Fireside I
It is to the Village Square that the townspeople come to exchange views and thoughts on their beloved spiritual philosophy, learning from each other in kindness and wisdom. Then when their minds have been filled, they retire to the tavern on the western side of the square where they share in social discussion, learning of each other’s events and challenges, happinesses and sometimes sadnesses, too. With a mug or glass in hand, they collect in front of the great Fireplace that dominates the long wall. Benches and chairs are often filled on market day with those who have come from farther away, bringing news of events and views the local people delight in hearing.
If you are feeling disoriented by all the philosophical talk by the fountain in the Village Square, then come sit down on the bench here with us for a while just to soothe your mind and share a mug of tea or coffee. Let’s all make sure the conversation is quiet and simple, caring and thougtful, exactly the kind of talk you might have around a warm hearth, the only light filling the room coming from the fireplace.
By the way Bernard, funny you should mention the call of the cows(#596). I was awakened yesterday morning by the call of my Mom on the phone letting me know that the neighbor had called her to tell her the cows were out and half a mile south down the highway.
Say lah v. use american phonetics i’m to lazy right now to look up correct french spelling.(-:
Pam, go round ’em up, them stray cows!
C’est la vie! But I like your phonetics better…
Hi, guys! Just got back from a few days away… Haven’t read through the ponderings yet. Will try to catch up tonight.
Welcome Back Mr. Mayor. Looks like we are on line at the same time. So cool when that happens. I was late to post today and its late morning here 10:30 am. I haven’t even fed my dog yet. But he’s so forgiving. As long as I pick him up to sit next to me he doesn’t mind waiting. Wish I could forgive so easily.
See you later and have a good weekend everyone.
Annie
Hum didy de. Swept, check. Dusted, check. Extra wood for fire place, check. Karaoke machine,check. Streamers, party favors, party lights,Party till the farmer comes home cow decorations……Hmmmm Off to the party supply store back later.
Nina’s daughter and her beau were caught tangoing recently in a sunny park in Oslo. Check out the fireside gallery to take a peek at their amazing style and class!
So Annie do you prefer to wait until Wendsday or shall we start your b-day festivities early? I think I got everything we need other than the cake. Forgot who said they were bringing it.
Nina’s daughter inspired me to bring some tango music also.
(Clears his throat, tries not to sound too official) Hmm… I really don’t want to be a stickler for protocol or nuthin’, and I really don’t feel like the Village cop (like: English Bobbie?), but… would you all mind if we try to like perhaps maybe keep you know the un-ACIM stuff perhaps like you know maybe on the well Fireside page? Perhaps…? Just kind of well helps keep the atmosphere of each page like maybe when someone comes by with a something they want to have taken seriously. Just a thought. Thanx with big kisses.
Now, I don’t want anyone suddenly submitting apologies all over the place, looking for mayoral forgiveness or anything, so don’t even try that one. (Hint, hint, girls) All those who have made the severely punishable sin of posting on the wrong page over the past week are hereby ordered into the Tavern for a face mask of hot chocolate sauce (home-made by Nina). Those who posted on the correct pages are authorized to stick smarties and sprinkles on the faces of those who wearing masks. All to the sound of “Born to be alive”, of course. (Anne will be able to help with this exercise – it seems she’s a step ahead of us in the face mask department, although it looks like she traded chocolate for green jello)
(You’re really going to laugh – I submitted that last comment on the wrong page and had to go into the control panel to fix it! Chocolate face masks for everyone!!)
First in line….slap on the chocolate I am ready!
BTW smilies are serious business…ok putting chocolate truffle in mouth. I’ll shut up now.
You know I’m kiddin Mayor…no apologies I promise!
Ohh wait…Bernard is first in line….come on girls we can have so much fun with this.
Oh how I wish Mother was around for this one.
Hi All,
I guess I had a lucid moment of playing, and wouldn’t you know it, I was in the wrong place. I’ve never made those faces before — looks like i need a better place to test them, though. That adjustable font thing is maddening.
Annie, you must have finished your coffee, and be off running by now. I’ve been remembering to tell you the Midnight Rambler was from a song by mick jagger on rolling stones album let it bleed 1969. I’m supposing the glee crew have the same source. I’ve never seen glee, don’t see much tv. Big day tomorrow, so glad you are here.
Anil, welcome to you and your wife to the good ‘U.S. of A.’. please go to starbucks and have something with american expresso in it, so you can atune to the vibration. It could be somewhere other than starbucks, but somehow i think it needs to be that one to capture the ‘new america’ — the seattle experience in dallas. I’m sure Shobha and your sister will have great fun with baby anticipation.
Nina, you must have sent me esp vibes, since that’s the first time i’ve checked the candles in over a month. You are so kind. I feel watched over while i’m sleeping — is that a job you have with Jesus and the angels?
OK, Anne, Laura, Murrill, Pam, zafu, zenbear (oh is a silly attempt at everyone) — see you tomorrow at Annie’s party.
Bernard, I did love your post to Nina that when we come to, in the middle of the night, we’re reentering the ego-zone — and get weird feelings – i thought of coming thru a membrane. And even if it is not sugar, or even oatmeal, there is something that we know of that is ‘kind’ to us, and that we can go to, to break the mesmerizing ego-script that is being shoved into our brains at that opportune moment of weakness. Then, once humming, we can be more open to the Holy Spirit’s plan to use our perception for the purpose of forgiveness and awakening.
Be back tomorrow, Love & hugs, katrina
Katrina – that humming-thing-that will be my ego-mood-breaker. Or if i am not too drowsy, I will go to the gallery and play ALL BY MYSELF and break the spell laughing. YESS! GOOD idea.
Starts hanging streamers, table cloths with dancing cows,little holstien cow party lights, chocolate ice cream & rootbeer to make brown cows, Little ceramic cow creamers for the coffee…….
Pam, are holsteins the same as herefords? The SD Rausch Herefords are my family’s cattle. I was raised a city cousin, and wonder how one tells the difference between cows. Oh I looked — holsteins are black and white spotted. Herefords are brown with while faces. So much research to do for this website!
Yea, the holsteins are most often, here in the states anyway, a milk cow. Dell computer co. used the black and white markings of the holstein as the “logo”(?) markings on their boxes ‘causing farm folk to call them cow-puters. (:
Oop’s that should of been Gateway computer not Dell
Just so that won’t be confused with the farmer ON the Dell. (:
Midnight Rambler:
Jagger: “That’s a song Keith and I really wrote together. We were on a holiday in Italy. In this very beautiful hill town, Positano, for a few nights. Why we should write such a dark song in this beautiful, sunny place, I really don’t know. We wrote everything there – the tempo changes, everything. And I’m playing the harmonica in these little cafés, and there’s Keith with the guitar.”
Boy I was way off Katrina! Thanks for coming back to that…from serial killer to glee its like we were playing telephone and I heard something totally different. Its actually quite amusing and I’m seeing how projection and my personal life experiences paint the world I live in. ( I did live in a bubble back in the 60’s and obviously still do!) One of the main reasons I enjoyed the documentary of the Rolling Stones by Sorcesse it allowed me to catch up on a phenomena that I lived through but was completely oblivious to.
Now stick with me on this one as my thought process is reminding me of how this thing called the brain works. During the time of the OJ Simpson saga that consumed LA and I know most of the Nation. I recall when they were in the middle of jury selections and a comment was made that it would be impossible to find an unbiased juror, someone who hasn’t heard of OJ. Well I was almosted tempted to call the DA cuz my father would have been a dream juror for the prosecution (if its not International politics or Sudoku well back in the day it was chess- my dad didn’t know it existed) So you can see how his little girl grew up not knowing all things important like rock n roll, baseball, and apple pie. She likes Tiramisu…
getting ready for my party…love the cow theme (I’m a big fan of half and half) No lactose intolerance here!
Oh and Pam the Gateway /Farmer On the Dell comment ….ding ding ding …was a winner!
Thanks for keeping me laughing everyone. Your the Best!
Annie
Anne, so strange to come here and see “living in a bubble back in the 60ies…” on swedish TV they are now sending a series of films from “the new vogue” in the 60-es…my youth…I remember how my age(early twentes)and friends (art-students) were completely enamored about them: SOO cool! this is true life! SOOO intellecuel!
seeing ” A bout de souffle” (To the last breath)with American Jean Seeberg and jean-Paul Belmondo.
How in the WORLD is it possible that relatively smart young people(me and my generation) can go for those dreadful clichés? gangster/murderer without mimic at all, chain smoking the whole film, psychopath..he’s talking of love…(meaning he wants to have sex with Seeberg)and they speak ONLY in clichés…and the sentences that we before saw as “deep” (because we thought they were supposed to b ) are seen now as completely E M P T Y … hollow
oh perception
oh perception by groups, trying to belong
completely incredible that we went for anything like that…and these films are famous…
jeeshes
I am even less willing to believe in perception ( mine)
how empty must have felt, buying antyhing of that
YOHO {{{Ruth-Anne}}} how great to hear about your moving-plans! where too?
and then – connection again…how is that for a symbol LOL
My dear sweet Nina. You have been such a help to me while I was “disconnected” LOL. On this board and everywhere. Thank-you for your help and your grace. I am very grateful to have you in my life….
I just wanted to say this about
Ruth-Anne so good to see you and I can speak for all here that we can’t wait to catch up on all that has been going on. Moving is a top ten seismic stressor no matter how good. So take your time and I’m sure Anne will lend you her pick up truck XD. We are all good friends so don’t hesitate to ask for help. I’ll pack up the kitchen…love wrapping all the breakables in paper for a safe transport.
I’m still recovering from the virtual move from monasterial life to village life. It was good to have lived a minimalist lifestyle the transition was quick. (at least physically) I will try and not become a pack rat here in the Village. I know I’m not as sentimental as I used to be and its easy to give things away now simply because I treasure seeing joy in someone face more than anything else. And yes Katrina I did see that the silent ones are with us. That just warms my heart. I still slip into my robe and remove my shoes and quietly walk the halls of the monastery in the early morning hours. The Vigil room is where the heart connection can still be made.
Anil, I had to hunt down #488 as the next days question has already replaced it. Thank you for bringing that to my attention I don’t always get to the Q & A’s. I too enjoyed Ken’s gift of clarity. His ability to communicate our task at hand is always gentle, clear and simple but as they say, not always easy. I love your frequent stops at the Village and I don’t want your vacation to end. Are you in Dallas now?
Lisi before I forget I wanted to tell you that garlic bread is my weakness! How did you know? Looks like you have been extra busy lately as I have missed you and your happy smile. Keep us posted with what is going on down there in Baja California. Maybe Zenbear will come visit if his “girl” can make the cross country trip.
T.S. Laura thanks for reminding me that Lawrence owes me a horoscope…I’m going to ask Bernard to give him a jingle once he gets his face out of that cake. Now we know how he’s been studying the Course! Gosh I miss him and his blessings.
I need to get busy and write all my thank you notes for my most wonderful party. Again I can’t thank you all enough. There’s another sunrise going on now…so please excuse me and I’ll see you all tomorrow. Have a Beautiful Day.
Hugs,
Annie
Hi, everyone. I’m still away from home. Will be back in a few days. I’m so happy to see all the fun you’ve been sharing. Lots of love, will write soon; B.
good night family
I love you so much
G’night, Nina. Wish you happy dreams.
I did catch the movie ‘Eat Pray Love’ today. As usual nowhere near as good as the book. I like seeing movies when I don’t know the actors so tha I can get lost in the story and not have thoughts like: “Julia must have gotten botox for that upper lip”. All the celebrity news distracts me …I don’t like knowing about their personal lives as it taints their on screen characters for me. ( George Clooney is the only exception ) Anywho, the movie was a bit too long (over two hours) but don’t worry I’m not going to talk about the movie. I actually want to share what happened in the theatre during the movie. I went with my girlfriend Keiko. (Mark, my movie slut husband choose to see “The Switch” this weekend felt it would involve less thinking) You can see why I have to resort to name calling …oh darn, I said I would be kind or say nothing at all….Jiminey Cricket!
Anyway, do you all have the Arclight Theatres in your home towns? They have assigned seating like real theatres and don’t do previews (well ok just really short trailers) but the movie starts on time and they don’t let anyone in once the show has started. The tickets cost a bit more as it tries to weed out unruly movie watchers, texters, talkers, babies..etc.) I told you I was a movie snob. Well the point is of all the years of going to movies without all these restrictions something like this has never happened to me before. I chose to sit in the isle with the extra leg room both for the comfort and the conveinience of no one sitting directly infront. Somewhere about 1/3 of the way into the movie this old lady is slowly walking down the isle as if she’s looking for her seat. She appears lost and a bit disoriented. There are no empty seats but she approaches each of us as if she is trying to recognize a familiar face. She leans in and takes a drink out of the cup holder and removes the bucket of popcorn from this womens lap seated 2 chairs down from me and says this is mine, and then walks back to where she came from. We all stared at each other stunned. You can see she was not in her “right mind” which being course students, who really is? The lady whose goodies were taken didn’t make a fuss and I’m sure if this happened in any other movie that would not have been the case. I mean how can you get upset when the scene playing out on the silver screen was about sharing a meal with family and friends. This poor lady must have been hungry.
About fifteen minutes after that I needed to use the facilties (I know, I know) unlike “Inception” I had no reason to hurry. I didn’t get it at first why my friend Keiko’s eyes were so wide open, a look of “can you believe this” that’s when I noticed my seat was taken by our food snatching neighbor. Apparently, she was playing goldielocks and thought my seat was just right! The whole row was watching what I would do…well I just kept on walking without a pause to the end of the isle and folded my hands in that Namaste gesture toward her as I took my seat. I wasn’t upset in the least. In fact, I thought it was quite comical. It was the best part of the movie for me. Maybe I’m not such a snob after all. E A T L O V E P R A Y
Annie, I get chills and laugh when i read about that ol lady. Isn’t it sumthin else when we start to realize that she is just a figure in your dream .- and so are everyone?
I learned alot about these kind of not-ordinary-minded people when i was reading for the old people. The old lady at the cinema was just another place that you :::giggles::: and you did not take it seriously – how sweet to read.
Some of the oldies I talked to were living in two worlds, switching from one to the other. In their “old” mind they were still living at home, their parents were alive (this woman was in her 90-ies 🙂 juts being listened to was very healthy for them I think – or kind.
I think my chill comes from the fact that you met her in this NOW with no interpretation at all. It seems that you saw her as your teacher, maybe?
Did I tell you this before? if so, sorry. But talk about bizarre teachings – here is one of mine:
on the bus home an early evening. My neighbor beside me is talking loudly and seems drunken. I am demonstrative silent – drunk people scare me and bother me in their unpredictability.
When she stands to get off, and i too stand up to let her pass, she looks me right in the face and say, without as much as a tiny slur:
Do you get it now?
and exits.
Maybe what I was supposed to get was,Never believe in your own perceptions that all people ARE what they show you. You have no way of judging what you see.
good reminder. I think i will have use for that today.
Yes, and I am also sharing with you all that I have started my own acimblog – to explore how the process of dayly bloging the acim process is. If somebody is interested, I’ll send you a link. My email : – leelah11 and then gmail.com
Yes, and Jane from the Monastery just mailed me an answer to something and also told me that she will very soon withdraw as a first-line admin, so the old emailadress of jane@ monastery will not be able to use any longer.
Wonderful to see that Jamie’s mail-pressure seems to have abated.
Love and hugs all around
Nina
Nina – congrats on starting your blog. Will write you separately for the link.
Annie – was in Dallas till yesterday. (Shobha is still there). Came to NYC and Boston for some work this week.
Am going through one of those blah phases that i reckon most of us are familiar with (:
More later,
love,
a
Link to Nina’s blog: : http://ninotchka44.wordpress.com/.
Blahs be Gone!
Wish we could all hop on a plane and meet you for dinner tonight Anil!
Sending blasts of Love your ways {{{Anil}}}
Thanks, Annie –
You cheer me up. Or should I be Coursey and say that I see the Christ in You, the reflection of my own innocent self, and in that moment, you and I are free.
Nah (: — I think I’ll stick with “You cheer me up”. Yes, it is a special relationship, but hey – that’s what I do 99.9% of the time. And it’s OK – I’m not expected to be without my limitations !! (:
I got a growing feeling in me gut that one day we will definitely have dinner together. (Tonight would also have been great, but no jetplane that can be arranged on short notice (: —–
The blahs are moving – your blasts of Love are making their presence felt in a rainy, beautiful NYC this afternoon.
Love,
a
Big brutherly hugs to Anil and his blaaahs. Okay, for anyone who can make it, dinner with Anil tonight in NYC, where do you suggest? Any good places to eat in the city? (right, silly question, I know). It’s a peaceful little village, NYC, no? East-West books on Broadway was where I bought my first copy of the blue bible. Happy wanderings in the big apple.
Great stories from Annie and Nina.
We just came back from a few days away in the van, on the coast near Bordeaux. I’m not sure I was the best company for Pat. I’ve been a bit preoccupied by my lack of professional activity, and in France everyone kicks back into action for the big ‘rentrée’, or the ‘return’ as they call it, after the summer hols. Wish I had something to kick into action! Sometimes it’s just too hard to make this Course work. Just have to step back and say, nah, it just ain’t working right now. And then try to not feel guilty about that! Any ideas?
Bernard, are you asking for ideas of starting a business? finding a job that is not building? I think I remember that you told us about wanting to go into coaching of some sort, related to ACIM – am i wrong? maybe do some training in a coaching-related business? your former wife might give some advice – she’s having a teleclass-workshop soon which i am going to attend, about transforming guilt.
I mean Bernie, countless of times have you given advice and written posts that i find very very helpful. Others will find that too.
these are my ideas, and i stand by them ! 🙂
Thanks, Bernard !!
I was thinking of finding a book-store, maybe I will find East-West books and visit. I’m staying with a friend in mid-town on 7th ave, so Broadway is a stone’s throw away.
On your.our recent malaise – agree completely – the Course is a very difficult process and it’s very hard to make it work sometimes. I don’t have any specific ideas for you right now, but I do think I have to be ready to accept, to whatever degree I can, that the Course correction process is quite a difficult one, but there are rewards along the way !! (:
OK – right now, I’m having a hard time seeing the rewards !! (: but I do see the benefits of the Village, and our ability to connect across distances, and somehow that can be a very helpful thing on the path.
I’m not making much sense to myself, but that’s OK (: – I’m going to hit the submit button anyway…
Hugs, my friend – may your/our restlessness/blahs/whatever lift away. take good care, lots of love,
a
nattahug to last speaker: we are here at the same time, Anil ( if you didn’t just run to the book-shop)
Yay, Nina !!
I”m here. Good to be virtually connected at the same instant (: (although the time stamp tells me i may have missed you by 9 minutes (: so near, yet so far (:
{{{{{Anil}}}}
How’s the weather today in your neck of the Village? So it was raining in New York yesterday Anil that couldn’t be good for the Blaahs? Glad you didn’t let that keep you from walking the city. It’s not suppose to rain when you’re on vacation even if its a working vacation. Dang can’t they leave you alone? Look at me getting all worked up that they are taking up all your time and keeping you from sharing endless hours here with us let alone Shobha and your family.
LA is heating up and it should be another hot one today. I am off work and need to get as much done around the house before it gets unbareable. We have this water conservation thing we are suppose to adhere to (water before 9am or after 5pm only 3 days a week) its just not enough water for these temperatures.
Nina that line “do you get in now” from the drunken lady was priceless! It is amazing to sit with all the thoughts that race through ones mind when you think you are perceiving someone who is not in their right mind. I am such a rule follower that I do feel grateful when I can see the rules broken and nothing terrible happens.
Clearly there is nothing to do but observe. I have to share with you all that I decided to copy and paste what I wrote in the Village yesterday about my movie experience and sent it as an email to some personal friends. This was a response I got from one of my nursing friends:
Too funny!!!! Poor old lady….maybe she was in the middle of a TIA?? Did you do a neurological assessment??? I figure that since she was helping herself to everyone’s food and seating, that perhaps she could have swipped your nursing skills too…hmmm-just a thought…:)
Anyways, I’d like to differ on the title…although the verbiage doesn’t flow as well, since they included the word ‘pray’ in the title, shouldn’t the title have been ordered more Biblically correct and therefore called, LOVE, Pray (then) Eat? ??????? Just wondering…your thoughts?
~c
Then I responded:
I don’t think God cares in what order we find Love. All roads lead to Love.
The Bible is the quickest path but not the only path.
Hugs,
Annie
She’s a born a again if you haven’t noticed (so the quickest path for her is the Bible) but I wasn’t gonna get into it with her. Ok so maybe my response was a bit curt. She doesn’t know anything about my Course interest and it would probably end the relationship if I went there. The only reason I am sharing this is because of course her comment pissed me off (judging me for judging the lady instead of helping her… a ‘real’ nurse would intervene and do a neurological assement on the theatre floor) I know you my Course buddies get me so sometimes sharing these stories among my like minded friends isn’t necessarily gonna get me home faster. Isn’t that a bitch! I come here thinking my sharing with my Course buddies is gonna accelerate my process when in reality I should be spending more time with those that haven’t even heard of the Course.
I am not upset for the reason I think. It’s effin everywhere! So now I hear the drunken ladys voice from Norge talking to me saying “Do you get it Now”.
Thanks for listening and good luck out there!
Toooo funny, Annie! And I didn’t even see the judgment in your friend’s response until you pointed it out to me! I loved your story about the lady. And you just went along with the whole thing so calmly. I’ll definitely remember that if/when something similar happens to me.
Thanks for your reminder, Nina. I just don’t feel up to that coaching idea right now. It would take a certain amount of re-training on my part to get those skills, and a lot of marketing to begin to make a profession out of it. But I think I’m going through a phase of really lacking confidence and/or an intuitive sense of the right direction. I’m also thinking of opening up a little crepe restaurant/stand, creating a one-man mini educational story-telling on Australia I’d take to schools, and becoming a stand-in local ‘minister’ for the English population here in the Southwest of France who have no spiritual guidance/support in this foreign land. There’s a choice for you!!
Thanks for your support, Anil. I do see the value of the Village, my friends and their kindness, and also in the parties, cakes and muffins, even if they are virtual! glad you’re hitting that submit button more easily now!
{{{Bernard}}}. No signal lol.. I don’t dare more
Oh Bernard…I’do all: the one-man-story-teller could make crepes to the audience, who would only be english-speaking, and the story-teller would sneak in ministry-thingy’s in the Australian educational storytelling, so that whan the show was over, everybody would exit feeling saved – and telling all their english-speaking friends about it.
And you could sing the whole story ….and have australian slides too… and maybe some educational dances…a whole new way of saving englishspeaking souls. And about time, too!
Oh yeah oh yeah listen to the truthsayer
Im just sayin
oh well
la la la
Bernard: I think our ego is very clever and yours in this moment is terrified of disappearing because for the last months you have been in very closed contact with Jesus and H.S. Sometimes it is easier to look at this from the outside. All what you have done for the past months, namely, for the Village and for all of us is right minded. You are giving us such love in the form of all your loving and caring answers to all of us, not to mention your beautiful Mayor´s posts. I am sure we all agree that the content of all this is love and love is really scary for our egos. I don´t want to be preachy but I think the best thing now is just wait for the fear to abate. Gently and calmly. Remember that our egos love to have us running, running, working, working, without a minute for what Annie beautiful said the other day: SILENT=LISTEN.
I am sure these clouds are going to pass like all clouds pass and the only thing that will remain is the all encompassing love that is with all of us all the time and that is going to show you what´s next. In my little journal book I am writing every day: “I will step back and let you lead my way”. Not always works, but when I do remember I feel a soft presence and a smile next to me.
Lots of hugs and much love to all.
Lisi
The only reason I am sharing this is because of course her comment pissed me off (judging me for judging the lady instead of helping her… a ‘real’ nurse would intervene and do a neurological assement on the theatre floor)
Annie,
If I may….I didn’t read what you did at all! I though she was simply tossing around some humor in language you both understand…..And Bernard didn’t catch it either until you described your reaction…..So perhaps this was not “real” except that perception made it seem so?
Lisi, thanks for your kind words. Your honesty is not preachy at all. And I appreciate your thoughts and support. I had considered that this is just more ego kick-back, so I’ll wait it out a little, as you suggest. It is true, however, that I do also need a professional activity, although I’m sure I can learn to see the situation a little differently.
Yes, Nina, I might end up dressed as an Australian bushman selling crepes to the spiritually needy English community! Why not…?
Thank you Murrill for asking that I look again and reconsider not seeing my friends words as judging. We, my friend “c” and I both use humor to deflect our pain. In that way we are very much alike. And like most special relationship we can get real good at reading between the lines. The words appear innocent enough but history has a way of slipping in a dig or two. So there were two lessons for me to review with that encounter. One, like you mentioned was that my perception made it seem so. Correcting that would automatically keep me from compounding the problem by my knee jerk reaction in my reponse to her. As much as I was offended by her comment what really appalled me was that I put on my holier than thou robes and sent off a curt response…oh the words seemed innocent enough but they were laden with venom. Maybe you didn’t feel it but by me posting it here to review I quickly saw how I stabbed my sister in the back while I was giving her a hug.
Again, my morning journaling here at the Village has served me well in keeping me honest. That is what I am grateful for. The ego is ugly and vicious and I want to expose her. There is no where for her to hide anymore. That is the purpose of my posting.
Ok so now my fear is that if I write “hugs” to you all – that you may not trust me anymore. But I refuse to believe the ego and her scare tactics, I can play this game as I have Mighty Companions beside me…..yes you!
Lisi #644 is beautiful. Let me join you in giving thanks for Bernard and his loving support of us. The world can not recognize the gift he has given but the Holy Spirit has restored a higher order and surely what will follow will be fruitful. This banquet of love we share in nutures our souls and in turn where ever we are the gifts continue to multiple. So whatever you choose to do Bernard…do it with your whole heart and no matter what you choose it will have been exactly the right choice. And so it is for all of us.
See you all tomorrow,
Annie
Hey Bernard google The Pancake Man. He does fundraisers here in Nebraska. If he can do it with pancakes, why not you with crepes?(:
Annie re#647. I think what we do here is Trust the Right Minded Hugs while gently pointing out the wrong minded stab in the back while recognizing the illusion that the knife is a theaterical prop and the blade slips harmlessly up into the handle. Hmmmm the body is a prop also.LOL HUGS