[Thespiritexpress] "Stop ~ Look ~ Listen" ~ This day...

[D. Sangraal]

Such a blessing to be 'inside' your morning Ron and your
deep, intimate sharing. I'm very inspired and know
"something wonderful IS happening".
D.



On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 9:36 AM cathy fantulin via Thespiritexpress <
thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

> Listen to Toni! I know, I know..the mask thing.
> Love it like you love ALL things.
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020, 8:50 AM Ron Nadeau via Thespiritexpress <
> thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
>
>> Early Morning
>> 5:37a.m.
>> (in between time)
>>
>> I like to rise early in the morning ~ there is a sense of stillness in
>> the World ~ a place I feel in my heart that knows most people are safely
>> tucked-in warm
>> with pillow and blanket~.  A sense that I’ve got the World to myself,
>> along with the first morning birds,
>> the fish, the last lingering ever so quiet nocturnal creatures like foxes
>> and owls, the flowers yet to fragile to open in the chilly morning dew~.
>>  I’m able to feel the gap between night and day in the still silence and
>> distinct sounds that are like those high funky notes at the end of a piano
>> that you rarely hear played in the body of a composition but you know they
>> are there for a purpose ~ the still silent transition between the dark and
>> the light. Together they are one day ~ my morning catch that is the flavor
>> of both, as the sun is subtlety becoming more luminescent as though some
>> Angel has Her fingers on the dimmer bringing up a presence that stirs and
>> blends
>> my thoughts and perceptions into the alchemy of this day's unfolding~.
>> I meet this day and everyday since I was 26 years old with a bit of
>> wisdom spoken by the Master to his student in one of Og Mandino’s books:
>> *“I greet this day with love in my heart”*
>>
>> This has helped to set the tone of the day like a cathedral bell to help
>> unite in my thinking mind with my feeling heart~.
>> Lately I’ve gone to bed with a sore throat and I’ve awakened with a sore
>> throat ~ Toni says it is because I’ve been spending too much time outside
>> in the smoke
>> without a mask, breathing in too much smoke~. Of course she is correct ~
>> and later in an e-mail to someone I write jokingly:
>> ~"Today I smoked three fir trees, with a hint of manzanita and oak along
>> with a faint nose of an old barn, parts of condo and…” …and I *stop* to
>> consider what other ashes am I taking in from this funeral pyre carried
>> in the winds~.
>>
>> …and I *stop* to feel within ~ I *stop* in this moment with love in my
>> heart to take-in something else — the over 3 million acres ablaze and as
>> yet to be
>> counted thousands of homes, businesses and lives that have been consumed~.
>> I’ve talked with a friend who barely got out when the phone rang at 2:00
>> a.m. “get out now!" - they barely made it~.
>> Their newly built home and all their personal and prized collections went
>> up in the consuming dance of Mother Nature's inferno who shows us a thing
>> or two about consumption~.
>> They, along with others in Oregon went to work double time rescuing
>> others - moving those who have been trapped in Covid isolation in
>> Convalescent Care facilities
>> away from loved one’s, smoke and burning towns ~ imagine these challenges…
>>
>> ~I finally spoke with a man I tried connecting with for two days as the
>> cell tower was out ~ the fire only 45 mins. away ~ he was gathering what he
>> could~. I talked with a mother, her two children (one with asthma) and
>> their dog in a traffic caravan of smoke and ash soaked cars, trucks and
>> trailers driving toward the promise of a lower air index - Arizona… Last
>> night they found themselves in a roadside motel in the outskirts of Reno
>>
>> ~As the days shorten and seemingly shrink in the space between the dark
>> time, the still silent moment between each breath, the fraction of a second
>> between each heart beat and as each thought dissolves from one to another ~
>> see if you can *stop* thinking, *look* within and *listen* deeper for
>> the whisper of your Soul that is saying
>> something wonderful to you ~ enjoy the day as there is a faint but yet
>> perceivable message in the stillness and in each photon capsule of every
>> ray of light ~~~
>> and in the seeming darkness of each night and every day waiting to be
>> received…
>> “It” is in every ever present precious moment of Now~.
>>
>> *“I greet this day with Love in my heart”*
>> *This Breath*
>> ~Ron
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Do not forget that the ashes falling from the sky are all that remains of
>> the pine and grass and thistle; they are also someones loved ones,
>> cherished belongings, un-replaceable items, beloved animals, wild animals,
>> bears, coyotes, deer, and mice & sooo many other creatures that could not
>> escape. Scoop some up in a sacred manner. Take it to your altar. Offer
>> prayers for these beings. Honor their death. Pray for life. Call in rain.
>> Remind Fire that it is full, has gobbled enough, and can rest. May all
>> beings be safe. May all beings be loved. May all beings be remembered. May
>> all beings be mourned.  - Source unknown
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