Blog 390 – 08.30.2016

Over the weekend I re-posted one of my earlier blogs called “Flower Strewn Pathways” that piece was inspired by the first line of a Helen Steiner Rice poem in which the poet wrote that God had not promised flower strewn pathways all our lives through. I took issue with Miss Rice as my life has always been flower strewn.

I also left out in the quoting of the first line her poem the first phrase “God has not promised skies always blue.” Reading over my re-post before sending it out into the wide world again and noticing that I had left out the blue skies I realized that I had yet another conflict with the poet’s premise, the missing blue skies.

You see the blue skies are really always there during the day anyway. They only appear to be missing because the clouds obscure our vision of them. Just like the sun is always shining though the turning of the earth prevents us from seeing it sometimes as the clouds do.

Crazy Dave, what are you getting at? Just this that blue skies and sunshine are always with us as constant reminders of the sweet abiding and sustaining love of the Universe. That is a truth that need not be learned or debated but we must unlearn our fear and mistrust to enjoy them. If you find yourself always looking for proof of shortage, evil, or injustice in the world you will surely find the clouds and the dark night that seemingly obscures the blue skies and the sun but neither the clouds nor the darkness is real.

Love makes things real. Fear (which seems to be the opposite of love) and its eldest children, hate and want, is an illusion or more correctly a delusion. There is only love, fear, the delusion, being the perceived lack of it.

“Blue skies shining on me. Nothing but blue skies do I see.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White