Daily Cup of Contemplation
I have noticed that when it is time for me to
learn something new, things come in threes. Things I had never heard of are now
a part of my everyday reality, just like that! One day I am in judgment about
someone else doing what I perceive to be silly or wrong, and the next thing you
know, I am doing that same thing. This is especially true in parenting. Until
you have had and raised your own kids, don’t frown upon the mother losing it in
the store. It is so easy to look saintly when you don’t have kids in tow. I
posted the other day to try to suspend judgment, as it is usually a way to stay
insulated from the unknown, or what we fear. Now do I judge murder and violence
as a bad thing? Yes, I certainly do, but I am referring more to our judgments
about behaviors and choices of others. I am currently in a spiritual re
birthing process, and am letting go of many beliefs I have held fast to. I
experience the discomfort of not knowing exactly where I fit, or if I even have
to. I choose to believe that what a person needs to hold on to at that time in
their lives is exactly where they need to be. I for now, am open, so open it
scares me a bit, as there is no boundary to hold me. My current mantra is, “I
only know one thing for sure, and that is that I don’t know anything, except
that I believe in everything and nothing.” Far be it from me to tell YOU how to
believe or where you will go after you die. If I had died and come back, well I
would then be on a soap box, but that is not my reality. I have my own personal
beliefs, but my job is not to try to convince you to be just like me, it is my
job to honor what you need to do, that makes you inherently you. I think we are
a frightened lot, in that to stand alone in your beliefs without a trail of
people in front of or behind you, is most challenging. I often visualize all
the man made religions split into two groups facing each other, and giving their
best sales pitch as to why they are the chosen ones, and everyone else is wrong.
This would be a long line, and the visual in and of itself always amuses me. I
know for myself, what I perceive to be the energy that makes
the planet spin, gives the rose its fragrance, a baby its first smile, the light
in all creatures eyes when you catch and hold it, the way you feel when someone
tells you they love you and mean it, the oneness we feel in a disaster, the way
a sunset is never the same and most of all, the way it feels to be honest and
vulnerable with another person, is to ME, a power greater than
myself that I believe connects us all. That is all I really know, is that there
is a force so strong, magnificent and loving, that when I am open enough to
express it, I know I am tapped into something far greater than any man made
manufactured belief system. It is, I am. Now is the time in my life when I
turn, like a lake, the bottom goes to the top, and all things that don’t serve
me are sorted out and removed. I love these times, and I feel them coming, like
the scent before a rain. I am also fully aware that there may be lots of rain,
thunder and lightning, but I also know what comes at the end. To see a rainbow
is the greatest sign there is that the darkness has ended and the light has been
restored. I am getting my umbrella and a lawn chair and making myself ready for
the show.
I have noticed that when it is time for me to
learn something new, things come in threes. Things I had never heard of are now
a part of my everyday reality, just like that! One day I am in judgment about
someone else doing what I perceive to be silly or wrong, and the next thing you
know, I am doing that same thing. This is especially true in parenting. Until
you have had and raised your own kids, don’t frown upon the mother losing it in
the store. It is so easy to look saintly when you don’t have kids in tow. I
posted the other day to try to suspend judgment, as it is usually a way to stay
insulated from the unknown, or what we fear. Now do I judge murder and violence
as a bad thing? Yes, I certainly do, but I am referring more to our judgments
about behaviors and choices of others. I am currently in a spiritual re
birthing process, and am letting go of many beliefs I have held fast to. I
experience the discomfort of not knowing exactly where I fit, or if I even have
to. I choose to believe that what a person needs to hold on to at that time in
their lives is exactly where they need to be. I for now, am open, so open it
scares me a bit, as there is no boundary to hold me. My current mantra is, “I
only know one thing for sure, and that is that I don’t know anything, except
that I believe in everything and nothing.” Far be it from me to tell YOU how to
believe or where you will go after you die. If I had died and come back, well I
would then be on a soap box, but that is not my reality. I have my own personal
beliefs, but my job is not to try to convince you to be just like me, it is my
job to honor what you need to do, that makes you inherently you. I think we are
a frightened lot, in that to stand alone in your beliefs without a trail of
people in front of or behind you, is most challenging. I often visualize all
the man made religions split into two groups facing each other, and giving their
best sales pitch as to why they are the chosen ones, and everyone else is wrong.
This would be a long line, and the visual in and of itself always amuses me. I
know for myself, what I perceive to be the energy that makes
the planet spin, gives the rose its fragrance, a baby its first smile, the light
in all creatures eyes when you catch and hold it, the way you feel when someone
tells you they love you and mean it, the oneness we feel in a disaster, the way
a sunset is never the same and most of all, the way it feels to be honest and
vulnerable with another person, is to ME, a power greater than
myself that I believe connects us all. That is all I really know, is that there
is a force so strong, magnificent and loving, that when I am open enough to
express it, I know I am tapped into something far greater than any man made
manufactured belief system. It is, I am. Now is the time in my life when I
turn, like a lake, the bottom goes to the top, and all things that don’t serve
me are sorted out and removed. I love these times, and I feel them coming, like
the scent before a rain. I am also fully aware that there may be lots of rain,
thunder and lightning, but I also know what comes at the end. To see a rainbow
is the greatest sign there is that the darkness has ended and the light has been
restored. I am getting my umbrella and a lawn chair and making myself ready for
the show.
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