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Blog 466 – 11.15.2016

Probably some of the saddest words ever spoken are, “If I had only known…” followed by phrases like:

– I’d never speak with to Dad or Mom again.
– I’d never see my brother or sister again.
– That my child would never come home. 
– That my best friend would be gone.

But we did and do know that these things are all possible. We just don’t pay enough attention. We miss so very much not living fully concious lives. “Awake, oh sleeper.” Is the clarion call down through the ages. Just to open our eyes, our hearts, our minds is to be awake to all the multitude of possibilties. Remember when you were a child and you hated bedtime because you were afraid you were going to miss something? What has so thoroughly lulled that inner child to sleep. Just a few of the culprits might be:

– The cares of this life
– The deceitfulness of riches
–  Disappointment
–  Depression
–  Pain

These things have been around a long time but seem to be epidemic in our modern society. The cure is not food, drink, smoke, or pills or even sleep. The real cure is rediscovering why we are here, a sense of excitement, a sense of discovery, a sense of purpose.

I jokingly closed a Facebook teaser I recently posted trying to encourage people to read my blog with, “Peak-a-boo. I see you.” Did you ever play peak-a-boo with a baby? They smile so big and brightly, so excited to see you each time as if it were the first time or had been a long time in between. When was the last time you saw that bright smile of love and acknowledgement in the mirror?

I believe we are here to find our selves and not to earn or to find our way home as some believe. Some believe we were kicked out of heaven, paradise for conspiring with the Enemy who had also been kicked out, he and his gang, for refusing to bow down to God. The only element of truth in those myths is that angels and men were created and the Great Separation is but an idea in the mind of man. The moment he, we, first entertained that idea we made the Ego so we would have something to support us in that idea, a serpent in paradise so to speak. We are not told in the story where the serpent came from or how he came to be able to talk. That is, I think because he is ego, man’s creature, a puny attempt to resist, oppose, and reject God. All nonesense really, for if God is truly all in all as it says, He is in us therefore to will and to do His good pleasure and we cannot resist, oppose, or reject him for He is us and we are Him.

When we “come to our self”, remember who we truly are, wake up as it were, we are home free. Remember the childhood games Hide ‘n Seek and Kick the Can? They are just a little bit more advanced versions of Peak-a-boo with the added, “You’re out. No I’m not, I’m safe. Home-free. Ollie, ollie oxen free which is child code for “I am safe. I am home.”

One of my favorite Randy Newman songs says of a real loving relationship:

“Feels like home to me
Feels like home to me
Feels like I’m all the way back
Where I came from.

Feels like home to me
Feels like home to me
Feels like I’m all the way back
Where I belong.”

We do belong, we always have. You don’t have to join a family. You just wake up each and every day knowing you belong.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White