LOVE WORKS DAILY – Melting Away
LOVE WORKS DAILY – Melting Away
02/25/08
I wonder why nothin' ever seems to go my way
But every time I see you
I get that same old feelin'
And my blues just melt away, melt away
The world's not waiting just for me
The world don't care what I can be
I feel just like an island
Until I see you smilin'
And my blues just melt away, melt away
- Brian Wilson
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
It rained last night.
Why that is significant is because it was raining on top of 4 feet of snow in our yard.
This has been one of the biggest snow years here in southern Oregon in about 10 years or more. Plus it has been very cold.
In the past, I have written about getting out vehicles stuck, and how frustrating it was to me because I would just do the same things over and over again and keep getting stuck, and keep wondering why.
You know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
This year we have been stuck 12 times in various vehicles and at various times.
One time, our car just left!
Parked at the top of a hill, it simply had vanished when we returned, only to be located in the ditch, in the bushes, at the bottom of the hill.
The difference is that this year, everyone was getting stuck. There was a week in which it snowed at least 6 inches each day, all week long. You’d get dug out, and be buried again by morning.
The difference this year, was that everyone knew we had some big problems, all of us together, the whole community.
The difference this year, was that instead of feeling alone out in the wilderness with our car, (The first year we dug ourselves out all alone, every time.) this year we were part of community.
We weren’t just faces at the side of the road with a stuck car that you could just drive by. We were people that other people knew. People that other people cared about.
Now with the rain coming, and the huge snow melting, will come the mud. Deep mud.
Like here is maybe a little different than where you live because many many people live on unpaved roads. And simply getting to and from your home can be a nightmare.
Especially is you feel like you have to do it all alone.
It’s a shame that we can’t, or don’t, stop for strangers anymore. It’s too bad that fear has overtaken our desire for community and togetherness. I’ve had quite a few people in this small town stop and help us. We didn’t know them at all, and we were out in the middle of nowhere, in the pitch dark. But this is rare in the world anymore.
Several years ago, our van broke down at the side of the freeway, and we sat there for 3 hours before someone would even stop. Surprisingly, Even several police officers whizzed right by. The person who finally stopped was only willing to call on her cell phone, and would only roll down her window a crack to talk to me, and then drove off. We waited another hour for anyone to arrive.
At the risk of sounding cliché (while using a cliché to introduce my topic!), it seems like a different world than it used to be. At least different than the world that my parents and grandparents described. In the ‘olden days”, pretty much everyone was community, and even the bad guys weren’t usually all that bad. That’s how Little House on the Prairie, and The Waltons, and Leave It to Beaver portrayed it, anyway.
I wish it were more like that.
One of the biggest enemies of Love is fear. Fear keeps us from loving our neighbors as we should.
And my whole life I have been told to fear the unknown, never pick up hitchhikers, and never accept gifts from strangers.
Remember the “razor blade in the apple” stories from Halloween. Poisoned candy? Never eat anything that is not factory sealed?
Halloween went from being “fun” scary, to being “truly” frightening.
There has always been bad guys out there. And there always will be I’m sure.
But we can do things to help the fear start melting away.
One of the biggest ways is to simply start saying HELLO, and waving, and talking with our neighbors and the people we see on the street.
Out here on country roads, if you don’t wave, even to a stranger, you are considered rude.
We can learn to be community. To get to know each other, and become a support to each other.
The idea of putting ourselves out there is a little scary all by itself.
Not everyone wants to be a friend.
But whether you live in a small town, or a big city. I think the world would be a better place it we stopped and took the time to “be together”.
Maybe then we can roll down our window all the way, and say “Hey, You need a hand?”
And they answer could be “Yes, my friend, I do. Thank you so much!”
Sounds scary? A little. But Love isn’t always the easiest thing to do, but it is always the right thing to do.
Things can be a little different, starting with YOU, starting right now.
I hope you will join me in taking a moment to say hi or wave to a stranger. You can do it from a distance.
Tomorrow, as the fear starts melting away between us, maybe that distance can be a little shorter.
LOVE TO YOU AND YOURS THIS BLESSED DAY!
LOVE WORKS!
©2008 Timothy Henry
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/15/07 - HAVING A BAD DREAM
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/15/07 - HAVING A BAD DREAM
Happy June To You! Wishing you best of blessings
in this first month of summer!
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(Great Thoughts By History's Inspired Thinking Men and Women)
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
TIM's BLOG
(Random Thoughts and Tim's Daily World):
This was a truly sad and happy moment for me. The wonder of being
a small child. It made me cry as well. I hope you enjoy.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
(Brand New and Classic Love Works Essays 2001-2007)
My youngest son woke up crying this morning. I had woke up
to put the hot water on the stove to heat for the morning baths,
and when I came back to bed, he was in tears.
"What's the matter?", I inquired.
"Bad dream. (sob) I had a bad dream..." He said, tears
rolling down his face.
"OK, OK...just a dream...everythings fine."
"OK" he said, still crying.
This must have been a terrible dream.
I know about terrible dreams.
The kind where you are chased by a bad guy all night long.
Or you are hanging from the edge of a cliff.
I've woke up in sweats after having a dream that I thought I
had lost my wife and kids in an accident.
Fires.
Explosions.
Wars.
Wandering endlessly in the desert.
Going to jail.
Being endlessly lost.
Being buried alive.
Being trapped.
Being naked
Being shot at.
Being shot.
Aliens.
Monsters.
Financial ruin.
Public humilation.
Scandal.
Being tortured.
Being confused and disoriented.
Watching others die.
Having heart attacks or other painful episodes.
Car crashes.
Having others commit suicide because of you.
You name it.
If you can think of bad dreams. At one time or another.
I've had them.
Now, I don't have bad dreams all the time.
But when I have them, they are usually pretty bad.
Pretty memorable.
So I sat with my crying son, at the edge of his bed, and
asked....
"Do you remember your dream?"
"YES"
"What was it?
"It was a birthday party.....(He cries loudly!)
Oh no...
It was bad....a bad monster....a bad guy with a gun....
he saw his friends get killed, or maybe even his mom
and dad or siblings....This is terrible.
I cannot imagine a scene worse than something happening bad
at a birthday party. Especially for a young boy.
Birthday parties are such happy and fun times, and
to have some scary, horrible, frightening thing happen
at a birthday party, that must have been so hard to deal with....
So I just had to know.
I had to comfort him.
I had to let him know it was just a dream, and we were all
OK..and we loved him so much.
I felt so bad for him. What could it have been?
"What happened at the Birthday party?", I asked, fearing
to hear what he would say, "It's OK, we're here now, it was just
a dream you can tell me...What happened?"
He cried some more...not wanting to tell me.
"Please tell Dad about you dream...Were you scared?"
No...
"Were you hurt?"
No....
"Were you sad?"
Yes.....(he still sobs but less because I now had put into
words what he was feeling)
"You were really, really sad?
Yes....
Oh no...I don't want to hear it....but I ask it anyway...
"Why? Why were you sad at the Birthday Party?"
He pauses, and then in a quiet voice before he starts crying again
he says....
"Because...it was over!..
...We had to go home....
I didn't want to go home....
It was a really bad dream!"
Love In Thought! Love In Word! Love In Action!
Love To You Today!
"May we endeavor today to increase our understanding and appreciation of
what others have given and contributed to us. And develop constant,
mindful consideration of how our thoughts and actions will BENEFICIALLY
CONTRIBUTE to others"
The best to you today in discovering the answers to life's difficult
questions!
A Final Thought:
Love is always the right thing to do. Even if it isn't the easiest
thing to do.
May we have compassion for the struggles of others, wisdom to
acknowledge our own, and courage to address them both every day.
Respectfully,
Tim
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(c)2007 T.Thomas Henry
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/08/07 - LONG-LOST LOVERS
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/08/07 - LONG-LOST LOVERS
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
(Brand New and Classic Love Works Essays 2001-2007)
LONG-LOST LOVERS by Joshua Bagby
I feel like Billy Pilgrim, the lead character in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, the guy who comes unstuck in time. He wanders around time to various points in his life, living and reliving various moments from his past and future.
It’s not really that I have come unstuck in time, but as I look out across my life, I look at my lovers in a way that is not socially acceptable. I still love them.
Social forces want you to hate them, or at least ignore them as if they never existed. I have a hard time doing that. I like to think of each love relationship that I had as being a gift. Sometimes, and probably most of the time, it was a gift that emerged largely after painful circumstances exposed them.
In my current spiritual belief structure, I see each lover that I had as a teacher. I believe that in some other dimension of reality, we still gather outside of time and space. We shed our ego memories and exist in our spiritual universe. That’s where we know the big picture.
I see physical life as if it were a big movie. Outside of physical life, you are like the cast and crew of a movie. You sit around over coffee and pastries and discuss all the nuances of the movie you are in.
Thus, say that you are in the middle of a big row with the major love of your life. Maybe you’re in the midst of a betrayal or a disappointment or a bitter break-up. When you leave your bodies during the night, you gather together for a script conference, like actors discussing each character part in the movie. “Boy, you sure nailed that scene!”
“Thanks. I noticed by your reaction that you think I’m nuts!”
“It was a very believable performance!”
Having this philosophy is why I still think of long-lost lovers as an intimate part of my life even when they are not physically present in my life anymore. And most of them aren’t.
In my case, I am not unstuck in time, but I am unstuck from culture. As a creative personality, I continually play with tradition, mostly rearranging it to see if I can dream up something better. For the most part I am not too happy with how the planet is doing. I think there is vast room for improvement in how we are conducting our social affairs. I am unstuck because I don’t watch much cable TV. I don’t have any disposable income, so I can’t afford many customary distractions. The end result of that is a positive, in my opinion. I do a lot of creative thinking. That leads me to looking at many alternatives that people ensconced in normal culture don’t consider.
Holding grudges, for example. If you watch much TV, you come away with the impression that it is normal if not somehow righteous to hold grudges. Much of cable TV is all about fighting the good fight. Talk shows often pit one side against the other. It’s all great entertainment, isn’t it?
A juicy area for holding grudges is the arena of romance. If you were betrayed, cheated on, abandoned, raped (metaphorically or literally), shamed, belittled, used—you get the idea—it’s part of the ordinary consciousness of the times to get a lot of good juice out of it. Tell great stories at parties about how abused you were. Get some pity points or even suck up to another lover by spilling your guts about the miseries from your past.
The problem with all that is that spiritually—and this comes from different sources—many of the instances of abuse were scripted in advance, just like in a movie. For example, a common thread running through past-life regressions is how certain souls volunteer to play the heavy in a next life just like an actor elects to play a role of some creepy character. This is ostensibly done to teach and learn lessons in our cosmic journey.
Over the years, several of my lovers turned out to have been raped or otherwise sexually abused as children. They suffered for it greatly. A few of them had what appeared to be multiple personality disorder or borderline personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder. Ultimately, they could not sustain a relationship and did some pretty mean things to me as they unleashed torrents of anger from their emotional past. Yet before that phase, we had some delicious experiences.
I like to remember those delicious experiences the most.
From what I understand from reading spiritual books and listening to near-death experiencers, these women all signed up for their abusive childhood experiences. It’s not much different than Halle Berry signing up to endure a lifetime of angst in Monster’s Ball—except that they don’t get the fame and fortune for being a Hollywood star! Meanwhile, all the other actors signed up to play their roles in the experience, too. It’s one big happy tortured family.
If that’s true, it makes sense to me not to hold grudges against these women for what they did to me. And chances are very likely that as a soul I chose to be with them for a reason. The fact that I ran into so many of them even indicates to me that I needed the exposure to women severely damaged in childhood. It’s all part of the plan.
Sometimes when events evoke memories of the pain I have suffered in the past, I do find myself feeling anger or hurt or sadness. But as I become aware that I am just churning through old emotions, I switch channels and envision happier times with that person so I don’t stew in the bad feelings.
It often turns out that it was the incredible highs I felt with someone that eventually led to the lows. Had those highs not happened, there never would have been a relationship leading to the lows. There would have been nothing.
Feeling this way, I must confess, does lead me to missing former lovers. I want to share with them what I have learned. In my idealism bubble I think of them as equally open to sharing and forgiving and celebrating. I think of them as eager to step into the light with me and shine.
At times I want to write former lovers love letters. I want to share with them this bounty of good feelings. But I don’t. This world seems compelled to highlight the negative. If I sent a love letter, they’d wonder what I wanted from them. Or they would think I was needy for affection and choosing them to victimize with sentimentality over bygones.
If a past lover were hooked up with a new lover, she would see my love letters as an invasion into her new life. Or if he ever got hold of it, he would see it as a threat against his claim of his new relationship. I have experienced the flip side where former lovers have contacted me while I was in a new relationship, and the woman I was with threw jealousy tantrums, convinced (through her imagination) that the old lovers were attempting to steal me back.
So I don’t write letters that I send, but nothing stops me from going there in my imagination. Oh, baby…
Love In Thought! Love In Word! Love In Action!
Love To You Today!
"May we endeavor today to increase our understanding and appreciation of
what others have given and contributed to us. And develop constant,
mindful consideration of how our thoughts and actions will BENEFICIALLY
CONTRIBUTE to others"
The best to you today in discovering the answers to life's difficult
questions!
A Final Thought:
Love is always the right thing to do. Even if it isn't the easiest
thing to do.
May we have compassion for the struggles of others, wisdom to
acknowledge our own, and courage to address them both every day.
Respectfully,
Tim
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From LOVE WORKS DAILY 11/02/05
Joshua Bagby's Material (C)2005 Used By Kind Permission
(c)2007 T.Thomas Henry
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/02/07 - APATHY
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/02/07 - APATHY
Happy June To You! Wishing you best of blessings
in this first month of summer!
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(Great Thoughts By History's Inspired Thinking Men and Women)
If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger,
give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can
always buy a new rope.
-Max Gunther
TIM's BLOG
(Random Thoughts and Tim's Daily World):
Can a person do too much? Can they give too much?
Surely you must have a hidden motive...Right?
I would never have expected in the whole world that someone
would be threatened by someone who does TOO much. But I guess
that it does happen.
I not going to give much energy to this, or power to it, as
the case may be, but I am needing to address it here in this forum
because I have spent the last six years addressing the "real
me" as I go along. Maybe not the ME that you would like,
or even the ME that I would like all the time.
But honesty is a very important thing to me, and as I've written
about in detail lately. Integrity.
The truth is that I am hurting right now.
Someone didn't do it TO ME, I've let it happpen to me.
Despite my best effort to
be a bigger person and let it go, some very hurtful things were
said to me about me and my family, and I can manage to
"give them no power" for only a few minutes at a time.
But, that is better than I did yesterday. And I'm sure I
will do better with it tomorrow.
It's really hard to handle when someone says or does things in
an intentionally hurtful manner toward you....
But I keep reminding myself some very wise words....The one who intentionally
hurts another is doing so because they hurt. They are hurt
and angry about things that are usually not even about you. You just happened
to be there.
I just happened to be there.
But...the key is...they hurt you only as much as you let them.
I'm still letting them hurt me a bit today...but that will not
stop me, or even slow me down.
If I am defeated by a lie, by someone elses anger and pain,
I miss the chance to see the real opportunity.
To Love And Be Loved...Anyway!
I'm sure that the person who said these mean spirited and hateful
things to me needs Love even more than the person who says
kind things to me....
That doesn't mean I'm not human...and would like to smack them
silly!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
(Brand New and Classic Love Works Essays 2001-2007)
Yesterday, I was talking with my brother on the phone
and he reminded me of a conversation we had a number of months
ago regarding APATHY.
We were talking about the various ills in the world, and
how he thought that APATHY was amongst the biggest, if not THE
biggest.
People just don't seem to care anymore.
Just check out how many people vote, or attend a PTA meeting,
or visiting the sick or elderly.
Not caring is a really big problem.
So I have thought over the months about writing about
Apathy.
How could I best describe how devistating wide-spead apathy
could be?
What if everyone stopped caring about everything?
What would happen if no one did anything?
What if APATHY actually grabbed hold of you and me and everyone we
know?
That is my question.
What would happen?
The answer is..........
.......
.......
.......
.......
.......
Love In Thought! Love In Word! Love In Action!
Love To You Today!
"May we endeavor today to increase our understanding and appreciation of
what others have given and contributed to us. And develop constant,
mindful consideration of how our thoughts and actions will BENEFICIALLY
CONTRIBUTE to others"
The best to you today in discovering the answers to life's difficult
questions!
A Final Thought:
Love is always the right thing to do. Even if it isn't the easiest
thing to do.
May we have compassion for the struggles of others, wisdom to
acknowledge our own, and courage to address them both every day.
Respectfully,
Tim
This is a daily newsletter of LOVE WORKS DAILY:
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backgrounds, dedicated to a better world by living LOVE in thought,
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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Peace be with you.
From LOVE WORKS DAILY 11/01/05
(c)2007 T.Thomas Henry
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/04/07 - STUMBLING OVER YOUR BR
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/04/07 - STUMBLING OVER YOUR BRAIN
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TIM's BLOG
(Random Thoughts and Tim's Daily World):
Today has been a tough one. But today has also been
a great one. (How's that for being crytic?) Actually
the thing that WAS is no longer. So I have no ability to
refer to it anymore. I have released into the care of another,
and I no longer have to carry it. It's an amazing thing....
release ... and worth giving a try from time to time.
Now that I have said something. About nothing. I will move on.
LOL! (What was I talking about anyway...???)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
(Brand New and Classic Love Works Essays 2001-2007)
Today is a new beginning.
Today you start again!
Today you can wake up, and do the same thing you did yesterday or do
something else....something new....something better.
A saying that is common in our household is, "Every road leads to
another, all roads take you home."
It means, to me, that we are on a journey and that indeed the journey
does have a destination. You are headed in the right direction.
Wherever you go, there you are!
If you look closely enough, you can see that destination. But the
travelling there, should come at ease. A sort of meandering way of
living.....stop when you get there...move on when that part of the
journey is done.
But today, I address the issue of stumbling blocks or stepping stones.
Do you keep stumbling over stumbing blocks? Is it happening again and
again?
As I've written before, my family usually takes a long "wandering"
automobile trip each summer. We do go in a general direction, but we
make no specific plan.
When something clearly interesting presents itself we explore it, when
a roadblock or traffic jam arrives, we go around it go some other way.
We look for these little signs to tell us where the trip is supposed to
go. Our only mistakes have been when we used our BRAINS too much and
our HEARTS too little.
If we do believe in signs, or destiny, or the will of a higher power,
many of us are looking for thunderstrikes and atomic blasts to light our
path. And sometimes an atomic blast does APPEAR out of nowhere to change
your course. That is worth examining.
But often, it's the many many little things, that totalled up, that
give us the answers we are looking for.
Stumbling blocks are part of those little answers. Do we keep stumbling
and stumbling with the hope that in some distant day we
will find solid ground or our correct destination?
Or do we acknowledge that we are stumbling, over and over, and it is
not and will not get better?
When do we make that decision?
How many times do we stumble before we either fall, or step over the
stumbling block and turn it into a steping stone?
I don't like to keep stumbling!
I don't want you to keep stumbling!
And here's some reasons why I think people ignore the inner voice and
use REASONING to make bad decisions, and keep hitting roadblocks.
There is a fundemental conflict between the heart and the mind. The
mind tells a person to keep trying something, that the failure must be
for lack of trying. The heart knows the difference.
This has lead to terrible business and investment failures, as the
principle members continued to keep the venture afloat long after the
heart is no longer leading the way.
This has lead to endless wars and political strife.
It has lead many people to stay in abusive and neglectful relationships
for much too long. If she could just do THIS or do THAT, everything
would change, it would all be like it was, it would all be better
again. But the heart knows....it's fear and the intellect that keeps
the person in an endless cycle of bad situations. The brain says, I
know he loves me, why can't I change enough to make it right. It must
be my fault.
The fact is...most bad relationships never get better....only good
relationships keep getting better. I have first hand experience with
this one.
The fact is....most unsuccessful businesses never become successful...
they just continue to do poorly until it's way too late to make a
change.
The fact is....a war or interpersonal conflict that keeps getting
worse....will continue to keep getting worse....until someone walks away
or is defeated.
I've been pretty good, at following my heart, but I have had much less
luck having others follow along. But here's three things to think
about.
In reality, not on TV, the most obvious suspect, is almost always the
murderer. Police will tell you that in 90% of murder cases,
the obvious suspect, like a husband or wife, is usually the one who
did it. On Matlock, the guy with the smoking gun is usually innocent.
In life, the guy with the smoking gun usually DID IT. Police often
report KNOWING who the guilty party is in their heart, usually because
it is obvious...but then have to prove it...which our courts make very
difficult. The BRAIN will find reasonable doubt, the HEART knows
better.
In reality, a person who is involved in ONE bad relationship, has had
bad luck. One who finds them over and over again, or stays with them
way too long, is not following heart, and is using their brain to
create them and enable them.
This is what I call the "train wreck" effect, men and women who WAIT
for the TRAIN WRECK rather than stop the train or jump free, and they
experience TRAIN WRECK after TRAIN WRECK....their lives are a constant
drama
and/or tragedy. Somehow, jumping feels like quitting, the TRAIN WRECK
feels like what they deserve. The BRAIN makes them stay, the hearts
says they should jump....but they never do.
And finally, an abuser is always an abuser. They may be able to curb
or limit their behavior for awhile. But there is no evidence that any
abusive or neglectful person has ever been "cured". The behavior they
exhibited in the past will return over and over again. A child abuser
is always going to be a child abuser. The rapist will always be a
rapist. The "wife-beater" is always going to be a "wife-beater"
The same goes with mental or emotional abuse. Habitual abusive
personatities do not change, or change very very slowly. The BRAIN
says, I am special, She won't cheat on me, He won't abuse my child,
I will love her more and she will change, He hit me that last time
because I didn't love him enough, He won't hit me again...because I'm
special....He loves me more. If I love her more or better, if I stay
long enough, she will come close again and it will be "fine again." He
may LOVE you more..or you may LOVE her more..but the heart knows it
won't change. It didn't change the last time, it won't change this
time. It may not be coming your way now, but I will, and you know it.
The heart knows it....the brain doesn't want to believe it.
These are just three examples of how the BRAIN tricks the heart into
making poor decisions. There are many many more. But frankly, in our
society, we just DO NOT TRUST intuition. We value intellect way too
much, to allow the "gut feeling" to be a deciding factor. And
unfortunately, most people, in retrospect, report that their "gut
feeling" was the right one, and they regret ignoring it.
So here's my Jedi Yoda quote for the day..."Use the force, Luke"
It was only when he put on the blindfold and used what was in his heart,
that he could master his light saber. As long as he used his heart and
his brain, he could never be free and become a true Jedi.
I encourage you to "Use the Force" (thank you to Lucasfilms Ltd. for not
suing me, in advance - Be sure to buy Episodes 1-6 on DVD! - gratuitious
plug to ward off lawsuit)
You don't have to keep running into roadblocks. If you master your
inner intition, you can walk accross the stepping stones with ease,
without falling, and....surprise...without looking down at them.
One road will lead to another, and to another, until you arrive home.
Trust that inner voice today!
Gliding though life, at ease, in touch ourselves and the world around
us.
All thing are possible!
Love In Thought! Love In Word! Love In Action!
Love To You Today!
"May we endeavor today to increase our understanding and appreciation of
what others have given and contributed to us. And develop constant,
mindful consideration of how our thoughts and actions will BENEFICIALLY
CONTRIBUTE to others"
The best to you today in discovering the answers to life's difficult
questions!
A Final Thought:
Love is always the right thing to do. Even if it isn't the easiest
thing to do.
May we have compassion for the struggles of others, wisdom to
acknowledge our own, and courage to address them both every day.
Respectfully,
Tim
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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
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From LOVE WORKS DAILY 05/01/03
(c)2007 T.Thomas Henry
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/01/07 - INTEGRITY #3
LOVE WORKS DAILY 06/01/07 - INTEGRITY #3
I hope all is joyful and beautiful in your world
today! Peace and Love be with you!
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INSPIRATIONAL MOMENT:
(Great Thoughts By History's Inspired Thinking Men and Women)
Come Together. Right Now.
-John Lennon
TIM's BLOG
(Random Thoughts and Tim's Daily World):
Another sunny day here is Southern Oregon. Hope all is
well with you and yours!!! Happy June!!!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
(Brand New and Classic Love Works Essays 2001-2007)
INTEGRITY
Today is day #3 in a series of letters on various definitions of
the word.
3. wholeness: the state of being sound or undamaged ( formal ) Their
refusal to participate in the experiment will undermine its integrity.
I had an experience once that changed by life.
The experience is usually refered to as an NDE, or near death
experience.
I will save the specific details of the experience for another writing,
but during the experience I seemed to have been "given" or "received"
information about how things work. This, I have come to find out, is
not all that unusual for NDE's.
I'm going to share a tiny bit of what was revealed to me.
Take it for what you want, and leave the rest, as some would say.
I don't attest to this being THE answer, it was the answer as I could
understand it. I share it only for your consideration.
1. You are not an individual.
2. You are an integral part of a complex "infinite larger self" or
"higher power".
3. All things are infinite.
4. All things being infinite, all the integral parts are equal.
(infinity = infinity = infinity)
5. All things being equal, all things are possible.
BANG! WHAT THE F^%)#&#? Are we talking quantum physics or what here?
Probibly. Regardless, don't spend too much time reading the five points
unless indeed you have nothing better to do for the rest of your life.
Entire careers could be spent arguing for, or against, any of the above
statements.
Whatever TRUTH it may contain, I believe that it IS science, and
someday humans will use enough of their brain capacity to grasp those
truths. I certainly do not grasp them very well, nor can I explain
them very well.
And even given that I could explain them even remotely in a correct and
clear manner, I have absolutely no idea how to harness them or bring
them forth into physical manifestations.
But it did explain alot to me, and that's why I shared it here.
It explains, to me, INTEGRITY as it apply to the universe.
It explains, to me, the power of prayer and why it WORKS in all
religions, not just some. (REPLACE the word INFINITY with the
word GOD in the above 5 statements if it helps to clarify). It explains the power of positive thinking,
and mind over matter. It explains miracles. To me, it explains the
meaning of Life ITSELF. It explains why LOVE and TOGETHERNESS
works....and HATRED and SEPERATENESS DOES NOT (activities associated
with the word EVIL are always about HATRED and SEPERATION). I got MY answers from it
and it gave me GREAT HOPE and GREAT JOY!
So, what's my point....I could go on and on and on for days trying to
explain the five points above....but TODAY I must have a point....
Whether you like the terms I described above, as how things work....
or you have different ones....
Most people believe we come from the same source, we are not alone and
without purpose, there is a higher intelligence in the universe,
and that wonderful things can happen as a result of the power of the
mind and our faith in these.
So, You are important.
You are an INTEGRAL part of the universe.
All things have INTEGRITY as a result of a cooperative effort with
all other things.
Does anyone reading this believe that HUMANS will survive after we kill
off every other living thing on the planet?
Do you believe you would survive if you were the last HUMAN alive?
Do we really appreciate the number of other living things we depend on
and that depend on us for survival?
Call it an ecosystem...call it Mother Earth....we're all in this
together, folks.
Not one single living thing can survive isolated and seperate from all
others. Period. Hard Science. (Forget points 1-5)
The universe requires YOU....to have INTEGRITY (to stay together and
keep going). You have to do your part.
This is why we have a primary instinct to STAY ALIVE.
We are needed. You are needed!
You may not realize how many other living things are counting on you
today. We depend upon each other for food, for shelter, for
reproduction, just to name a few.
We may be simply counting on each other for companionship.
Imagine yourself with no friends, family, or pets. Imagine that
there were not even any WILD animals or insects or plants. Imagine a
world that was just you...your house...and no other living things.
You would simply die of loneliness.
I believe so would the animals and plants. Scientific evidence shows
that even plants respond positively to human interaction, and weaken
when it is withdrawn.
Yet we build more walls, more fences, more compartments to keep
everything seperate. More houses, more hi-rise buildings, more
cells and cubicles. How sad!
Hell, we can't even seem to keep it together as one species....
the next guy might have the wrong skin color or national origin,
or worship on the wrong day with the wrong symbols in their building...
we can't have that can we???!!??
We belong together. Living things thrive with other living things.
Together, not seperate, all things are possible.
All creatures great and small.....
INTEGRITY means being together, being unified, acting as a whole.
Have INTEGRITY...and do the right thing today!!
Love In Thought! Love In Word! Love In Action!
Love To You Today!
"May we endeavor today to increase our understanding and appreciation of
what others have given and contributed to us. And develop constant,
mindful consideration of how our thoughts and actions will BENEFICIALLY
CONTRIBUTE to others"
The best to you today in discovering the answers to life's difficult
questions!
A Final Thought:
Love is always the right thing to do. Even if it isn't the easiest
thing to do.
May we have compassion for the struggles of others, wisdom to
acknowledge our own, and courage to address them both every day.
Respectfully,
Tim
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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Peace be with you.
From LOVE WORKS DAILY 10/28/05
(c)2007 T.Thomas Henry
LOVE WORKS DAILY 05/31/07 - RIDING THE ROLLERCOAST
LOVE WORKS DAILY 05/31/07 - RIDING THE ROLLERCOASTER
May is here, and love is in the air...well, actually
Love is always in the air...if you just take the time
to stop and breathe some in! Love to you!
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INSPIRATIONAL MOMENT:
(Great Thoughts By History's Inspired Thinking Men and Women)
The good shine from afar
Like the snowy Himalayas.
The bad don't appear
Even when near,
Like arrows shot into the night.
-Dhammapada, 21,
TIM's BLOG
(Random Thoughts and Tim's Daily World):
Good morning Thursday. The weather here is HOT HOT HOT....
and now, instead of complaining about COLD COLD COLD...or
WET WET WET...we have this new things to complain about.
I don't do it though. I does feel like we went from Winter
to Summer without any Spring....but I'm breathing and healthy...
I'm well fed (no remarks!!)...and I have shelter and cold
water to drink. What else can I ask for...I guess I could
ask for more....but it does make one wonder how people
in Asia and Africa and South America and other places might
feel or respond...if I, in all my comforts, was complaining
about it being a bit too warm.....
I am very blessed. Thanks my story and I'm sticking to it!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
(Brand New and Classic Love Works Essays 2001-2007)
First off, once upon a time I would never step foot even
near a rollercoaster.
As a matter of fact, they still are not a favorite of mine.
But I CAN do it. I have done it.
I used to be terrified of heights, the unknown, and
anything in which I was not in the drivers seat. And that
is a rollercoaster by definition.
If any of you are familiar with the SIX FLAGS theme parks,
most of them have a very large rollercoaster as the
centerpiece attraction ride.
When I was a kid, people would go to Six Flags in St. Louis, MO
and the big questions always was....did you...will you....
can you...ride the Screaming Eagle!?!
I did and I will and I can. A few years ago while visiting
my daughter we went to Six Flags, and I got in line to ride
the Eagle....but the long long long line finally got to me, and
I decided to skip it.
But I was prepared to do it......and although it has all
the elements of things that terrify me...I am able to do it.
I said I used to be terrified...truth is...I am still
very terrified of these same things....heights, the unknown, and
anything in which I am not in the drivers seat.
Well, guess what!
I'm on a rollercoaster again.
As I have embarked on this things called church ministry...
(and for those who might be interest in the content of that
you might check out the website of a local meeting www.kffriends.org)
I am strapped in the seat, clutching the guard rail,
taking the ride one hill and one turn at a time.
It's scary as hell sometimes, and other times it's pure
serenity.
It is the three things I fear most.....
1. Heights
2. The Unknown
3. Something in which I am not in the driver seat.
This thing is bigger than me.
And yet....after standing in the back of the line for
years and years and years...I now find myself holding
on for dear life...but still showing up for it.
It's that same fealing that you have at the amusement park.
You're nervous in the line...but once you are strapped in
the seat...and the car starts to move...there is really no
turning back until the ride plays out.
Unless you've taken a particular ride before, there are always
twists and turns and thrills and joys that you don't expect.
And yes, it can be a little nauseating. You get a little
queazy. Disoriented. You want to jump off or scream "HELP!"
But it CAN BE DONE. It will be done.
Unlike the rollercoaster, I didn't pick my ministry work.
It picked me. God picked me.
And regardless or how you see God, most of us agree
that nothing happens by accident. All things have some
sort of meaning, some sort of purpose. We may not be able
to see it right now, but it's there someplace.
Yeah, the ride is a bit scary, a bit intimidating...after
all...it's no kiddie ride....it's an E TICKET!
It's bumpy and twisty...and joyful and thrilling!
And I do hope that the ups and downs do settle with time...
especially those that send me into massive self doubt....
but, on the other hand, I could be comparing this all
to riding a ferris wheel.
You know, round and round and round and going no place at
all....
For some people that's what they really want in a vocation.
Still maybe a little nausea...but certainly no surprises.
I think I'll keep my roller coaster, thank you.....
(he says....as though he is in the drivers seat,
anyways.....)
Love In Thought! Love In Word! Love In Action!
Love To You Today!
"May we endeavor today to increase our understanding and appreciation of
what others have given and contributed to us. And develop constant,
mindful consideration of how our thoughts and actions will BENEFICIALLY
CONTRIBUTE to others"
The best to you today in discovering the answers to life's difficult
questions!
A Final Thought:
Love is always the right thing to do. Even if it isn't the easiest
thing to do.
May we have compassion for the struggles of others, wisdom to
acknowledge our own, and courage to address them both every day.
Respectfully,
Tim
This is a daily newsletter of LOVE WORKS DAILY:
A collective of individuals of different beliefs and
backgrounds, dedicated to a better world by living LOVE in thought,
word and action. Compassion. Wisdom. Courage.
Join one of our mailing list or online groups:
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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Peace be with you.
(c)2007 T.Thomas Henry
