I am filled

I am filled today with love. I should arise feeling this way every day, but today I especially feel filled with love. I love every thing, every person--man, woman, and child. Yes, yes, there are those who I love more intimately, more intensely than others, but I do love every one.

And I love the planet, our dear mother earth.

I love "the wind and the water and the wood and those who live there too."

But more than all, I love God. You cannot love God and not love these things. You cannot love these things and not love God.

Blessed Be The All.

Choice

Today's passage reminds us that we are always choosing. And our choices effect all of life. All of life. ALL of life. ALL OF LIFE. The inner and the outer.

What will I choose to do today?
What will I choose to be today?

What I do is a reflection of who I am.

Blessed be me.
Blessed be the all.
Blessed be the planet.
Blessed be God.

Marveling

I continue to marvel at my connection to the earth. I start to understand how the hermit on the mountain starts to feel connected to everything.

I am happy to report that it does not require that level of exclusive to feel this connection. It only requires a bit of quiet . . . and appreciation . . . and reverence . . . and a desire in your heart to connect. . . not just to every thing . . . not just to everyone . . . but to God.

The closer I come to God, the closer I am connected to every living thing; the closer I come to every living thing, the closer I come to God.

Blessed Be.

Happy Earth Day!

Blessed

Be

The

Earth!

I must

After reading today's meditation, I must consider if I exhibit self-control, charity and kindness.

And this gives me pause for I know many would judge that I show little self-control or self-constraint. My dilemma is do I justify my apparent lack or admit to it.

I admit to the appearance of lack of self-control, yet I know the truth within my heart.

There is shall remain--without judgment. Walking through life does mean self-control--that is being conscious of one's actions, and it means walking with charity and kindness not just for others and other things, but for ourselves.

Blessed Be You who are reading this.
Blessed Be Me.
Blessed Be the All.

Reminded

Today's meditation reminds me that everyone and everything contains energy, that is everyone and everything is alive. Some are able to feel the energy that surrounds them. Being conscious or unconscious of these energies does not make one right or wrong or better or worse than anyone else, it just means they feel differently.

Feeling these energies is not a necessity to honor and respect all that is. The trees and plants, the dirt and the rocks along with people--both those we love and those we have yet to meet.

Love,
Honor,
Respect.

Love,
Honor,
Respect.

Let that become our mantra and the world will be truly blessed.

It's easy not to accept responsibility

Today's passage reminds me that as humans we are responsible for all that happens on earth. We ARE the stewards of the planet. And we obviously are not doing a very good job. We often neglect the gift we have been given. And we use and abuse it. If we cared for a child in the same manner as we do the planet, the child would be taken away from us by the authorities and its care given over to someone else.

The problem is, there's no one else to give the planet over to. It's up to us. It's up to you. Oh, how easy it is to write those words. How easy it is to give up my own responsibility for the planet. It's never me, it's always the other person. I love and appreciate the planet. I do. I repeatedly delude myself with those words.

For today, I can love the planet. I can love the sunshine streaming into my windows. I can love the birds and their chirping. And I can love the oxygen that the plants give us.

Blessed be the planet.

Often

I have often spoken about hearing the birds chirp and sing as I sit and ponder the day's meditation. And now I can start to glimpse them. I have moved to a bigger room within the house.

This room includes full size windows. I can now sit and look out upon the world that surrounds me. I somehow feel closer to nature by being able to look upon it.

Just outside my window there is a tree. In fact there are many trees within my view. From my elevated position I see trees that are distant from me. Through the haze, I can even see the trees upon the mountains.

I am a confirmed tree hugger but more often than not, I am just a tree appreciator. What's not to love? What's not to love in all of nature?

Is your way of loving including ignoring the object of your love? Do you take it for granted? I fear it is true that I have often done so. But no more. I choose to be aware of that which surrounds me. Whether it be man or woman, beast or plant, visible or invisible.

Blessed be The All!

The Deeper, The More

The deeper I go within myself, the more I notice the beauty of nature around me.

When I am at peace with myself, I notice the peace that surrounds me.

I at at one with everything.

Blessed be The All.

Blessed Be.

Quiet

Today's meditation speaks of fasting and quieting the mind. So many have told me they desire to talk to the divine as I do. So many have told me they wish to feel peace and harmony as I have. Yet, they often hesitate when I suggest they spend 15 minutes per day in quiet. They will list the reasons why they cannot carve out such a period of time.

It is within the quiet that spirit speaks to me . . . and to you.

Blessed be the quiet.
Blessed be the quiet even as I hear the birds chirp.
Blessed be the quiet even as I hear the wind in the leaves.
Blessed be the quiet.
Blessed Be.

I have not

I have not become some new-age raging environmentalist. Or so I think. Yet, since starting this meditation book back in February I have come to truly appreciate our planet.

I closed my eyes for a few minutes after reading today's pondering. I concentrated on the sounds of nature that is just outside my window. I can hear the birds chirping and whistling. I am instantly transported to the trees. The beautiful trees.

I seem to soar over the landscape as I look upon earth's beauty. I think of the beauty of the grass and the plants and the rocks. And I marvel at how we, as mankind, have the audacity to think we can improve it.

No, no, I would not have us go back to some primitive lifestyle, but at the same time I think it important for us to realize just what that lifestyle costs us.

Peggy, when she gave us these meditations, asked just one thing of us. I now it of anyone reading this. Appreciate our planet. Just appreciate it. Love Mother Earth. You will be amazed at the peace you can find within yourself.

On this day

Today's meditation speaks of and ancient teaching that life being forfeit if time is taken away from study to notice the trees or the fields. It also speaks to the new thought that not noticing the trees and the fields, then surely life is forfeit.

I have worked very hard to balance working on my book and observing the beauty around me. I notice that when I do tune into the beauty then I am clearer of thought and more attuned to divine inspiration. I find it more and more difficult to separate myself from the energy and rhythm of nature. We are all one.

On this day, I bless:
the trees,
the fields,
the wind
the water
the wood
and those who live there too.

Blessed Be.

Every LIving Thing

Every living thing has the right to live, to exist, to thrive. Including the biting red ant, and the stinging mosquito.

Blessed be all of them.
Good with the bad,
the soothing and the stinging,
the beautiful and the ugly.

Blessed be them all.

Have you considered?

After reading today's meditation, I am reminded of my sensual qualities of a strawberry. A red, ripe strawberry is a feast for the eyes. My mouth starts to water just thinking of it. The super large strawberries available at today's market seems to be a feast onto themselves. Bite into one and there is a combined experience of flavor and scent. Graze upon the bitten flesh, notice it glistening in the light.
It reminds me of other sensual experiences. All of my senses experience the strawberry.

Blessed be the fruit of the land.
Blessed be the earth.

Natural Beauty

Today's Meditation speaks of natural beauty and even with the subtlest of hands, we cannot duplicate natural beauty. A few days ago I visited my beloved redwoods, yet I was compelled by the beauty of these ferns. It was a misty and rainy day, yet the green of these ferns leaped out at you.

Pondering these meditations have reminded me of a truth I have discovered over the last several months. When I notice the beauty around me, I transcend the mundane and find myself more closely connected to God and all that is.

Blessed be the beauty around us!
Blessed be the moment it takes to notice it!
Blessed Be God!

I could not

I could not be a vegetarian, although I admire those who are and of course the Vegans as well There are slew of diet disciplines that honor both plant and animal life.

Yet, I am not ready to adopt any of them. The fact is I enjoy meat protein. I bear the responsibility of that. OR do I? For I allow others to kill and butcher my meat for me. Could I do it if I had to look the animal in question in the eyes? A thought for me to further ponder.

Meanwhile, today I will drive up I-5 on my way to the Bay area. Although the way there are a couple of feed lots. I AM responsible for that industry. Today, as I pass I will love that trampled upon earth.

It's easy to love the beautiful places on earth, including the redwood forest I so love. It's not so easy to love the ugly places. For today, I will love the ugly places on earth.

Blessed be the ugly places!