My December 1, 2013 thank you for following and enjoying, when you do,
the gems of wisdom Spirit shares with me. Of course, sometimes I wonder
whether or not He throws in a few….
Love to you all,
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It was always too late
Spirit tells me that, perhaps it was
Always too late to turn back
The pages of life experiences
That created , one step at a time,
Today’s seemingly tragic situation.
Our culture and our civilization are,
He tells me, doomed, but let’s
Strive to leave a glorious record
For whatever civilization
Develops out of our ruins,
Not ashes.
Not a course in miracles
Spirit tells me that the lessons He
Will teach me will not result in
Miracles, and that my progress,
And that of everyone else is
Guaranteed. Its only a matter
Of enough experience to
Persuade us to adapt to
The realities of Life.
This is not a course in miracles,
He assures me, but a struggle
Toward enlightenment. First
Comes pain.
Stop. What kind of assurance
Is that? Who wants pain?
Not pain, alone, He tells me.
There are other stresses, too.
I protest. This is not the way
I remember learning in school.
Spirit questions my memory of
How I learned what I did, and
Suggests that everything
I have ever learned, is as
Taught in OUR primary school.
You (meaning me) and some others
Seem to forget that experience was
Always your best teacher. But,
That alone, was never enough.
We need to reflect on experience
Or suffer the pain of needing to
Repeat the lesson. It’s as
Simple as that.
What about compassion?
My compassion for you is
Genuine and deep, but
It does not replace experience.
Lessons need to be learned.
Whatever made me think that
Study with Spirit was a blessing.
It is, He tells me, and,
You know it.
Continuous Creation as an unavoidable way of life
Spirit tells me that everyone creates in a continuous
And unending development of their life. Some may
Call it a lifestyle, but a way of life is the way we
Choose to create our life. We cannot not create
When we eat, He tells me (I have just finished
Eating a delicious meal that I prepared myself, so
It could be sour grapes – Spirit may not be able
To eat).. He repeats Himself, when we eat, we
Are nourishing or abusing our body.
Eating far beyond (I may have overeaten
A little) what is necessary to sustain
And nourish healthy growth.
Addiction to food is still addiction. I
Feel no remorse. My taste buds enjoyed
The food, and approved of my efforts.
My appetite, wherever that resides,
May have been a bit greedy. My body
Does feel a bit too full. This is abuse,
Spirit tells me, and I suppose He’s right,
Again. My digestive system, He tells me
Has been the victim of my obvious lack
Of self-control, and now must work,
Beyond what a small meal
Would have required of it.
Now comes the real guilt trip. He
Suggests that my digestive system
Has now become an unwilling
Participant to disease creation,
Obesity being, in Spirit’s mind,
A created disease process.
I will try to eat less, next time.
Simplicity is different things to different people
Spirit asks me to try to develop
A more simple lifestyle.
What would it look like,
I ask Him.
Simplicity is, He tells me,
But, of course, I already knew,
Different things to different people.
I do, now, live a much more simple
Lifestyle than I would choose to live,
If choosing is all it took. But,
It does seem to require more,
Perhaps a more generous
Spirit teacher?
I tell Spirit that I need pleasure and
Comfort in my life, and, since I am
For now, in a world of matter, then
Why not enjoy it, if I can.
I need pleasure and a certain level
Of comfort. Spirit surprises me
With, So do I.
What is a promise made of?
Spirit asks me, What is a promise made of?
I had never thought of a promise as being
Composed of or built or created of
Anything outside of itself. But,
Intention came to my mind,
Perhaps placed therein by Spirit.
A promise expresses an intention.
An intention to do what?
Spirit answers for me, An
Intention to let me…
To let you what?
Where is the do?
This discussion is getting over my head.
There is no discussion.
Then, what are we doing?
One of us is stalling.
For what?
For time, and there is no time.
Then, what must I do?
To what?.
To satisfy you.
Satisfy yourself.
How?
Now we’re getting somewhere.
Where?
Toward accepting that
I need nothing from you, but
You need me.
For what?
For life, for everything.
A Formless and Tuition-Free Academy of Higher Learning
There is no urgency, Spirit tells me. There never was
And never will be. Perhaps not for Him, but it stresses
Me to be, or seem to be, a very slow learner of His
Gems of Wisdom. Sometimes I wonder how
I could ever grasp the depth of insight
That seems almost comprehensible
And yet still beyond my understanding.
At times like this I feel compassion
For Spirit, my teacher, whom I greatly
Respect, but do not always show it.
Why? I fear I’ll lose myself in
The immensity of his energy, that is
So totally beyond that of my own.
The compassion I feel for Him comes
When I consider that possibly
He was assigned to teach me,
Perhaps as a Cosmic joke.
Spirit seems to smile at my misplaced
Compassion, if it is misplaced, and
I suddenly feel appreciation and gratitude
Beyond measure, for being blessed with
The opportunity to study at a
Tuition-free and formless academy of
Higher Learning. Then I wonder, as if
To bring myself back to a denser form
Of thought, do formless energies have
Form other than of their own choosing?
Spirit assures me that, just as all matter
Has form and energy, so it is with Him
And all so-called formless energies.
Form, He tells me, is in the eye
Of the beholder, but not as beauty is.
Ten thousand easier ways
Spirit tells me that one of us seems to be unaware of
Where we are or where we are going, or
How we have planned to get there.
Planned? I don’t remember planning
This route through life.
There simply has to be
An easier way.
Perhaps there are ten thousand
Easier ways, He tells me, but
This is your/our way.
Did we draw straws or roll dice?
Neither of the above. Our way is
A gift that we have given to
Ourselves.
How? and Why?
Free will or, rather, the price
Or consequence of such.
The Soup of Life
Spirit tells me that repetition of
Similar experiences is not always
Enough to teach us the lessons
They might have taught us if
We had reflected or meditated on
Their cause and consequence, and
Considered how a different
Approach might have had
A different result.
Perhaps, He tells me, if we had
Put less salt into the soup, then,
A richer flavour of the soup’s
Contents could have been
Experienced.
Whether altering our approach,
Our response, can never be known,
For sure, until we try.
Experiment with your life,
He tells me, but in an
Intelligent way.
New Beginnings require endings
Spirit tells me that
New beginnings require endings.
We each must learn
Through experience, how far
We can go in making
Concessions to please others,
For whatever reasons.
There is a limit, He tells me,
That only experience can
Teach us.
When it becomes more painful
To hold onto than to let go, then
A chapter in our Life ends, and
A new one begins.
Even then, we may still be
Involved with whomever or
Whatever we have let go of, But
It will never again be as it
Once never was.
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