Three Ideas for Good Living...

A advertising but uplifting email from JJ Virgin, weight loss and nutrition guru gave three things she had learned in 2012.  They are good for everyone, regardless if you are trying to lose weight or just trying to make life work.  She has quite an interesting personal story and some interesting weight loss ideas.  You can find that information on her website www.jjvirgin.com.  The three things she shared about living:
Take care of your Health.
Be Grateful.
Forgive Quickly.  

And So It Came to Pass...

And so it came to pass in the weeks and days leading up to the Winter Solstice of 2012 and the great cyclical galactic alignment that the forces of duality provided the residents of planet earth plenty of chances to make the choice for love and forgiveness.  Plenty of challenges were brought forth to allow humans to feel and release their deepest fear and anger.  Choose love these challenges asked .... Choose forgiveness... Learn and choose compassion.  Let go of the old fears and angers and choose love.  But most of all choose love and forgiveness for yourself...

If you Follow the Teachings of Jesus...

Not so popular now are the bracelets that held the simple letters WWJD.  And in fact they have become something of a joke.   I wonder how many people really thought about those letters.   And when it comes right down to it, What WOULD Jesus have done?   A man that taught love, forgiveness, and turning the other cheek, what else could he have done if he believed his own teachings.   Few if any of the followers of Jesus, then and now, were as enlightened as he was.  They interpreted his words through their own biases.  He was a master, a teacher, who had come to teach us the basics of love.   So many since then, including his own disciples felt they had to interpret this teaching.  If you are trying to follow the teachings of Jesus, what will you do?

Choose Awareness...

Choose Awareness, Love, Joy, Forgiveness, Compassion.  Without awareness you may have been chosen by negativity, anxiety, worry, guilt, shame and fear.  And what I mean by ‘you may have been chosen’ is that often we were influenced even as a small child by the negative emotions of our family, church, and others of influence close to us.   Without knowing it we have been living under that influence.  Choose awareness and start living...  truly living...

A Beautiful Gesture of Hope and Unity...

I have written before in this space how we cannot let fear take hold of us during this time.   It is a momentous time of great changes that, just as a child being born, can produce great fear and pain.   Amidst all the glaring headlines about wildfire and flood, politicians at war with each other over cultural differences and saying things we aren’t sure if we can believe or not, we may have missed a headline about another historical occasion.  On June 27, two days ago, the queen of England made peace with a long standing former commander of the Irish Republican Army.   A man who was responsible for a great deal of violence and death and possibly even the death of the queen’s own cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1979.  In 2005 the IRA disbanded and gave up the violence.  Two years later Martin McGuinness, this once commander of the IRA, became  the senior Catholic politician in a new unity government in Ireland.  On Wed. June 27, 2012, in a visit to Ireland, Mr McGuinness and Queen Elizabeth shook hands making a show of unity and the continued peaceful search for ways to end conflict. 
Amidst all of the changes taking place, some of them not so pleasant, let us not miss this highly symbolic gesture of Unity and Hope.    If you wish to know more about this occasion simply google ‘queen shakes hand’.  It is a beautiful and hopeful story.