Woke today with a clear mind, and peaceful. There is only opportunity in this day, many beautiful and wonderful realizations are upon the horizon for the charmed life we are blessed to have been given. These are the songs that dance within me each day, and I shall sing them to the world. This dance is a miracle, even when it is only a normal simple day, as it is right now. I am blessed with a quiet and comfortable place to sit here and write from, as I sip my coffee and dangle my feet just right above the fireplace, my happy animals calm and content. And then I think about some of the atrocities of this world going on even now on our earth, and I have to say I do not understand, not even really at all…. I view films, as I did last night, about wonderful discoveries we are making in our science, and of our greatest philosophers and deep down in me I somehow know these are the discoveries of the ancients, and they needed no microscope or fancy devices to find them… it is the nature of the human heart -not the war, not the suffering. And so, where do these come from? Are they not healable? And then of course the question always comes, what can I do about it? The answer, for me, is never far behind a truly asked question, and as Gandhi taught; simply be the change you want to see.

That, when I do sit here, comfortable, and write about the true love that flows through even now, that really I am doing something about it. I care. I wish the best for each of my neighbors, and for the world. Even walking out on my little balcony with little clothes on a cold day I feel the chill run through me, and I am grateful when I step back into my warm, safe home, and then I sometimes think about those that do not have such a place, those that are starving, and those that are cold. What could this possibly be for? What could death be for, even millions at a time being slain? It boggles my mind, for sure, and in that mind there is no answer. But in my heart there is, and it is the former that is not my domain. These things surely exist for something, seemingly as a result of or for some function that no, I cannot comprehend. I will never figure it out. And it simply is not my life, or is it? There are multi-layered realms that exist and reveal themselves to me, to us. I gratefully see our western world beginning now to do something about talking and acting in alignment with the greater good. People are beginning to take steps in the direction of heart-centered living. It must start somewhere, just as the war-like greed mongering ways surely must have, and are they really not two sides of the same stick; war, and greed? How much better it feels to give to one in need than it does to hoard for myself.

Some of us may have a sense of entitlement and are not willing to do the real work  that calls from deep within– it may seem like we are ‘earning’ our ‘living’, though perhaps we are more causing it to be displayed, a mirror for us to look in reflecting our thoughts, manifest. For the same one that cuts another to pieces also truly wants to love and be loved…does not that one go home and hug his children with the same hands? How powerful our minds can be when we decide we are right, we are more special than another, or that someone has wronged us in a world as beautiful and inherently giving as the one we are blessed to live in. There is plenty for all, Let us share, and get along. We can change our thoughts and cause something much more beautiful to be displayed. How much more intelligent is the human heart, and how truly connected to each other we are.

So what can I do about it? I can give up conflict, forever. I can give up greed, forever. I can extend only Love, forever, share it. I can share only that which I truly am, deep down, and I can find the courage to look at what that is, so deep down that I may have been deceived that it is not so after burying this under the delusion and despair that the world is a cruel and unjust place…for it is not! And we only need look to nature to see that. MANY HAVE MADE OUR WORLD SEEM THAT IT IS CRUEL AND COLD WHEN IT IS NOT.

It is a world of love and giving and nurturing and sharing and where everything works in harmony, when we simply allow it to be so. Today I choose to be this, and let go of any of this war and greed I may have walked with, and I have. Each day I make this commitment, I choose to show up in the world being this simple change. I am grateful to even be alive, to be able to contemplate the vast sea of love that life truly is, and I do here, and now, sharing it with you, the world, and that which gives all things. Thank you for my life.