dots. My big sale was also usually my last because Mrs. Dwyer was sweet and kind and I usually scored two nickels from her for whatever was left and she always ooooh'd and ahhh'd and said they were so pretty. Next, at Wassums' they often did not answer the door. When they did it was rather unpleasant, but sometimes I got a penny if I had a red one left.

So you can see, my love of stones began in early childhood. On any trip, my Mom and I always collected rocks. Dad complained about having to move our rock collections back and forth when we sought new housing.

Today, my collection is vast. Probably TOO MUCH, like so much else. But these are friends. Gifts of the Earth. Sometimes one of them becomes a gift to someone else, always with information on its healing properties and spiritual meaning.

The stones, either polished or raw, precious or semi-precious have attributes that make them useful for helping, healing or focusing on some particular issue.

An author named simply, Melody, has written a series of guides about stones and I recommend all of them. Love is in the Earth is the title and much useful and beneficial information is available therein.

Response-Ability

In no particular order, because they seem equally significant, we each have the following duties as living breathing beings:
To care for other living beings and our lovely planet tenderly, and with harm to none.
To be aware, cognizant and alert to the world around us. And to do so without agitating or looking for trouble. Just to live with our eyes open.
To be willing to do whatever is necessary to protect the innocent and to protect freedom.
For those of us who are blessed to be Americans, we must be diligent especially to protect our freedoms, our Bill of Rights, and to watch over our Constitution to assure that it remains strong and inviolate.
For those who are native to any of the other countries on Earth, it behooves you each to work to maintain or achieve freedom and liberty for all good people and to promote kindness and goodwill toward all. We are all members of the human family and viloence toward each other is disfunctional and unacceptable.
To be the best we can be at any given time under any circumstances. To be the best we have been created to be. We are not talking straight A's or any ranking thing like that. This means, to follow the guidlines for living as given to us by the Great Spirit and stipulated in the Golden rule. If you are in a culture or religious organization that does not have the Golden Rule, Google it. It goes like this: 'Do unto others as you would wish them to do unto you.' Simple, huh!

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