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Good Morning! Can you feel autumn right around the corner? I see it in the blush of color just coming on to the trees. Mother Nature is extravagantly beautiful at this time of year.

So, what is going on? When I check within myself there is a part of me that is jumping with excitement. A feeling I used to get when I was going home after a very very long trip. Home to those I loved dearly. I was beside myself with excitement at that time.
I comment on these feelings because it is the feeling nature of the heart that appears to be waking up. I walk down the street or pass people in the store and sense the affinity I have with each and every one. I feel our interconnection. Do you?

I ran across a message from Mahavatar Babaji that I just love; “There is no saint without a past. No sinner without a future”.
In his wisdom he shows us saving grace. Non-judgement, and a promise that we can create a better future. GOD has left us no excuses for not finding HIM in all things, including ourselves. If you put your heart energy and light toward that end it shall be done.

From Think on These Things
“My abundance is aligned with the same abundance from whence the uncountable stars, the immeasurable skies, and the boundless waters are aligned.
I sense the Allness of Life.
GOD in me is Everything”. Jean Scott Prugh

We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience;
we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.
Teilhard de Chardin (Quote)

If you make the shift from the, I, me, my, way of understanding and move into the heart center of purity of thought, compassion, connection, and generosity, you will begin to create this in your world.  Create and move into peace and harmony.  Our choices affect everyone as well as ourselves.

We are all connected to everyone and everything on this planet.  Think and allow the shifts and changes to create the much needed balance in our world and even in the universe, we are that connected.

“GOD is my very self, my total being.

Life is a school of GOD in expression.

We are here to unfold and expand.

To live, to love, to learn.

To know that we are one with all creation…

….Our complete self is meant to be a living expression of the One Life.”

Thank you, GOD

Think on These Things, by Jean Scott Prugh

In truth, love, and light.  Namaste

What I see that is needed is to define the qualities of being human.  What does being human mean in the face of being interconnected?  In the past it has been pretty simplistic.  What is necessary is to create a better human, bringing in and acting on the best qualities of being.  Achieving and enacting the best qualities  we can possibly express, moving into our future.  Or nothing will change.  Change is the only constant there is, so change should be for the better or we are devolving.  Ask yourself, “Is that what I want”?  Our time is almost up.  Our world is changing, moving toward a higher dimension, where that best quality is already achieved and those working toward their best achievements are going.  We all already know what those best qualities are.  It is time to wake up and make the changes necessary to have the best quality of life for everyone and everything on this beautiful planet.  We are so interconnected that what happens here affects the universe and everything else.  It is time for each of us to be our best, shine our best, be our most compassionate, be our best human right now and into the future.

Thoughts filled my head with desire to give my children good survival skills.  I remembered experiences with my father.  My sister and I learned to row a boat on a wide river and watch my father catch trout.  He felt it was important to learn to navigate through nature.  Memories of fire building and the taste of fresh cooked trout are still vivid in my mind.  These were some of my most cherished memories, for my parents were not in my life very long.

I felt an urgency to make sure my children could take care of themselves in nature, so I began talking to them about what it would be like to go camping.  We began planning to make this experience happen.  We gathered items needed to tackle such an adventure.  First, the tent, a blow up mattress since we are city girls, sleeping bags, camp light, flash light, eating utensils, items for clean-up, and an ice chest.

I only went camping one time with Heidi and her family.  It was amazing that so little could create such fun. We played in the sand, burying the dog up to his neck. My granddaughter became a mermaid under her father’s sand sculpting skills, and my grandson exhausted himself running around dragging a long sea onion.

This was something that we wanted to do as a family.  We would spend four days of camping at Detroit Lake, a beautiful mountainous area of Oregon.  None of us had been there before.  We wanted to camp at the lake.  I sent out instructions.  Heather was coming from Portland.  Suzy and I were coming from Salem.  Heidi and her family were coming from Medford.  Everything was all planned and set.

Suzy and I were to arrive early and secure a site.  By the time we packed and left, it was later than expected.  We arrived at Detroit Lake to find all camp sites around the lake were taken.  I stopped at an attendant’s trailer and picked up fire wood, and was told about possible camp sites fifteen miles east of the lake.

I was worried when we arrived and it was late afternoon.  The cell phones did not work in the mountains.  I could not alert anyone of the changes.  Suzy and I unloaded the car, and gathered wood and dry moss to start a fire.  I followed my father’s instructions.  We set up the tent, but with darkness coming we could not read the instructions.  We ate hot dogs on a stick and I wrote directions on nine paper plates to post at each camp site around the lake with the fading light.  My heart tugged as I realized I had to leave Suzy with our little blind dog at a wilderness camp site to go back to the lake and post plates on entrance boards to each camp area, but that is what I had to do.  I stopped five miles from the lake and found I was able to use my cellphone to call Heather, coming from Portland, to give her instructions.  Then my phone went dead.  All I could do was go on and post directions and hope they would be found.

I went back to Suzy, still alone at the camp site.  I decided that since it was so dark I would wait at the entrance.  I was actually glad it was dark because only three cars passed and there were large things buzzing past me and some hitting me that I did not want to see.  I needed to stand my ground and wait for my family.  Soon, I recognized the headlights of a car approaching as Heather’s.  She stopped and I ran and got in.  We went back to the lake to try and find the others, but they were not there.

We decided to go back to Suzy, alone at the camp, and look in the morning.  To our surprise, when we got back, camp was all lit.  Heidi was cooking. My son-in-law was putting up tents, and my grandkids were running up the lane to greet us.  I marveled at how things come together like this, as I lay on my blow up mattress in the tent, letting the murmur of a nearby stream lull me to sleep. I realized there was a lot more to navigating nature than I thought.

In the morning I woke up to laughter and Heidi asking; “Mom, what is wrong with your tent?”

Now, with the beginning of the new year, is the time to begin creating your best thoughts and ideas for a new life, new and/or better  relationships, more success in your daily lives and work, higher forms of service to the world,  ideas for creating a better world for all creatures.  There is so much we can do to unite in spirit and mind to create a better world.  It is in the unity of great and higher thoughts that we begin.

Don’t waste your time with useless activities or circumstances.

In your current incarnation you have the opportunity to know your

oneness with all life and your relationship with the Infinite.

– Paramahansa Yogananda

On this, the last day of the year 2010, let us remember to come together in our hearts, and accept who we are to each other.  Everyone on earth is part of the that same wonderful energy of love, light, and truth known as GOD, The Source, Father.  Whatever you want to call that energy, we are all in it.  In GOD we live, move, and have our being, (Acts 17:28).

We Live in God By Rev. Lynn James, LMHC
“In God we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:28
A baby bird had just learned to fly. “Father bird,” she asked, “Where is the Sky?” Father bird thought then and said with a smile, “All around you my child, for mile upon mile. Sky is the place where we spread our wings, where we float on the breeze, with the songs that we sing. Sky is neither here nor there; sky my child is everywhere.”
A baby fish in the ocean so wide, asked mother fish, “Where is the tide?” Mother fish thought and then said with a smile, “All around you my child, for mile upon mile. The tide is the place where we swim and we play, where we breathe and we rest, where we live out our days. The tide is neither here nor there; the tide, my child, is everywhere.”
A sapling broke through the forest’s soft floor, growing and stretching then growing some more. No longer a seed buried deep in the earth, it stood under the oak that had given it birth. The tree child waved its branches around and wondered out loud, “Where is the ground?” The mother oak thought and said with a smile, “All around you my child, for mile upon mile. The ground is beneath us, holding us all; it is where we began and where one day we’ll fall. The ground is neither here nor there; the ground, my child, is everywhere.”
A child had just finished her good-night prayer; she turned to her father and asked “Daddy where, where is God, and is Grandma there too? Is God way up high in the sky so blue?” Her father thought and then said with a smile, “All around you my child, for mile after mile. God is not far, God’s as near as your breath, as close as a hug; God holds both life and death. God carries the fish and the ocean so deep, God holds you awake and God rocks you asleep. God’s arms are stretched out beyond even the sky; God is wind for the wings of the birds as they fly. As the ground holds tight to the roots of a tree, so God holds tightly to you and to me. All love and all life in the universe so grand, God holds all that is while holding your hand. God is neither here nor there; God, my child, is everywhere.”

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Novelist and poet, Ben Okri

Bring love forth from your hearts and let’s create our beautiful world together.  Let’s move past the suffering we may have endured, all disappointments can be left in the dust,  kick up our heels, and move on with our capacity and desire to create a wonderful world together, from love.  It is what we came here to do.  In truth, love, and light.  Namaste, and may peace prevail in our universe.

Once upon a time, we met and charted our experiences for this life time.  We charted everything we needed to understand and grow from.  Like a great play-write (we are all that) we plotted our lives.  “Now, who will help me fulfill my story, my lessons, my experiences and help me grow?”, we asked.  One by one we selected the best teachers, because the lessons are so very important.  Others were eager to step up and be our supporting cast.  The hardest roles to fill were the ones that required us to learn the negative lessons of life.  The ones who stepped into those roles had to agree to step down, to sacrifice their greatness (for we are all great) to help us learn these lessons of pain, suffering, lack, poverty, rejection, betrayal, and limitation.

Our world is a great school, and one of the toughest.  Here we learn to master opposites.  Here is manifested light and dark, happiness and sorrow, joy and tears, love and hate.  Here we embrace the good and grapple with evil.  Have you noticed that the opposite of evil is live?

If we did not come here and test our mettle we would not learn the boundaries,  we would not understand the need for compassion and tolerance, we would not overcome the darkness, or ever be strong. Never having experienced it, we would never see it.  We could easily turn down the wrong road.  When the goal is to build physical strength, how do we do that?  We train.  And that coach who is driving us beyond our perceived (I say perceived because our endurance is limitless, but we don’t know that, until we do)  endurance is there to make us stronger, give us better insight, learn to pick ourselves up out of the mud and begin again, suffer through our indignation’s to become a better person, teach us how to find a way beyond the struggle to reach our own inner conscious heights.  To do that he stepped down from (for this moment in time) his/her greatness, to give us the opportunity to reach our highest.  Remember, there are no mistakes in life.  Please do not judge the appearances.  The one you judge may be your best friend in eternity, who has given up himself to help you grow.

Think on these things.

In truth, love, and light.  Namaste

On the highest plane of all, there is only GOD.  The strength gained from our lessons brings our highest success, and there GOD is.

There is only one GOD.

And Jesus is HIS son,

And Om is HIS word,

And Abraham is HIS seed,

And Allah is HIS messenger,

And Buddha is HIS wisdom,

And Mohammad is HIS heights,

And Christianity is HIS venture,

And Hindu is HIS love,

And Islam is HIS pride,

And Judah is HIS Joy,

And Nature is HIS anthem,

And the Universe is HIS domain.

Author:  From GOD to Patti

In GOD we are,
In GOD we,
In GOD,
In GOD all are we.

In truth, light, and love.  Namaste