Peace of Mind
March 31, 2008
Peace of mind is knowing that you did what you had to do and forgiving yourself when you weren’t as strong as you wanted to be.
Peace of mind is an easy thing.
When you have to work at it, you do not find peace of mind, because the peace of mind you work for is too fragile, too tentative.
Peace of mind needs to be present before your good work, not the result of it.
If you can accept that you have good intentions, you can have peace of mind.
You can have peace of mind before forgiving, if you are sincere and intend to forgive.
You can have peace of mind before setting right a difficult situation if you are determined in your intention.
Peace of mind is the acceptance of your good and your intention to do the right thing.
If you have to accomplish something to have a peace of mind, even if it is making good on damage you have done to others or keeping promises, your peace of mind is only fleeting.
True peace of mind is knowing that you will do what you need to do and believing in your goodness and your power to do it.
Life before Computers!
March 28, 2008
An application was for employment.
A program was a TV show.
A cursor used profanity.
A keyboard was on a piano.
Memory was something that you lost with age.
A CD was a bank account.
If you had a corrupted disk, it would hurt when you found out.
Compress was what you did to garbage, not something you did to a file.
If you unzipped anything in public, you’d be in jail for a while.
Log on was adding wood to a fire.
A hard drive was a trip on the road.
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived.
A backup happened to the commode.
Cutting, you did with a pocket knife.
Pasting, you did with glue.
The Web was where a spider lived.
A virus was the flu.
Step Out
March 25, 2008
I was looking at some photos that I took when I was at the Grand Canyon a few years ago and I realized there was something out there larger than my worries.
One of these days, I want to make another trip there so that I can “toss” my worries over the side of the canyon. After that I will walk away feeling light and free.
It’s a big world out there – much larger than our worries. When we step out into the world, we can leave our worries behind, or at least see them in their true perspective.
“One small step for a man…” ~ Neil Armstrong ~
A Blessed Easter
March 23, 2008
Good Friday
March 21, 2008
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Last Supper
March 20, 2008
If I ruled the World
March 16, 2008
What would you do if you ruled the world?
If I ruled the world, ev’ry day would be the first day of spring
Every heart would have a new song to sing
And we’d sing of the joy every morning would bring
If I ruled the world, ev’ry man would be as free as a bird,
Ev’ry voice would be a voice to be heard
Take my word we would treasure each day that occurred
My world would be a beautiful place
Where we would weave such wonderful dreams
My world would wear a smile on its face
Like the man in the moon has when the moon beams
If I ruled the world every man would say the world was his friend
There’d be happiness that no man coud end
No my friend, not if I ruled the world
Every head would be held up high
There’d be sunshine in everyone’s sky
If the day ever dawned when I ruled the world
Why can’t the rest of the World get along?
March 13, 2008
I got sent this in my email box earlier today.
In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother’s cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species.
The only orphans’ that could be found quickly were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.
Would they become cubs or pork chops?
Now please tell me one more time……..
Why can’t the rest of the world get along?
Share your Aloneness
March 11, 2008
Sharing your solitary self takes trust.
Revealing the inner workings of your heart exposes you to the rebuke of indifference and the icy frustration of not being taken seriously.
Who wants to suffer the pain of not being heard when you most need someone to listen?
To allow another (it will only be one or two at best, never others) to come close, to know the same self you are when you are alone with yourself, is the heart of intimacy.
Being intimate is displaying in the presence of another the self you discover in solitude.
What a risk hangs on this.
If you show your true self and are rejected because the other person did not understand or care enough to allow you to make yourself understood, you recoil, perceiving the whole world as hollow, empty as a shadow play.
Where is life’s meaning if such sacred knowing cannot be shared?
Kindred spirits do not need to work at this. In each other’s presence they find all the encouragement they need to be alone together.
First you must love being alone with yourself.
Then you must love the other.
The selves that appear in that interface define a world that appears every time they are together.
Which is reflection? Which is the source?
Painting: “Consideration” by Carrie Graber
