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A Touch Of Grace . . .
June 14, 2016 Tuesday 5 a.m. What is Grace? Grace is a benevolent gesture bestowed to relieve a yearning, a burden shadowing a heart that is struggling for relief. It is a knowledge, an insight given to be applied to oneself to help understand and give this relief to someone yearning for answers, …
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Not Only One Way, but Many Ways. . . .
I am not certain when I started to think in an organized way that something would be demanded of me by these sons of ours and I could not be found inadequate. So even though I had been a serious reader of books, a change in habits arose and I began my Independent Study Program. …
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Staff of Life (for a reason). . .
Best bread I ever baked. . . and pass the butter. . . I don’t know where I have been since this recipe for no knead bread has been out, but I just want to tell you that never have I had so much fun baking bread as I have with this recipe. I have…
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A Value System. . . an observation
A Value System . .an observation. . . . If a camera had the depth of a highly evolved human eye, it would without difficulty show the values that surround the individual. It would show the depth of the value system. It would reflect what the intensity of the light portrays. It cannot show you…
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Moksha. . .excellence of purpose. . . .
Moksha. . .excellence putting meaning into life. . . . . Sometimes what we look for when I say ask for the larger picture is not what we wish or think we are supposed to see. The larger picture may not have the desired results that we think we deserve. The results may be completely…
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This Learning Place. . .
Frank Herbert’s Chapterhouse Dune has much that demands me revisiting. Reverend Mother Odrade as she visits Sheanna says that art comforts and reassures people. Please, she thinks, don’t upset me. Just reassure me, she says. And I know what pleases me looking at the primitive painting on my bedside wall of early Americana that…
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What We Do For One. . . no lost causes. .
Sometimes there is need to repeat a post. When this was first written it was because I felt that my efforts were strictly one sided. And then I realized that many worked under this yoke and it was time to see the greater picture. And this is a must. Our boundaries or focus are limited…
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Revelation. . .
The question is asked: What do I confront when I turn to my concept of education? That education is a thing of the heart and Spirit and no learned institution can impart what is necessary to complete this life. That all bards and philosophers knew that Cosmic Consciousness of the individual was what they talked…
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Barroom Floors. . . the divine implications. . . .
Barroom floors and spittoons. . . . Oftentimes we are thrown onto ourselves to sink or swim. It may be a crisis at work, of illness, family or an unexplained malaise within us. We then must use inner resources simply to keep on keeping on. When conditions change, we look back and much to our…
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A Matter Of Trust Is a Matter Of Life. . . .
Taking Flight There was a year I learned that creatures, no matter the species, have memory. Birds I found are not forgetful. I had 2 mourning doves in my hanging planter outside the back door. They started to nest that past week. The planter was hanging just on the rim of the patio cover…