In the Pursuit of Healing, Love, and Understanding
There comes a time in life where those regrets and remorse that are shoved deep down in your closet get a chance for rebirth and maybe even redeption. Maybe you don't even know you need a do-over. Maybe you have convinced yourself that the pain you feel for your action or inaction isn't real or a big deal. Maybe in your self-punishment or self-loathing you punish yourself and have become so accustomed to … [Read more...]
Nothing like a pretty song to usher in the Christmas spirit. This is a north American slaves spiritual chant (Gospel): "Julia Yasuda : Way down yonder in the graveyard walk I thank God I'm free at last Me and my Jesus going to meet and talk I thank God I'm free at last On my knees when the light pass'd by I thank God I'm free at last Tho't my soul would rise and fly I thank God I'm free at … [Read more...]
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies Aristotle This is the last line that I wrote to her and for that I am grateful. When death occurs one always asks themselves what note they left the relationship on and do they know how much we love them. Our love went without saying but I still like the tangible "I love You" for comfort. She is gone and now traveling elsewhere. I will forever miss … [Read more...]
There is beauty in letting go and moving on. Holding on is not in tune with time and change, which is the way of this world. Everything is seasonal. I have been waiting for a long time to move on....and time calls me to the front of the line and reminds me that it's my turn. There is a lot of waiting around down here on earth. *Change calls our ticket not so much when we want it but when Change is ready … [Read more...]
When I think of the word change I immediately think that there are many things that don’t change, there are things that change at a slow rate and are a blending of the old and new and there are things that look entirely different after change has had its way with someone. Change is a process that varies in length and a process that implies the necessary ingredient of time. I may pridefully think that a … [Read more...]
Living apart from family members (especially my family of origin) is difficult and induces something of a soft ache in my being. The parting brings a heart wrenching pain in my heart (at least that reminds me that I have one ). I keep that reality tucked in the recesses of my mind for the most part but the missing becomes evident when I am around them to visit and have to separate again and go back home. I … [Read more...]
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Nietzsche Have you ever felt that you have too many material things (aka-anything of this world) around you? So much so that you couldn't hear yourself anymore.... … [Read more...]
"Love is the only force which can make things one without destroying them. … Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Through a recent family death I was able to begin again with someone who I have always had … [Read more...]
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Lately finding myself in the light of spirituality has forced me to find new roads and ways to aid me in the journey within. It is time. For me there is a constant battle between forgetting and remembering; the macrocosm (spirit) and the microcosm (humanness); and the … [Read more...]
"Where the doors are moaning all day long, Where the stairs are leaning dusk 'till dawn, Where the windows are breathing in the light, Where the rooms are a collection of our lives, This is a place where I don't feel alone This is a place that I call my home..." The Cinematic Orchestra A home is one of the places that I feel safety from and use as a sanctuary from this world. I once had a home that I … [Read more...]