Archive for May, 2008

Does the river get tired of flowing……

{ May 22, 2008 @ 10:07 pm } · { Self Jouney }
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My husband uttered these words to me today. I was explaining to him a situation in which a discussion based on finding our purpose in life and understanding ourselves ended with the ego emerging within the very beings trying to disidentify with the ego.  It just blew my mind…

I had this epiphany. Many of us have experiences and choose the journies to which we will explore and grow. Today, I realized that many people who have been down particular journies find it an annoyance to see other’s walking down that same journey. The annoyance comes in that been there and done that attitude. You know it very well - “I did that already” - when those of us new to the journey annoy others. But why do we annoy others with our journies? I really don’t know and you would think that they would be a source of knowledge and example. Instead I saw grown ladies react from their ego.

This quote my husband said, says it all. Just because the river constantly flows down the same path, does it mean it gets tired of flowing. I would have hoped that  this enlightment would help me to facilitate or take away with me the very essense of what it means to find my purpose..just as Tolle’s journey has inspired millions.

Open Letter to Superdelegates - We NEED Clinton

{ May 14, 2008 @ 9:34 am } · { Politics }
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The voter’s voice is the most important reason you are in office. While I understand that the money you fundraise during your terms takes a majority of your time - I can’t imagine that you can sit back and hand over your votes to a candidate that cannot win in November.  You handed the voters of West Virginia an insult when you added your votes to Obama’s campaign.

This delegate process must change!  It’s stupid. I can’t offer more intelligent terms when the terms of defining our Democratic nominee is plain stupid.  Senator Clinton has won the votes needed in the states that swing the elections. Do you see the patterns or do you have too many happy-hooked-on-hope interns doing the work for you?  Review your facts and don’t buy into the hope agenda. The more I learn about Senator Obama and the influences that have shaped his life - I can’t trust him. My heart tells me not to put my trust in him. Faith alone tells me he is the wrong candidate - at this time. He has some hard work ahead of him and maybe those years of experience will make him a better candidate - but not this time around.

Hope - this world is built on hope. Where has hope put us? I can answer that - high gas prices, school tax, PACS, war, food prices, more taxes, and an uneven playing field for women.

I cannot live on hope. I need change and Mrs. Clinton can make that change for me. She has the experience we need to run this country. She has the fierceness to take this country by storm and has the heart to help the working class succeed in life. She has results. She has experience - first hand experience at best.

As a woman, we need the world to stand up today and say it’s our time! We have been second fiddle and sometimes third, fourth and dead last in this world due to our gender. We make less, we get looked over for promotions, and get dealt less rights while trying to keep our homes safe for our children. We cannot be equal to men unless we become men.  Why can’t I be a beautiful, feminine, loving woman who can be an equal to a man? Why can’t I be a beautiful, feminine, loving professional sports player?  Stand up women of this world and make your claim! If we are not united, we are divided and will forever play the catch-up game of life….

Senator Clinton has my vote! Without her, we are doomed…..

“I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through - listen to this music.” -Hafiz

{ May 13, 2008 @ 12:01 pm } · { Self Jouney }
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“I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through - listen to this music.” -Hafiz

I read these beautiful words from Hafiz last week and since then these words have provided the mind with nothing but contemplation. Just the words alone resonated within my Being and captured my imagination. I find myself pondering and consumed by my thoughts about this very quote. It surely was not the intention to draw me back into the ego and a clouded mind - but I find myself just constantly inundated by thoughts.

 

Painstakingly, the need to write down feelings, thoughts, rants, raves, or plain words drives the insanity of this busy mind. The need to write is an outlet and freedom from enslaving thoughts. So here I am.

 

Lately, my journey to find myself has almost come full circle. Reading “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle has definitely changed who I am. I am calmer if you can believe that. I have had others tell me so as well.

 

There must be a need to pen on paper that offers insight to me. When I read the words, I can imagine a flute and Christ’s spirit moving through each hole – producing beautiful, calming, and moving music. Each note played results from the marriage of our very being and Christ. While not just Christ in the physical sense of form but the very spirit for which He is – God.

 

In the beginning when God created man, he gave life to “man” by breathing into his nostrils.

 

GEN 2:7 the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.

 

Each one of us was given life through the Breath of Life.  Each Being born is given life through this same breath. Without our breath, we cannot live. Our body (form) dies when we cannot breathe. Without your first breath, you cannot live. Have you ever pondered how important it is to breathe? This very thought brings me back to the moment my daughter was born. At that very moment of being born into this world, she did not cry and my heart sunk. My next moment was waiting for her to take that first breath and than I heard it. Tears of joy streamed down my face because God had given her the Breath of Life. Nevertheless, at that time – I did not have any concept of what and how life was gifted.

 

Christ – the human form of God – lived to show us how to live. I truly believe this and I believe that God continues to show himself to us today – but constantly miss him. It’s very easy to get lost in the “beware of the wolf in sheep clothing” stigma.  Think about the last time you used this very same quote – truly trust in these words will help you miss God.

 

I trust that the answers lie within me and this embarks me on a journey of trust. I am the very spirit that God breathed into me and Christ became that spirit to show me how to accept suffering and how to live. To recognize my being and learning to be still, I can listen more closely to very breath that lives within me.

 

Punishment - Hooks

{ May 8, 2008 @ 10:33 am } · { Punishment 101 }
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 ”15 Fish Hooks Surround Dog’s Neck - News Story - WPXI Pittsburgh”
http://www.wpxi.com/news/16199037/detail.html?taf=burg

I cannot tell you how disgusted I am about a human being who hurts animals. This animal was found with fish hooks attached to the inside of it’s collar. The collar was found to be extremely tight which allowed the fish hooks to dig into the flesh of the dog! Unacceptable!

Animals are great living creatures that offer companionship, love, and joy. We live in a world were animals don’t have jobs anymore. We no longer toil all day and use the strengths and gifts of animals to help us with daily living. They have been marginalized to mere possessions. We must care for them and offer them love not torture.

Punishment - The person or person’s responsible will be punished. On planet Punishment they will live out one year for every hook in this punishment. However, the punishment will not run concurrent. The person’s responsible will be allowed to serve every other year. So a total of 30 years will be needed to satisfy the punishment. The punishment is as follows:

For 365 days,  at sunrise 15 hooks will be used to suspend the criminal and at sunset they will be taken down and hooks removed. The next year they will live freely on planet Punishment. After the year of free living is over, they will then begin their punishment phase all over again - for the next 30 years! There is no room for mercy because mercy was not shown to the dog involved in this case.

Signed, Queen of Punishment.

Punishment 101

{ May 8, 2008 @ 10:19 am } · { Punishment 101 }
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I’ve decided to write about news stories and offer my own punishment for those involved. We all know that when we read news story about everyday life suffering - we wish death or worse on those who are responsible. But we all know that the death penalty does not curtail crime because, if it did we would see a decrease of people in croweded jails, daily arrests, and money spent on crime.

However, there’s little dicks and cunning mary’s out their who evade the law, who destroy lives, and injure the helpless…In my world called Punishment, I will decide what their punishment will be. I am NOT deciding their fate - people decide their own fate by the choices they make and how they feed their selfish egos. Punishment is a planet where you are sent to live out the punishment handed down by me.

It is for the mere ridicule of your ego and the injury you have caused on others - all life. 

LIfe is precious. I emphasize life, because life means every  living breathing being - human, animal, plant, earth, young, and old. If God could have breathed in her Breath of LIfe into the it’s nostrils then’s it’s alive! GEN 2:7 the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.

Each article will be catagorized as Punishment 101 - hope you enjoy reading the demented punishments out of my mind that are initiated out of pure rage and hatred for people who hurt life….my ego needs an outlet and it’s best done in words.

Our Lady of the Lake on Fire!

{ May 6, 2008 @ 8:58 pm } · { Self Jouney }
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I cannot believe that the Lake is on fire! I graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Commerce. I had a great time and learned so much about myself and life in general while at the Lake.  I also started my journey for continuing to receive my Sacraments and met my future husband, Jimmy. Jimmy graduated in 2003. Holding back tears at the moment, I am watching as this historic time in my life burns.

While the building (hopefully) can be rebuilt, the emotional ties to the Lake cannot be relived. The beauty and love in this building can never be replaced. I remember walking through the halls and feeling a great Presence - filled with comfort, love, and happiness. I have fond memories of spending many sleepness nights on the 3rd floor in the computer lab working on homework or cramming for last minute tests.  The fire that threatens the very building is right above, if not by now, the 3rd floor.

I pray that God helps the Lake community and gives us the avenue to rebuild this school. While we were the Armadillos when we were there, we are now the Saints! Behind you Saints!