Today, I listened...

It was a beautiful, sunny day in Northern Arizona so I decided to sit out in the back yard for a while. There was a slight breeze blowing and things couldn't be more perfect. In just a short while, I began to doze off and almost forget where I was at. It was so relaxing.

Although, I was about half asleep I began to listen to all the different noises around the neighborhood. This particular area is at the edge of town and people have all sorts of things growing around here, things that might not be allowed in the city.All sort of critters...
Besides, everyone having too many dogs that bark constantly at everything, or sometimes nothing, we also have quite an array of cats(gives the dogs something else to bark at), and on down the road someone has a bunch of Geese. I have never seen them but they are making their distinctive sounds all day..all night. If I hadn't been raised on a farm their incessant noise could easily become irritating.A couple blocks over someone has horses, and I remember(somewhere) seeing a cow. So many different living beings and all totally different. I know they can't all think alike or be the same and yet (I realized) they don't spend all their time fighting with the ones that are NOT like THEM.They, actually, get along better than humans...
Watching the clouds rolling across the sky, I began to think about the one that created all this...including myself. The one and ONLY Creator...What some call God, others, maybe something else. But as the saying goes: A rose by any other name...

If for only a moment, we as individuals, would stop and look at all God has created and the wonder of his perfection (Perfect in his eyes and for his reasons), we might have to ask ourselves WHY would he go to all that trouble just so someone can come along and destroy it? I was told long ago that God is found in the SILENCE, not in the words of man or anything that man has tampered with. Men can't seem to help being anything but self- serving and meddlesome. Maybe, we would be better off talking directly to our Creator instead of listening to other men or reading and living by some book that,  GOD ONLY KNOWS, who wrote...
I, seriously, do not think evil was suppose to be the dish of the day. Nor did our Creator intend for us ALL to be the same, and in one way or another, to be different, for whatever reason.  Somewhere along the line men took it upon themselves to start judging God's DIFFERENT handiworks. If I remember the story right, someone else took it upon himself to rebel and try to take the place of the Creator. I hear he got in big trouble for that childish fit...
Whatever happened to meeting new(and different) peoples and each learning from one another? As to skin  color or anything else, it is only skin deep. Beneath all that, there isn't two ounces of different in any of us...Like it or not! I think humanity's biggest problem is ATTITUDES! Try smiling at a stranger instead of throwing rocks. Hopefully, he will smile back and all is well...
It is said that we should return good for evil. That is dang hard to do, UNLESS, we decide we are better than the guy with the bad attitude. A stronger person will do what is right, and I think we all (REALLY) know in our hearts, what is right and what is not.
Hate is never a cure for hate...

NOT HIS TIME...

I remember watching a show on TV years ago, about where they found a prehistoric man frozen and preserved in the ice near the North Pole. With nothing to lose, the scientists worked and worked, thawed the man out and finally brought him back to life. A man that had lived approximately 25,000 years ago...

Needless to say, the poor man was in an acute state of shock, to wake up in a strange place and a strange time; nothing like anything he had known. All these strange people moving about and all looking at him. I can only imagine what must have been going through  this 25,000 year old man's mind. He was making noises totally unfamiliar to the modern day scientists, but some of the local Eskimo elders recognized that what he was saying was in a language even ancient to them.They could barely make out what he was trying to say, but finally realized he was asking a question. He was asking...where his children were? I hate to say it but I could almost feel the pain of his loss... As frightened as this man was, he still worried, first, about his loved ones. Right away, many of the scientists realized they had made a mistake reviving this man. He was lost and didn't belong here...in this time...this place...

I have heard some say they would like to live forever, but what if we could, but our loved ones could not? I think the loss of family and things familiar to us is a part of who we are and without these, we would be lost and like a fish out of water. I guess maybe this is why we live for a time, then our time is past. It is time to move on and leave this place we have known  for such a short time.

In the movie, the scientists built a place for the prehistoric man, duplicating conditions that he would have known in his day...in his time. Despite their efforts, the man remained lost. This was not his place in time and he was slowly declining in health and spirit.
The ending to the movie was a real shocker and in a moment of desperation, the man escaped from his simulated enclosure, managed to climb in to a helicopter(like a bird to him, I guess), without being seen. Once the machine was airborne, they realized what had happened, but too late...The pilot was helpless to do anything and the scientists below could only watch in horror as the man leaped from the helicopter and to his death.

The local elders told of an ancient belief and stories of people flying away at their time of death. This was not this man's world and he apparently decided to fly home to be with his family.

When the dismayed scientists laid his broken body in the earth, some of the local people came and placed a small  totem to mark his spot. Whoever this man had been, because of the language similarity, he may have been an ancestor. It was the least they  could do...

So Goes The Boomerang...

I have always understood that the Universe(if one can understand it) has certain laws , by which it exists and operates. It seems that a simple 'what goes around, comes around' idea is the basis of the whole. If that is true, WHAT are we doing to ourselves?

When I was a kid, we were taught to treat others as we wanted to be treated in return; Good for good, bad for bad (if that's what we wanted). I know, I don't want any bad to be done to ME...

 I look around me now, and what I see, makes me think that not all have been taught that same universal lesson. 

 I never quite understood the ' turn the other cheek' saying, but as I get older I am beginning to. I know there are times when one might give the other guy a second chance to reconsider, but it's also true that, at some point, one has to defend oneself...Enough is enough, but if everyone learned and honored that rule, obviously put in place by the Creator of all, we wouldn't have most of the problems we have...

Regardless of the excuses used (by whoever), anytime one human hurts another (intentionally)... it is wrong! There is no doubt in my mind that this law was put into place by some unseen(as yet, unexplained), when the universe was (however) created. I'm sure the great Lawgiver doesn't care about out petty politics, our various versions of something none of us can accurately explain, only that love is the strongest force...NOT hate!

We are all born, we live,then we pass on. We are given so little precious time, and I believe what we do with it determines what happens next. The idea of harming another for any reason is not going to keep that BOOMERANG from coming back...

New Day, New Chance...

We all have good days and, sometimes, a lot of bad ones. No matter how bad it may seem, it CAN be worse...Like, No MORE chances...
When we wake up in the morning we often think of how bad we feel; like we wished we didn't have to get up at all...

It may seem like life in general stinks, but be honest and ask yourself, what good have you done lately? What have you, as an individual, done to make anything better for humanity? Most send what time they have complaining about what they DON'T have, seldom do we appreciate what we have when we wake up in the morning... Simple! We have another CHANCE, to correct our mistakes. To fix the wrong we did yesterday. If we are not here to make things better, then what's the point?

Consider the alternative...that you might not get another chance, and NOT wake up. It's over! No going back.. no chance to make things better. Oh..for another chance!
 I believe too many people in this life waste their precious(limited) time trying to fix others; to  draw them into THEIR way of thinking. Maybe they just need company, in their misery?  Sad!

We all have to fight to remain free of the constant turmoil that surrounds us, but we are all individuals, that have to SHARE our planet, so instead of complaining and moaning all the time, get up in the morning, embrace the new day.  Appreciate the fact that you have another chance to really make a difference. Make that your  purpose for the day. make it a GOOD day...