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What do you think about when you're feeling down?

Posted on Aug 19th, 2008 by martha : wildlygentle martha
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for August 19, 2008:

Butterfly

Maybe it's that I've been thinking about "how the world is" and thinking about the pain, suffering, greed, hatred, ignorance oh my god!!!      It's important to know that the world has all that going on, but it doesn't help to focus on the execrable things without thinking about ways to help by bringing love and light into the world. 

The world IS created from love and light.  Anything else is temporary, and will be cared for and fixed in time.  In time.  In the world of time.  My awesome friend Brian, the nuclear physicist guy whose site is always linked on my profile page, has this whole explanation of how everything gets fixed through love, which is through Christ(=love).  There's even a word for it--it's been a few years since we've talked about it, but I think the word he uses is "abrogate."  That love will cleanse all suffering and make it as if it had never happened.  He's sure of that.  And he's sure that the ancient Hebrews were on to something when they said that at the end of the world the very skies will fold away like a tapestry, like a cloak.  He says all this is in agreement with his understanding of physics.  And it totally mystifies me.  One of my life goals is to understand even the tiniest piece of it.  But I've really gotten off the subject, haven't I? 

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Sherrilene : Living Ever Closer to Excellence!
31 minutes later
Sherrilene said

I don't know if you got on or off the subject, but I'm definitely feeling what you said about events in due course pretty much wiping all the memories away…

Quoting from my Intentions surrounding Georgia blog recently, I was inspired to say:

“Times are changing, the planets are aligning for anyone against nature's abundant, sharing, freely distributive tendency to account. We are not quite there yet, but soon…

It will not 'fix' the events of the past but possibly will bring a future that overwhelms our senses so much with its deep beauty, to an extent that it dims these saddening moments somewhat, till they disappear and become memories of an old, misguided world. This is my prayer for us, the heart-humans. Much stranger things have happened in my own individual experience… :)”

That is about the only thing to make me feel fairly allright…

Let us pray for that then.

Thanks again Martha dear, Sherri

ayla : Illuminated Skye
about 6 hours later
ayla said

Dearest Martha,

I think that you stayed on subject very well.  My Dad sent me an email today that may or may not be on subject but I liked it. 

The Buzzard, The Bat, And The Bumblebee………


 THE BUZZARD: If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is
entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight
from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is its
habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life
in a small jail with no top.

THE BAT: The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkable nimble
creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on
the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no
doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can
throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.

 THE BUMBLEBEE: A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there
until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at
the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near
the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.

PEOPLE: In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee.
We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing
that all we have to do is look up!

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, But faith looks up!

Sherrilene : Living Ever Closer to Excellence!
about 7 hours later
Sherrilene said

Ayla, that, is what I call, a perfect follow-up. Thank you really, ever so much.

Loving to you. Sherri

Nicole : wakingdreamer
about 7 hours later
Nicole said

martha, i want with my whole being to believe that it is so, that all the suffering that the universe has seen is only the “birthpangs” as Paul says in the New Testament to a completely different existence of love and light where it is all abrogated… great word… it is so hard at times to believe, the suffering of the world looms so large… thank you, dear one

Nishtha : Imaginative Mellifluous Philosopher
about 12 hours later
Nishtha said

martha, thanks for this blog and i, too, think that ayla's follow-up story is perfect!

As for the tapestry revealing itself, I believe that the mystics and gnostics of yesteryear and now have caught glimpses of it, perhaps corners or swatches of it, and have tried to communicate its utter beauty and magnificence.

Since unconsciousness is still so very prevalent in our world, i kind of liken it to a fog that clouds our view… sometimes, i have the power to clear the fog away myself to catch a glimpse of this magnificence… and sometimes, try as i might, I cannot see what I know is there… and when so much time goes by and i cannot reveal the sight to reassure myself that it is, in fact, still there, I can begin to believe that i must have just imagined it… this is where i can access empathy for other unconscious beings (of whom i am one) that have not seen the Beauty/Magnificence or have convinced themselves that it never existed…

I think the bat is a Great Metaphor for how I feel in this incarnation of Myself…I need a tiny bit of elevation in order to be able take off and Fly!

Thanks again for this. :-)

maze : ordinary
about 12 hours later
maze said

in the face of love all is resolved

martha : wildlygentle
about 24 hours later
martha said

Oh I'm glad there are people out there who don't think my post was too weird.  I almost didn't post it!  :)   Thank you all SO MUCH for coming by to add your follow-ups and thoughts!

Ayla DID have the most wonderful follow-up, didn't she?  It reminds me of a saying in one of my favorite psychology videos, that rats in mazes will change their strategy after they try something two or three times and fail, but human will go their Entire Lives trying the same old thing and failing!  :(     But as Sherri and Ayla said, we just need to look up!  To remember to do so.  Which is what Nishtha was saying–about being able to see through the fog, and continuing to believe that we can.  Nishtha!  What you wrote is SO TRUE.  It is EXACTLY, EXACTLY my experience!  Amazing!  Thank you!   And Nicole, thank you for your thoughts about faith, which is what keeps us going whether we can see through the fog today or not!   And Maze, as always, love you madly!  :)  (Will that resolve everything between us?  um, about that little loan I didn't pay back yet?  and, um, that little dent, well, the dent and the transmission damage, the flat tire, the speeding tickets, and the part where you lost your job, well, what can I say?  But we're still friends, right?)

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