Anything I ever write is simply my belief and my opinion, and doesn’t mean this is how it is across the board. It’s just me telling my what my experience has been. That’s all I ever talk about, what MY experience has been. I’m never preaching to anyone that “this is how it is.”
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When members of the former flock start crucifying you
Know when it's time to lay it down
Uh oh, Roomi is ruffling the feathers of his former flock and they’re giving him holy heck. I told him “If anyone is upset by what you write, it is because God is allowing their buttons to be pushed. He has his reasons to use you as a conduit. A conduit allows conveyance or free passage from one place to another. It is not one way. Free passage allows movement and movement allows growth. God permits all that happens to happen as it does for a designed purpose. And if we’re always in the midst of God’s will, how can we not rejoice?”
Father’s Day and he can’t see his kids
Sunday is Father’s Day. A friend of mine has two young children and an ex-wife who does everything she can to keep him from them. This will be a somber Father’s Day for him. He doesn’t have the funds to keep going back into court to file contempt orders to make her allow him visitation as ordered. Attorneys fees have already depleted the savings and devastated the family financially. His job is comes to a close in September. His biggest concern right now, though, is he doesn’t know how he’ll get through Father’s Day this Sunday. Continue reading
The headline reads: Brazilian Woman Wins Right To Masturbate At Work.
The provocative headline reads: Brazilian Woman Wins Right To Masturbate At Work. Ana is a 36-year-old Brazilian woman who suffers from a chemical imbalance that triggers severe anxiety and hypersexuality. An accountant by day, Ana began to have problems at work, saying the only way to relieve her anxiety is by masturbating 18-47 times a day. After winning a court battle, Ana is allowed to masturbate and watch porn using her work’s computer. I posted the story on Facebook, saying: “Another crazy and unnecessary lawsuit. If she developed her creative imagination skills, she wouldn’t have to use the company’s computer and no one would have been the wiser.” And later, “”what a misery and hell it must be to be controlled by something you feel you have no control over, especially if it gets to this point. Whether she got to this point for attention or true need, the attorney fees may have been better spent in taking a retreat from her hectic life and being with professionals qualified to treat addictive behavior.” One friend commented; ” WTF? This is a real spiritual topic.” I responded, “It is. Per Wiki: “Spirituality refers to a subjective (inner, personal) reality… an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their being, or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live. We learn who we are as we watch ourselves react to what those around us do and say.”
Think kindly, you never know who you’re judging
Yesterday, we went to Publix and parked behind a black sedan almost diagonal in the parking space. WTF?? Returned to the car and saw an elderly gentleman, barely moving along, begin to place groceries in the car. When we first got there a woman with two children had a snide remark, like “the nerve that someone would park like this, it’s not like it’s a new Mustang or something.” Roomi: “The reality was, he was doing good to get out of the house and make it to the store. It’s never as it appears. When you wait long enough, all answers will be revealed to you.”
Look at yourself and remember me.
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“You have no idea how hard I have looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It is no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I have brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.” Rumi
“Work” isn’t just where you earn dollars, work is where you make a difference in someone’s life
We can all use a hand up
Roomi and I were catching up yesterday after work and I asked, “How did your day go? What did you do today?” He responded, “I did nothing all day, I accomplished nothing.” This from a man who just spent two hours helping me straighten out the shed and getting my two bicycles up and running. This from a man who spends time at the computer each day blogging and responding to people who comment on his blog and email him about it. I was amused he didn’t count that as work. Work isn’t just where you earn dollars, work is where you make a difference in someone’s life. Work just isn’t the $10 an hour you make at your cashier job, or the $80k you make at your engineer job. Work is also the contribution you make to those around you hour by hour, day by day, whether it be in your attitude, your kindness or your helpfulness. The work you do to satisfy your own soul and serve others is your real work in the world. Seva is a word used for selfless service, for work offered to God. Your seva is your real work in the world.
Showtime on Brighthouse, fix the sound
Whoever is in charge of the sound for Showtime on Brighthouse Cable, dudes, how about fixing it so we can at least hear what all the actors are saying, not just the loud ones.
It’s hard to tell my story without telling their story. How one yogi adjusts to being a householder.
You know how it is when you tell a story. If anyone else is in the story, it’s their story too and they may not tell it the way you tell it. I wrote a short post Why I don’t mind when my man writes love songs about other women. I thought: since we’re all friends, it would be fun to give everyone’s name and give the circumstances, since they were so synchronistic and of note. Of course, I couldn’t do that since not everyone cares to take everything public the way my bf and I have agreed to. I find the less secrets I have, the happier I am. Maybe that’s just because there’s less to remember. Continue reading
I get feedback about a psychic reading that made the client depressed and afraid – there’s never a need to do that
I always ask people to give me feedback about which psychic readers they would and would not recommend, and why. This is a letter I received last year. “I got a reading with Rev DP. The reading left me depressed and angry because of what she told me was on my future and there was no way to change it. I was not not told about death or sickness but stuff definitely unwelcome in my life. I was told I was going to write a book well I am not a writer or that committed to do such a thing. That my ex husband was very abusive verbally to me and that he was going to leave my life for good very angry and that the relationship with my boyfriend was over for good because he found somebody who was very compatible with but he would not marry her and that such relationship break up was protection from financial difficulties for myself. Instead my boyfriend and this woman were going to have horrible financial problems and one of them was going to move away. And that I was going to meet someone very intelligent with whom I was going to have a very steamy affair and we were going to be very in love with each other but for the meantime I was going to avoid him and that she could see me doing that.