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Ceasing the FRET
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I've heard said that the majority of our fears are irrational to the extent we haul them around even when and particularly when no danger is present. And might the answer be discovered in the last word of the above sentence? Present. The word demands our attention but we too often go with the painfully predictable or the many familiar falsehoods.
You know you can't change the past but you can ruin the present by trying to. God gives a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball for forecasting our futures. Both extremes are banal, nothing but tommyrot! Also, both conditions are gravely dangerous to twaddle with. With one foot in yesterday and the other in tomorrow, we straddle the present in an almost concussed dividing of our minds.
George MacDonald penned the following and it makes profoundly good and common sense:
“The next hour, the next moment, is as much beyond our grasp and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for the morrow, or for a day in the next thousand years—in neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. Those claims only of the morrow which have to be prepared today are of the duty of today: the moment which coincides with work to be done, is the moment to be minded; the next is nowhere till God has made it.”
Excerpt From: C. S. Lewis. “George MacDonald.”
Read that again for there are excellent reasons for redundancy. The mind is less apt to wander when in the present. It's practically impossible to panic while living in the present -- right NOW!
Do dogs worry? Not that I can see. They aren't aware of yesterday's squabble at the dog park or concerned the same cranky canine might show up tomorrow. They're quite content with now.
Could it be that worry is nothing more than a bad habit? Jesus seemed to think so. "How will worrying add a single hour to your life span?" It won't and He knows we know it. What do we get from worrying? Some puerile and pitiful feeling of having some control? Common sense shouts 'Yes' but we are determined to lug and tote yesteryear's regrets and tomorrow if not 10 years from NOW along as a soldier bears the weight of his Rucksack!
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."
Remember, there's often a very good reason for redundancy.
Natalie Cole - Unforgettable Concert (1992) 25 TUNES
Natalie Cole - 1992 Concert LIVE (I saw her in Cincinnati outside in same year). She didn’t miss a note. 01. Overture 02. The Very Thought Of You 03. This Can't Be Love 04. Paper Moon 05. Nature Boy 06. Mona Lisa 07. Lush Life 08. Non Dimenticar 09. Almost Like Being In Love 10. Route 66 11. Straighten Up And Fly Right 12. This Will Make You Laugh 13. Frim Fram Sauce 14. For All We Know 15. The Song Is Ended 16. Smile 17. That Sunday That Summer 18. L-O-V-E 19. Orange Colored Sky 20. Thou Swell 21. Medley: Sentimental Reasons; Tenderly; Autumn Leaves 22. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 23. Dance Ballerina Dance 24. Unforgettable 25. Avalon Natalie Maria Cole was an American singer, voice actress, songwriter, and actress. The daughter of Nat King Cole, she rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable", and "Our Love". Cole re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". ______________ Please subscribe and like the video! The gist of this channel is happiness through song, silence, surrender, mystery, nature, awareness, inclusion, creativity, dropping drama, and simplicity. Please feel free to share and contribute and if you haven’t yet, click on the link below to subscribe. Content is updated several times weekly. Remember to stay in the day and drop useless and negative thoughts. It is what it is what it is. Be at peace my friends.
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Natalie Cole - 1992 Concert LIVE (I saw her in Cincinnati outside in same year). She didn’t miss a note. 01. Overture 02. The Very Thought Of You 03. This Can't Be Love 04. Paper Moon 05. Nature Boy 06. Mona Lisa 07. Lush Life 08. Non Dimenticar 09. Almost Like Being In Love 10. Route 66 11. Straighten Up And Fly Right 12. This Will Make You Laugh 13. Frim Fram Sauce 14. For All We Know 15. The Song Is Ended 16. Smile 17. That Sunday That Summer 18. L-O-V-E 19. Orange Colored Sky 20. Thou Swell 21. Medley: Sentimental Reasons; Tenderly; Autumn Leaves 22. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 23. Dance Ballerina Dance 24. Unforgettable 25. Avalon Natalie Maria Cole was an American singer, voice actress, songwriter, and actress. The daughter of Nat King Cole, she rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable", and "Our Love". Cole re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". ______________ Please subscribe and like the video! The gist of this channel is happiness through song, silence, surrender, mystery, nature, awareness, inclusion, creativity, dropping drama, and simplicity. Please feel free to share and contribute and if you haven’t yet, click on the link below to subscribe. Content is updated several times weekly. Remember to stay in the day and drop useless and negative thoughts. It is what it is what it is. Be at peace my friends.
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I enjoy both reading and writing quotes. Hope you will find even a few meaningful.
Today is the tomorrow that worried you yesterday and all is well.
When you’re in your mind you’re not at peace and when you’re at peace you’re not in your mind.
It’s virtually impossible to panic when fully present.
What is happiness? Drop your fears, attachments, illusions and the historical egoistically driven storyline and you will know.
Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.
Once patience becomes easy, paradoxically, the hardest part is over.
Forgiveness is to set your hostage free and then realise that you were the only prisoner.
Nearly 100 percent of all inner conflict stems from continuing to question the simple answer well after it already has.
Diego Torres - Que Sera (MTV Unplugged)
Please subscribe and like the video! The gist of this channel is happiness through song, silence, surrender, mystery, nature, awareness, inclusion, creativity, dropping drama, and simplicity. Please feel free to share and contribute and if you haven’t yet, click on the link below to subscribe. Content is updated several times weekly. Remember to stay in the day and drop useless and negative thoughts. It is what it is what it is. Be at peace my friends.
Relaxing nature sounds. Check my music out here:
_____________________________
I enjoy both reading and writing quotes. Hope you will find even a few meaningful.
Today is the tomorrow that worried you yesterday and all is well.
When you’re in your mind you’re not at peace and when you’re at peace you’re not in your mind.
It’s virtually impossible to panic when fully present.
What is happiness? Drop your fears, attachments, illusions and the historical egoistically driven storyline and you will know.
Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.
Once patience becomes easy, paradoxically, the hardest part is over.
Forgiveness is to set your hostage free and then realise that you were the only prisoner.
Nearly 100 percent of all inner conflict stems from continuing to question the simple answer well after it already has.
Your Image of God Shapes You! -Richard Rohr
Your image of God shapes you by Richard Rohr
This thread snapped a long time ago. Sweet Mother of a Split Hair and a Mountainous Molehill. Jesus thought such as this to be equally jejune. "You strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel!” Last heard, we were at around 33,000 de-nomiinations and it’s comically clear that we can and will complicate a one car funeral. Really. Read this overly theatrical theologically illogical thread and it’s more divisionally senseless than an outdoors quilting convention. Christ conveyed a stunningly simple truth and we’d sooner drink Drano than be stunned by simplicity. Our hubris raised hell, earned heaven, hated grace and was bound by de-nominationally determined domination to rescore Christ’s sermon on the mount and make it but mere moonshine. I recently read where the American adage: “United we stand, divided we fall,” has conclusively been thought entirely too confusing, by a feckless few theologians, for the common herd to clue into and thus, a concordance is in order. Indeed! What could that polysemic double entendre possibly mean? Well, soon we’ll all find out. To be sure, some won’t like what they’ll find and a multiplicity of splinter cell small group studies will convoke to discern what the deeper semantical meaning just might mean and then each group will justify what it means. Another churlish chapter is to be written into ‘Christianity’ and all for the sake of yet another common enemy.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” But, in America, we don’t have much use for blessing the beasts and the children. Could it be we too soon see them both as the same? And the elderly? "Unless you change and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” But that’s going backwards, isn’t it? A child wouldn’t want to imagine messing up a one car funeral. And Mother Mary or just Mary? (Trying to contain the camel). Mary saw her Son bloody, naked and unashamed on two occasions. At Jesus’s birth and at Christ’s death. Human AND Divine. But? No. “Grace AND Truth.” (John 1:27) Hardly dualistic.
Unlike much of today’s ‘Christianity’ these two words aren’t mutually exclusive. Somehow, neither EITHER nor OR, ‘You’re Wrong BUT I’m Right’ got tossed into the divisional mix. Truth absent Grace isn’t truth, it’s hostility and if you hold the idea of ‘love thine enemies’ (often merely thine neighbour) in contempt, the hostility metastasises and hatred will hold you hostage. Humiliation is its own convincing and when it hurts, let it. Being committed to everything yet surrendered to nothing just won’t get any of us there. And the little beasts and innocent children are very much the same in three unitive ways: They don’t judge. They don’t compare. They don’t compete. Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. If we chose our friends with the same highly conditional exclusivity as we do our so-called foes, we’d likely have far fewer of both. "For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?” None of us requires a concordance or even much common sense to get what Christ was getting at, and, is still this very second getting at.
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