Month: July 2011

Love is Blinding

Life Can Set On Us Anytime Without Warning

I have heard over my life time that “Love is Blinding”. A light bulb of understanding has come on in another room of my mind towards those words. I have observed that whatever a person focuses their love towards they themselves give life to that object within themselves no matter the reality of truth towards that object in the real world.

Focused love can be blinding when a person wishes that particular something to be something that it is not and herein lies the blinding part. Let me preface, I am not picking on anyone by the examples I may use.

A pet in our life can take on a place of love blinding us to value of other things in life. I love animals, but if a choice of a child being run over by a car and a pet both of course being tragic which would you choose? Some people hate people and love pets to the point of people should die and pets should live. A person can live a life of people consistently betraying, back stabbing, purposefully undermining, using them for a means to an end driving them to love and believe only animals can be trusted because they are true to who they are more than people. Some could have lived a life where animals were evil to them leaving bad experiences locked in their memory. It can go both ways.

Electronics in a person’s life can take a place of a high level of love and value in a person’s heart. Electronics is an escape from the way they are treated and looked upon. They can play a role inside these electronics they could not play in real life. This is their only chance to be free from who they are in reality and f

eel the part of the hero, be the sexy looking person, be the one in control, or do whatever they want to do without consequences.

None living objects in a person life can be a focus of a person’s love to a point of blindness of reality.This can be cars, paintings, boats, guns, comic books, statues…on and on. You have things around you that you love to be able to immediately see, hear, smell, feel, or possibly taste. Again, this can be deceiving to that person on other things in life that can be loved and possibly love back with all the senses being involved.

You work side by side with people every day whose mind, heart, and soul are focused on selfish things they love, cutting off everything within them to those around them, oblivious to reality around them, infecting others with their callous selfish ways, flying through this life without a clue of good they could do if their love was not so blinding to reality.

Questions:

Whatever we focus our love on, the big question is “what will it mean to us or anyone in 100 years?” What will become of your life long committed love to that particular thing? How far back does your memory go of your parent parent’s sayings, actions, or way of living go? What can you focus your love on that will be true and live on after you are gone?

Have a great day in-spite of what comes your way.

Perspective

I count myself fortunate to have been raised in a mountainous area. As a young teenager of 16 with a license to drive gave me the first opportunity to venture out. It did not take very long for the realization of how tiny we are in comparison to the vast mountains and open plains. The news media would tell us about hikers getting lost for days with a search party desperately looking for them before too much time got away. A great respect for the wilderness was instilled in me early in life.

It is amazing when you drive your mechanical car and park it in an area for a nature trail hike how a person can sense passing from one world of mechanicalism to the natural world what a vast difference. Walking down a nature trail your senses come alive with seemingly thousands of attention grabbing curiosities. It is amazing how the rat race clock slows down to nothing when you are out in the woods. Life in you and around you slows down to a natural awareness.

If you have never experienced the mountainous outdoors I would encourage you to go on an exploration. If you ask what is the big deal of drinking in through your senses what nature has to offer? Examine your every day life with the unpleasantness, negative bombardments, and a seemingly stressful noose around your neck. The disappearing into the mountains gives you a more to life perspective and new release on there is more to life than my little world of torture.

Sometimes the only kindness a person gets is from nature itself. People tend to be cruel, judgmental, and callus. With nature you know what to expect. It doesn’t change and alter its intent because of who you are. The warmth of the sunshine on your skin is the closest some people get to feeling love from a true pure source, the wind as a gentle refreshing breath into your lungs, the soft sounds flowing into your ears healing the raw words it has endured, and presence of purity all around you for your eyes to see.

Electronics have their place in our life, but their robotic components do not touch us as much as a good day of exploration in the natural beauty near us. Have a great day in-spite of what comes your way.

Walking Gardens

What's In Your Garden?

I believe we (mankind) are all like a garden. The flesh being the ground. The spirit being the life of the garden, thus making us two-part in nature. Our flesh is of the earth because once it dies it returns to the dust of the earth and our spirit is of the eternal substance. Seeds come into our garden by different means as we grow up and our spirit allows those different things to grow. Now, in your mind cycle through your pictures data at the different gardens you have seen driving around, in paper based containers, or the internet. Some are with a few fruit bearing plants. Some are full of weeds. Some are well-kept and fruitful. With that picture in your mind look at people you meet daily are not some of them like these types of gardens? Some people have personalities like weeds ever plaguing the good workers with their negativity. Some people have an average demeanor about themselves with a few good contributions, but there are those you see that seem to have success bursting out their seems. Why do some gardens do really well and others barely make it? Why do some people seem to have all the luck in the world and others have all the other luck?  Does this make you wonder what is in your personal garden? If you could label the different traits about yourself what kind of plants would be in your garden? We think the way we think, we act the way we act due to what is in our garden. We have allowed life to sow certain seeds inside of us that have grown into a part of us others may see, yet we don’t see ourselves. Our personality could be an influence on others exposing to our ways  dropping seeds into their garden. Seeds can enter your garden by what your eyes see, ears hear, feelings that are touched, and the tastes you taste. Have you taken the time to look into yourself and try to see what is growing inside of you that others may plainly see and talk about behind your back? Does this make you wonder “who is tending to my garden?” Do you tend to your garden? Do you have a plant that is a temper plant growing inside of you? Do you have a plant of: bitterness, envy, jealousy… What plants dominate your day? To be conscious of the plants in your garden is to have eyes that sees with perception and ears that hear with understandings. How many people do meet everyday who are blind to the things in their life that everyone else sees? A garden takes an effort to keep the weeds out. A garden needs special attention to grow and be successful. Take some time, slow down, and look at yourself from the outside into your garden and see what you need to do better yourself and possibly to help others. Have a great day in-spite of what comes your way.

Inside Weather

It is interesting to start off your day with the routine you do every morning from the bathroom to the kitchen and if you are lucky to the living room for a few moments of doing what you want to do and realizing your day will be like the Meteorologists’ prediction of the weather – nothing is a guarantee or set in stone. You arrive at work and it may be a sunny start and within a few moments the clouds roll in with a little darkness only to have the sun to peek through the clouds to tease you with a “It’ll pass over” feeling. The rain begins to fall and the dreary feelings set in again only to change in a break of blue skies showing themselves through. These are things we experience every day either at our employments or in the everyday life. People try to create the mood weather outside of us everyday, which makes it an unpredictable forecast. You just don’t know what is waiting around the corner for you. I realize there is one place we can control the weather. We can have sunshiny days, cool sun setting winds, or even a little refreshing rain. Inside our mind, heart and soul is the place where you can decide what the weather will be like. Though the outside is filled with bad weather, bad attitudes, or blowing tempers. You and I have the power to decide what kind of weather flows through our fleshly domes. We block the rain with umbrellas, shade our eyes with sunglasses, cover our bodies with coats, and dress ourselves daily according to the weather told to us for the day. There are things we can do for our inside person to block stress, shield our thoughts, filter the data we hear, and prepare ourselves for the daily encounters we are sure to meet. I am glad to know we all can make a decision on what kind of weather we want on the inside of ourselves. Have a great day in-spite of what comes your way.

Exploring God’s Canvas

     Riding along seeing the green colored trees, the  birds flying, the enormous mountains, how tiny I  was among them; smelling the different aromas of  nature as I passed by, hearing the streams flowing  over and around the rocks giving a tranquil sound,  birds singing, feeling the warm sunshine like waves  of love, the wind blowing off the troubles of the day,  tasting the fresh air of no more stress.  A light came  on in my mind as I was riding in the mountains. My  thoughts began to compare some of the breathe  taking paintings it had recorded over time in its data  banks from the two eye cameras naturally mounted in the front of my face. The pictures from educational books, visited museums, websites, trip brochures, friends and family vacations pictures that I would love to step into and experience myself only to have the cold truth of reality to say they were flat surface paintings I could not enter. At that moment my mind snapped my senses to the things around me as I was riding by with the clear realization I was riding in a living canvas, thus the understanding I was exploring in God’s Living Canvas of life. Traveling everyday has taken on a whole new meaning. I may not have the money to go to all the places in the pictures and paintings, but I do have the freedom to ride around where I live and explore the ever-changing beauty of God’s living canvas. I will share in the future blogs some of the adventures of traveling inside the only painting we are allowed to explore. Have a great day in-spite of what comes your way.