Monday January 5, 2009 A great exercise to get at the root of a problem and resolve it within you:
Make a list with 3 columns:
Name of person who offended you
Nature of the offense
Your advice to them in a loving, noncritical manner
After making this list, go back and cross their name out, put your name in its place and take your own advice.
Monday January 5, 2009 My brother, who lives just outside Greenvlle, SC, wrote me this morning: ” The other night, while the grandkids were here, we were awakened by what sounded like an extremely large explosion. Even though there was a light rain, there was not lightening or thunder. This sounded more like a bomb going off. The lights didn’t flicker like in a storm or when one of the transformers blow, and I didn’t hear any sirens to indicate the fire department or police were responding to anything. My next thought was a sonic boom, but I didn’t hear any jet engines. After doing a little research, I find that in North and South Carolina, and an area of NY, there is an unexplained phenomenom called the Seneca Guns. Continue reading
I was at a friend’s property and walking along a wooded path taking in the glorious greens of nature and came upon a bubbling pond. I stopped to look at the water’s edge then noticed the fish just below the surface, come to look at their new guest. So shyly do they come to watch, fins waving back and forth slowly, keeping them moving but staying in the same place. A brave one pokes his face above the surface to get a closer look and he looks me straight in the eye and then dips slowly back into his own world. The brave fish swims off to tell his friends that he dared to get a closer look at what was beyond the pond and he found it was benevolent and good; he encouraged everyone to go look for themselves. Continue reading
Sunday January 4, 2009
Ok, so I hooked up the new tv and I don’t know what I was thinking…maybe it’s the extra 6″ diagonal, but my old tv just has a better picture. Yes, this new tv is smaller and more compact but, well, if I have friends over to watch the Spiritual Cinema Circle dvds, the screen from the old tv is much easier to see. So tomorrow back it goes to Circuit City. Now I know that when the old tv finally goes out, if it ever does, I will replace it with at least the same size screen. Continue reading
Today is our father’s birthday. I didn’t always get along with daddy, especially growing up. None of us did. The typical teenage syndrome when you think you hate your father. He was always very strict and controlling and, we thought, unreasonable. He had a 6th grade education, worked construction and I know now that he did a long hard job and came home to kids who smart mouthed him and that couldn’t have been easy. Continue reading
Saturday January 3, 2009
Well I finally broke down and did it, I bought a 22″ LCD TV. It’s a smaller screen than the 28″ I have now, but it’s also smaller overall. My tv now is 17 years old and measures about 30″ square. Big, bulky, heavy. Still working perfectly fine, but such a giant clunk of furniture when I am trying to streamline and simplify. I may move it into the bedroom. I haven’t decided yet. it’s just that in the living room, a flat tv on the bookcase takes up so much less room and leaves so much more… white space. I’m getting more and more into white space. Now to find someone to help me hook it up and get my Bright House cable box remote synched…
Ma Yoga Shakti
This Sunday 4th Jan 2009, Ma Yoga Shakti will give the Sunshine Lecture at Yogashakti Mission from 9 – 10 AM. She will give a New Year Message. All welcome to come and listen to Mataji’s beautiful message. No charge. Yoga Shakti Mission is located at 3895 Hield Rd NW, Palm Bay, FL 32907. A mile west of Minton Road, just north of Palm Bay Road (exit 176 off I-95) Call 321-725 4024 and visit www.yogashakti.org
I was 56 last year but I totally don’t feel that age. I feel about 35. And I’ve got good genes and an animated personality, so I know I have a youthful appearance. Of course, all the photos I put online are flattering ones 🙂 But I’m not often around people who talk about aging or wrinkles or losing their memory, so I don’t think about those things much. Continue reading
MOMENTUM If I have no momentum going, it’s tough to head in a new direction. To get anywhere, I need momentum. I need to be there in the moment – consciously – to get me there. Inspiration propels me in a particular direction, but only I can provide the momentum. So when I feel stuck or frozen in place, that is my signal to start heading somewhere – anywhere. And in my desire to do something – anything – I will be led to new choices and new opportunities. Continue reading