I saw my first menorah of the season! On top of a car! I couldn't believe it! I know that Judaism is a Lifestyle for many but this is really taking it to the streets! I laughed so hard I cried!
I don't care how dismal things may seem, the economy Grinch cannot interfere with my holiday spirit. The days of easy credit are a distant memory.. And if I had better credit right now, would I use it on gifts? I'll just be creative and pray that the cost of supplies doesn't leave me in despair.
"When I say STOP! I! Mean! STOP!"It's the common mantra. For some reason this offered a ring of truth and we laughed 'til we cried... all the way to her school.
Let go and trust her.It's soooo hard to do. I've been trying! By letting go of the driver seat, the keys, control of the car. It's not that I don't trust my Indigo Child... It's those other fools on the road I'm worried about!
Just changed the title for impact. Just watched The VIEW. They further discussed the Tiger Woods baby mama's drama and panorama. Hmmmm.. That's catchy.
This is a repost of my Yeah, but ... Why? post of 12/02/09..
scrolled across the streaming marquee on CNN. So I Googled..."Tiger Woods confesses to what?"Quite frankly, I am shocked!
cheat on me.
I've noticed that my 16 yr old wouldn't care if we had fast food every single night. She'd especially love it if we'd just spend all our food cash on franchised Chicken Tikka Masala. Gosh. I've tried to replicate that sauce so she can get off my back about spending eight bucks on a Weight Watchers portion of chicken and sauce & rice! |
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There's something about the way snow falls and covers everything that brings out the joy in us. My 16 yr old dashed into my room this morning and giggly announced, "Mom, it's snowing." We knew it was imminent and I wondered why the heat was blowing steady throughout the night. But actually seeing it is believing it. Like magic! Especially in Dallas.
"A Course in Miracles isn’t a course in the positive (joy). It is a course in undoing the negative."
I am a ten year student of A Course in Miracles. I have renewed my conviction to undo the negative. It's not me but the "Miracle" that is doing the work for me. I am unlearning every negative thing that I've been taught. I reflect on Heaven by allowing the Miracle to undo the negative. I sit quietly and I do nothing. I look and I wait and I do not judge any more. I won't work at it. I won't fight it. I won't try. I allow myself to be sickened by my choices. Sickened by how I treat others and judge others. I am sickened by how I treat myself. I am sickened by how angry and annoyed I can get with the Baptists and how I loathe the religious zealous folks, and the Church, and sickened by how much I judge. I really do now at this point in my life have JUDGMENT FATIGUE. I have chosen against all of the negative! I can be me again. Finally, I have returned to my Miracle Mind and refuse to give any energy to any apparent problem or it's attending fears. I'm finally back to affirming Who and What I really am.
Thank you, God, for the Miracle. Amen.
1. Illusions will not last. 2 Their death is sure and this alone is certain in their world. 3 It is the ego's world because of this. 4 What is the ego ? 5 But a dream of what you really are. 6 A thought you are apart from your Creator and a wish to be what He created not. 7 It is a thing of madness, not reality at all. 8 A name for namelessness is all it is. 9 A symbol of impossibility; a choice for options that do not exist. 10 We name it but to help us understand that it is nothing but an ancient thought that what is made has immortality. 11 But what could come of this except a dream which, like all dreams, can only end in death?
2. What is the ego? 2 Nothingness, but in a form that seems like something. 3 In a world of form the ego cannot be denied for it alone seems real. 4 Yet could God's Son as He created him abide in form or in a world of form? 5 Who asks you to define the ego and explain how it arose can be but he who thinks it real, and seeks by definition to ensure that its illusive nature is concealed behind the words that seem to make it so.
3. There is no definition for a lie that serves to make it true. 2 Nor can there be a truth that lies conceal effectively. 3 The ego's unreality is not denied by words nor is its meaning clear because its nature seems to have a form. 4 Who can define the undefinable? 5 And yet there is an answer even here.
4. We cannot really make a definition for what the ego is, but we can say what it is not. 2 And this is shown to us with perfect clarity. 3 It is from this that we deduce all that the ego is. 4 Look at its opposite and you can see the only answer that is meaningful.
5. The ego's opposite in every way,--in origin, effect and consequence--we call a miracle. 2 And here we find all that is not the ego in this world. 3 Here is the ego's opposite and here alone we look on what the ego was, for here we see all that it seemed to do, and cause and its effects must still be one.
6. Where there was darkness now we see the light. 2 What is the ego? 3 What the darkness was. 4 Where is the ego? 5 Where the darkness was. 6 What is it now and where can it be found? 7 Nothing and nowhere. 8 Now the light has come: Its opposite has gone without a trace. 9 Where evil was there now is holiness. 10 What is the ego? 11 What the evil was. 12 Where is the ego? 13 In an evil dream that but seemed real while you were dreaming it. 14 Where there was crucifixion stands God's Son. 15 What is the ego? 16 Who has need to ask? 17 Where is the ego? 18 Who has need to seek for an illusion now that dreams are gone?
7. What is a miracle ? 2 A dream as well. 3 But look at all the aspects of this dream and you will never question any more. 4 Look at the kindly world you see extend before you as you walk in gentleness. 5 Look at the helpers all along the way you travel, happy in the certainty of Heaven and the surety of peace. 6 And look an instant, too, on what you left behind at last and finally passed by.
8. This was the ego--all the cruel hate, the need for vengeance and the cries of pain, the fear of dying and the urge to kill, the brotherless illusion and the self that seemed alone in all the universe. 2 This terrible mistake about yourself the miracle corrects as gently as a loving mother sings her child to rest. 3 Is not a song like this what you would hear? 4 Would it not answer all you thought to ask, and even make the question meaningless?
9. Your questions have no answer, being made to still God's Voice, which asks of everyone one question only: "Are you ready yet to help Me save the world?" 2 Ask this instead of what the ego is, and you will see a sudden brightness cover up the world the ego made. 3 No miracle is now withheld from anyone. 4 The world is saved from what you thought it was. 5 And what it is, is wholly uncondemned and wholly pure.
10. The miracle forgives; the ego damns. 2 Neither need be defined except by this. 3 Yet could a definition be more sure, or more in line with what salvation is? 4 Problem and answer lie together here, and having met at last the choice is clear. 5 Who chooses hell when it is recognized? 6 And who would not go on a little while when it is given him to understand the way is short and Heaven is his goal?
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for the reminder!
Soap Box
Being who I am and partially what this blog is about, I can't help but to bring up religious (aka ego) zealots because there are a couple of people that I love and want to keep in my life but I'm afraid their views only serve to alienate me further from them. My big bold ego feels these guys go above and beyond the call of duty with their constant religious expressions and beliefs and opinions. Arrrrgh!
I was reminded this evening that my problem is not really with them. The problem is with me.
I personally believe that God is Spirit and divine energy, one power, all good, all wisdom, everywhere present and the loving source of all that is. And I know Jesus as my Way Shower, and that every person has the potential to express the perfection of Christ by being more Christlike in everyday life.
And so it is, these people have the same take on God and Jesus, only they use different words and study from a different book and attend a different type of church and speak on it constantly, as if nobody else has a thought about the matter. Good. Bad. Or different. Or as if, everybody else has the exact same thought about the matter. And for some reason I have felt personally offended and more often attacked because they come at me and others with such passion that it feels accusatory and belligerent!
I know how to interpret and use their words and views metaphysically, but I am trying so hard NOT to loathe their constant expressions. If only they would just breathe... and enjoy what they believe for themselves and leave me out of it. There's this saying that I whole heartedly endorse...The world is not so much interested in what you believe, but what your belief does for you.I am making an effort to not see a difference because there actually isn't any difference. We ARE all children of the same Universe.. the same God. One Love.
So instead of me getting rid of passionate friends, I have decided to shut off my own annoyance with their fervor, and allow them to just.. be.
I was starting to feel way over my head with sadness even anger about the state of Christianity. That it seems to have become this catch all phrase for religious and spiritual "right." I've been so afraid to refer to myself as a Christian because I didn't want to be put into 'that' box. And I dare not say I go to 'church.' I just say I'm a Unity student.
It has really sucked to befriend and even be among a family of fundamentalists. But in reality.. to me, being a Believer or Christian is just a label, and it doesn't make the wearer better than followers of Buddha, Shiva, Krishna, Mohammad, etc.. (But Christians generally think they are better than others. That they've cornered the market on God and Jesus.. And here I go again!)
Thanks to all my fellow students and friends of Unity's Monday Night A Course In Miracles study group, Dave and especially T. OMG. What a relief! What a relief. To finally let this go.
Does it mean I can give up my own stance on the Baptists and organized religion? I'll find a loop hole for wonderfully and fully expressing my love and joy when I'm among the spiritually different!
And I'm hopeful that the energy at my home when my mother visits at Christmas will be much better because I've had a total change of heart.
And so it is.
Ok.. So my other car is a Saab.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Thanksgiving Inside
Thanksgiving Outside
Not the movie. But Life.Stop breathing as much as you can. You will realize.
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The living room t.v. is on Super Nanny, and there's music & singing vaguely blasting from my daughter's room. She sings when she's happy, and when she's mad. Right now she's happy. And then there are the sounds is this keyboard clacking since a couple of hours ago. Responding to holiday greetings from friends. When my niece gets here.. I know what I'll be hearing lots of... the sounds of Sponge Bob and the like! And Oh, yeah... The multiple voices shouting "NO! Oliver!"
LOVE me some Grissom! 
... but not forgotten)
Kissin' Kate Barlow &
Pete Delkus the realest coolest weather man I've ever seen. He wears nice shirts, too. **** My daughter says... "He's not a celebrity!" I say he is! LOL
engagingly sexy & hyperactive about antiques & other stuff! If I spied them together I would go ABSOLUTELY nuts! Mildly nuts if I just ran into one of 'em. And yes.. I'd ask.. "Which one are you?" LOL
Beautifully will I possess again.
Beautifully birds . . .
Beautifully joyful birds
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk.
With dew about my feet may I walk.
With beauty may I walk.
With beauty before me, may I walk.
With beauty behind me, may I walk.
With beauty above me, may I walk.
With beauty below me, may I walk.
With beauty all around me, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.
A Navajo Indian Prayer of the Second Day of the Night Chant (anonymous)
Hi Jackie-
Good story. And, another way to look at giving is . once the gift is given - the random act of kindness done - it is out of our hands as to how the receiver accepts and uses the gift. That has nothing to do with me - my involvement ends once the giving is completed.
Enjoy the moments
Love Gail
peace and hope
