SPIRIT TRAILS: Do it anyway...

My spirit is 'wandering' today...having PEACEFUL PRESENCE, after a long, quiet spiritual walk. I was in touch with 'my spirit' as I walked – and my guardian angel, Tanya – and a bit with Mother Mary, too. Tho I walked fast and taxed my heart and lungs a bit (finally, after 2 weeks of pushing every other day – just to GET OUT THERE!), today I felt I was in a different “space'.

My body was more a leader than a participant. I was more in tune with my inner feelings...inner energy, which is why I believe I had that extra energy, greater than usual.

My counselor and I trade book titles and sayings and poems – we boost each other (or at least she boosts me!). I hope I help...

Anyway, we shared several poems which I now share with you below. I hope they help your day to be more Loving, more 'energized'...filled with ethereal thoughts of the 'greater good'.

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,
people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful,
you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough.
Give the best you've got anyway.

You see,
in the final analysis it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway.

MOTHER THERESA

Some say this was rewritten by her from a poem by Kent M. Keith;

The Paradoxical Commandments

by Dr. Kent M. Keith

1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
   Love them anyway.

2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
   Do good anyway.

3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
   Succeed anyway.

4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
   Do good anyway.

5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
   Be honest and frank anyway.

6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
   Think big anyway.

7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
   Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
   Build anyway.

9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
   Help people anyway.

10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.

© 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith

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Then there is one of my favorites...a poem whose words sustained me several times along my earlier life-road, when the world weighed heavy on my heart and soul;

INVICTUS …A POEM FREQUENTLY RECITED BY NELSON MANDELA

by English poet   

William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

 

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

Nurturing Verse

Poems on nature
put beauty in reach;
their paintings may bid us reread!

But verses of nurture
can morally teach
to beautify life with a creed.

— David L. Hatton, 5/31/2018

https://allpoetry.com/poem/13920183-Nurturing-Verse-by-Pastordavidrn

May your day be filled with all that Nature has to offer. Talk to a bird nearby; notice the perfection in a cloud; feel the temperature of the breeze as it passes your cheek; appreciate your home, family and friends - while remembering there are many on this Earth without these blessings!  Smile at your neighbor – even as his dog roams your lawn; pull over and let the tailgater behind you - buzz past you; give your mailperson a warm hello (they may especially need it today); tell your spouse he or she is your sunshine – even if they are scowling today.

BE your spirit today – give out as much Love and kindness as you can. 

As Mother Theresa said...”Do it anyway”!

Nature prevails....even in the shadows.

Vaccine Trails: TO YOUR DOOR!

It sounds SO "community" oriented - so "helpful".  But is it really?  Might it be the CDC, WHO and your "caring" local health organization taking - yet - a bit more freedom from us?  Getting us just a LITTLE BIT more used to the "government" ((in this case the LOCAL government)) used to being told what to do.  It is hard to refuse HELP...when it is at your front door!!!

 Please read the following article.

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/frontlinenews/door-to-door-covid-shot-pushers-report-unvaccinated-to-government-health-departments/

Question this new approach to KEEPING US SAFE.  Ask yourself - if there is another - more FREEDOM ORIENTED way to do this?  Could - maybe...the shots be AVAILABLE at the local (EACH TOWN/COMMUNITY) building, and do a 911 call as they do with a tornado and OFFER rides for anyone INTERESTED in the vaccine?  Or do a MASS MAILING telling. ..OFFERING EVERYONE the vaccine locally? 

AT YOUR DOOR....think about it folks.  IT IS OUR FREEDOM WE ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!!

WAKE UP!!  This SAFETY thing is WAY out of control.

My Real Estate broker from years ago when I was a Realtor in Denver, a wise, intelligent, educated person said to me one day, when there was a Police car out front of the building that said  TO SERVE AND PROTECT; 

"Danielle...see that word PROTECT?  Be careful, just be careful, as the years go by".  

I was young - in my 30's - the world looked FREE and available to me.  The IGNORANCE of youth.  It was the 1970's...right after the 1960's...when people could march for their rights - speak up without the fear of today.  I marched in Washington in 1974 - along with about 50,000 other citizens. We talked to Congress-people, stated our requests - our 'redress' from our REPRESENTATIVES. Is that still possible?  NO!!  Back then...I thought I could do anything!  FOREVER.  After all - I lived in the USA!!!

Am I overreacting?  Or are we really letting our precious freedom of movement, decisions about our bodies, our freedom to speak on any subject - respectfully and openly (WITHOUT BEING CENSORED BY SOCIAL MEDIA!) slowly slip away - under the umbrella guise of SAFETY?  

Interesting....first we are ENCOURAGED to put our communications with each other - away from private HOUSE phone conversations...into public arenas...THEN - we are censored in those arenas.   Are we being led like sheep, to do someone else's bidding so we are more 'transparent' to the 'powers that be'?  This is a question EACH AMERICAN MUST ask themselves; HOW FAR WILL WE COMPLY...to be SAFE.  

STAR-TREK anyone? The BORG...RESISTANCE IS FULTILE!  You MUST COMPLY!

This PANDEMIC is only several points higher in death toll than the regular yearly FLU. Why the worldwide scare that transformed AN ENTIRE PLANET- into overwhelming fear and hiding - in only 2 months?!  AN ENTIRE PLANET, FOLKS! 

What if it REALLY WAS A PLAGUE?!

JUST HOW SAFE must we be...from ourselves...

***********************FROM OURSELVES?!************************

THE GOVERNMENT'S JOB IS TO KEEP US SAFE FROM OUTSIDERS - NOT OURSELVES!  There is a LARGE - VERY LARGE price to pay for "ourselves safety".

As I drove out of New York State years ago - the seat belt law had just passed there.  I recall the then - Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the radio.  The crux of his comment was..."The government just got their hands inside your car; how long till they have them...inside your house?"  Door to door vaccine push?...gettin' pretty close, me 'tinks. 

Think about that.  

Read serious articles about how we are "connected" to the Chinese government.  Then - read how easily the Chinese Government CONTROL THEIR CITIZENS.  Do we want to live under that type of "governing"?  Just how dependent are we to the Chinese?  If our nation chose to say NO to them...how bad would it be if they stopped ALL CHINESE PRODUCTS that we use in the USA from coming into our country?  THINK ABOUT THAT.

There IS a price to pay for GROWING UP and being RESPONSIBLE FOR OURSELVES!  We are not-so-slowly...giving up that responsibility.  Along with that goes - our FREEDOM. Aren't we supposed to wear our BIG BOY/GIRL PANTS WHEN WE TURN  21?!

We are allowing ourselves to be treaded like CHILDREN...safe but controlled.

*****Where are we going?  Look at history.  

*****What PRICE are we paying - and willing to continue paying....to be "SAFE"?  SAFE from what; more importantly - safe from WHO...ourselves?  I myself - an Italian who will hug just about anybody - given half a chance; even I am more cautious now when I approach ANYONE;  Where are my 6 feet?'  I hear in my mind.  OMG...what enculturation in less than 2 years!  

OMG, what have we taught our children?!!!!!

NATURE PREVAILS.