Feb 3-2017

I want to take a moment to thank Rep. Sen. John McCain for acting as a common sense moderator in these chaotic times. I am a democrat but I appreciate his daring and courage. It takes effort and stamina to stand on honor and hold to ethics in today’s political climate.

2/4/17

After reading the NYT article about people being radicalized through apps on the internet I felt ashamed and asked myself. What am I doing to help? Where do I fit in? Should I become more political? Should I join marches? (I can’t walk far). Should I write letters? We are all good at something so there must be something special I am good at, but what? Then I decided to meditate and ask Jesus. Jesus referred me to the mountain peak filled with God light and where we gather with other likeminded people, many of whom are wiser than myself. So I asked the group what they thought I should do. The consensus was that our efforts to spread God light is most valuable. Plus, we can direct the light to those confused people.

I thought about the people already radicalized, but admitted they would be too much for me. After a little thought, I realized that fear is the base of the problem. It is fear that causes people to make bad decisions, fear for the self or fear of the other. So, this is what I decided to do this morning, go to individuals and try to ease their fear.

I started in the suburbs of Michigan but then spread out around the US. The angels helped direct me. I went to a thin lady in a rich home and held her while I let the light from my center shine into her. I told her “Do not be afraid.” I repeated this phrase over and over. I hugged her and sent light into her.

I went to a farmer on a tractor and repeated these phrases and added, “Follow the light.” Then up north, I found a middle age man living in a small snow bound house with a few animals in cages outside. I hugged him and sent light into him, but seen right away that his mind was totally blocked against me. He was so filled with anger that I left in sorrow. I am not able to change people, only encourage them to do better. It isn’t for me to fix what is broken, only mend a few small cracks.

So next I went to a young teenage boy and said the same. “Don’t be afraid. Ride it out. It will end and you will be ok.” I got the impression that he felt he was being picked on by other teens at school. I kept repeating the phrase to him as I filled him with God light.

Next I went to a plump teenager girl. I think younger people can listen or least feel my presence more easily than adults. I hugged her and told her not to be afraid.

My efforts paid off with the next young man I went to. He seemed depressed. I told him not to fear, that he was ok. I showed him and let him feel the spark of light within his own body. Then showed him how my center glowed with light. “This is from being kind to people,” I said to him. “Your light can grow too.” I kept hugging him. “You are valuable to God. You don’t realize what you can grow up to become. Your pain will pass. Give it a try.” He seemed to hear my whisper because he did try.

He went downstairs to his where his mother was in the kitchen and said, “You know, I am ok, don’t you mom?” His mother smiled. I knew that he felt better for giving her this small flicker of hope. His psyche was mending as I watched. This made me feel effective, as if I had truly accomplished something important this morning.

Jesus smiled at my effort. The other night, during a short ten minute meditation, Jesus set a golden nugget into my chest and I watched it expand and glow. It looked like a bit of the sun that shone inside me. When I joined the others on the mountain this morning, my personal bit of sunshine bloomed and opened wide like a golden flower. My purpose now is to remember this nugget of sun I carry as I go throughout my day. I tend to rant philosophical and forget the heart. So it would be good if I could carry it always and stay in a state of walking meditation, but I know I will forget. One day, perhaps not. For now I will remember this light each time I meditate. Plus, I feel a new purpose now. I think I know what heaven wants me to do and in what direction I should grow.

Examples of Fauve Art by Andre Derain, 1905

2/10/17

I have been thinking. (Always dangerous, ha) We have been told all our lives that God loves each and every one of us, but sometimes I wonder “How?” We have all heard of people who are about as lovable as a rock, or worse.  How can even God love such people? Then I think of Jesus who knows each of us intimately and wonder again how he could love us when even the best of us aren't worth all that infinite love.

I imagine Jesus looking at each single life from birth to death as we might watch a television show. Imagine him seeing our little traumas at age two, then graduating to real dilemmas of choice as teenagers, then adults and at every choice in life. He would see exactly what influence each life rides through. He would watch as a child from a dysfunctional home was given hate and neglect for food. He would watch a young person resolve a moral issue by giving in to the need to steal because he/she needs to have more. He could watch a person grow backwards by listening to self-aggrandizing group ideas or forwards through deeper ideas of sharing.

If our lives can play out like a television program to him, he might dismiss many of our mistakes as just signs of immaturity, like we would smile at a kindergartener who grabbed another person’s crayon. Yet, even so, at some point, even Jesus would expect us to grow up and make something of our life.  The idea that each life is a book is true enough, and we should keep in mind that Jesus is reading that book, (or watching it play out like a movie script). Well, just an idea, but a vivid one that may help us visualize how Jesus could love and tolerate even the worst of us.

And as long as the movie plays out, there is still hope.   

Feb 24, 2017

Ok, something is wrong, drastically wrong. A town in Oklahoma reached 99 degrees this February. America has always had moments of freakish weather, but never like this, areas breaking one record after another, day after day.  Most of us understand that the globe is warming up and it is affecting normal weather patterns. In fact, any sane person would come to this conclusion after looking at photos of the iceless arctic or looking at a chart of rising heat curve.

So here is the quandary:  Why and how could leaders of our new government totally disregard and ignore these facts? What goes on here? I conclude that they have their own secret reasons for ignoring reality.

· Maybe some leaders think a little heating up is good for us

· Maybe they are so selfish and greedy for wealth that they don’t care

· Maybe they know something the rest of us don’t

· Maybe they have their hidey-holes all ready for the coming disaster and piss on the rest of the population

· Maybe they choose to follow a hidden enemy who wants to destroy humanity

· Maybe they are truly ignorant and no longer follow common sense

Right now, they are making decisions that benefit the corporations who helped create this problem in the first place while telling us that they are creating jobs. The latest I have read about is allowing the coal companies to pour coal waste into rivers and streams once more because it would create 250 more jobs. Can any sane person really believe that dirtying up the environment to make it look like the 70’s again is worth those few jobs?  It took long years of struggle to clean up our rivers and air of pollution. Now our leaders have decided to carry us backwards. They are not only the ignoring the rising climate but also our crumbling infrastructure, then building invisible and real walls, and increasing nuclear arms.

Why?  I could guess that maybe they want to keep the riffraff out of America after the disaster? After all, that would be the only sane reason. Other than that, I can’t find an answer.  

Regardless, I refuse to be led and tethered by their secret or insane motive. I will not go quietly into the night.

On the upscale, it seems that cooler heads are talking common sense by assuring other nations that we don’t always follow the words of our tweeting president. Conservative though they may be, so not exactly to my liking, I see them as tiny sun rays popping through clouds where there would be only doom. Now if those same cool heads would just look at the climate and weather charts…?

As an aside, Jesus has told me that the movement of the Nibiru planet system has little effect on the weather or the rise in earth’s temperature. This problem is of our own making. But if or when the system does come closer, it will cause strange tides and maybe earthquakes. Whatever happens, we can recover if we keep our cool. That means we need to be forewarned, told what could possibly happen, then how we will fix whatever goes wrong. As I learn more, I will write it here.

Feb 25, 2017

This morning we gathered around Jesus at the well and then walked up the path, past wild flowers and spring green strewn with boulders, to the golden peak of the mountain. There, bathed in God light, we formed a circle. Then, each of us filled to the brim and bursting with God light, we dispersed to our own home area. We carry the light to other people where it can rekindle their own light or intensify faith.

I first went to Africa to hold one of the hungry babies. I filled the area around the baby with light as I held a little girl baby. She looked up at me and smiled. She will be well. Jesus promises me this. Holding a baby in need never fails to revive my feeling of empathy.

My empathy in full bloom now, I came back to America to hug and speak to various people. I first went to the south where flooding and other bad weather has hit recently. Time is not an issue when we walk in spirit so I was able to reach out to a lady who had waded through water and felt in great destress about what was happening around her. While I hugged her and spread God light, I whispered to her that the cause of the bad weather was the climate heating up and could be fixed. “We need to fix this,” I said to her, “Tell your friends and congressman.” I don’t know if she heard me, but I could tell she was a very religious person so could feel the God light penetrate her soul.

Next, I went to a young black man who was exhausted by the need to help many people in the same flood. At first he’d felt excitement at the events, but now the work was wearing thin. He felt dejected and afraid. I hugged him and repeated the comment about the climate and that we could fix the problem if we work at it. He is young and angry and felt like he wanted to do something to change things. I hoped my whisper encouraged him.

I went to an older women who felt destroyed by a tornado that had crushed her home in Texas. I shared the light with her while I hugged her and reminded her that she could rebuild, that all was not lost. I whispered to her that the extra tornados hitting the US were caused by the change in weather. The extra moisture in the air is creating havoc with our weather system. I went to many other people and repeated the same message. I even went to a women in the mostly democratic state of California who felt frightened and disgusted while looking at the damage in her home caused by flooding. It has happened to many people, I told her. You can recover from this. As I sent God light to her I repeated my message although I assumed she already understood. The people in California are very aware of climate change.

In all, I felt my spiritual walk this morning was productive. Yet, once again, I wondered if I were doing any good at all. I asked Jesus who is always by my side during these spiritual walks, “I mean, maybe I managed to get through to two or three people this morning, but considering the vast number of people to teach, it seems like a drop in the ocean.

Jesus told me, as he had a number of times, “The angels multiply the good you and the others do.”  

His words filled me with contentment and assurance. I will proudly continue teaching and spreading God’s light among anyone who will listen.

2/27/17

Does anyone think that Jesus was making a political statement when he told us to love and care for one another? Surly, he was not. Therefore, why must a person stand on one side of the political aisle or the other to dare suggest that all people should have needed health care, that all people should have access to basic needs such that Maslow described on his hierarchy of needs, or that every child should be well nurtured, enough so to seize their own constitutional pursuit of happiness.

Yes, I write of ideals, but these are the same ideals that Jesus gave us. Where does Jesus say that only liberals, or progressives or conservatives should tend to one another? Or for that matter, where does he say or hint that only Jews, or Catholics, or Protestants, or Evangelicals, or Muslims, or Buddhists practice the best kind of love.

For the most part, we are a nation of religion because most of us grew up in one of these religions. This puts a burden on us to practice what we have been taught--either through belief in Christ, Buddha, Jewish prophets, or Mohammed. (And I can promise you that Jesus, as a man/God who walks through time, had a hand in each of these religions.)

Concerning the political division in our land right now, I found this quote that defines both sides interesting. Here is a quote I read by Gary Gutting. He concludes that patriotism and the idea of freedom is a struggle and always had been. [but] “More specifically, some think freedom is essentially the right to seek wealth and happiness with minimal governmental restraint, whereas others say freedom requires governmental guarantees of basic economic security and full respect for the rights of marginalized groups.”

Jesus’ actions demonstrated freedom and choice, even to death on a cross. We choose our direction in life. Our God is a God of freedom. God gave us the ability to choose at birth and throughout life. If I can’t stand in the middle of our imaginary isle, if I must choose a side, my choice is to follow Jesus. I stand on the side that guarantees basic, economic security for all. I can do nothing else and still follow my faith.