What myriad gifts bless all of us that live in a country where freedom reigns. In so many parts of the world, even blogs like this about Love would be subject to review and censorship. Instead, you may feel free to share any thoughts you have with your fellow caregivers by clicking on Comments, below. Have a Happy Fourth of July weekend!
With love,
Erie
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How blessed are we to live in America and to experience a freedom earned through the great sacrifices of our fore fathers and mothers, our brothers and our sisters.
Poems of the American Revolution
~From Poets.org
No more, America, in mournful strain,
Of wrongs and grievance unredressed complain;
No longer shall thou dread the iron chain
Which wanton Tyranny, with lawless hand,
Had made, and with it meant t’ enslave the land.
—from “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Darthmouth”
by Phillis Wheatley
Today I am reflecting upon the free will to choose Love. To me, the definition of sin is the mistaken belief that we are separate from God. When this occurs, we live in fear of loss. Freedom from fear is to release ourselves from thoughts that we are anything less than God’s beautiful creation and to experience joy in this knowing. To see God in others and to share in His gifts of Love is to understand true freedom.
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“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness-”
This Declaration and the pursuit of loving existence makes it all worthwhile…..
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DAY 187
I wish to share this beautiful foreward from the book, “Tears and Laughter” by Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited by my agonized self, into calm. It is my fervent hope that my whole life on this earth will ever be tears and laughter.
Tears that purify my heart and reveal to me the secret of life and its mystery,
Laughter that brings me closer to my fellow men;
Tears with which I join the broken hearted,
Laughter that symbolizes joy over my very existence.
I prefer death through happiness a thousandfold to life in vain and despair.
An eternal hunger for love and beauty is my desire; I know now that those who possess bounty alone are naught but miserable, but to my spirit the sighs of lovers are more soothing than the music of the lyre.
When night comes, the flower folds its petals and slumbers with Love and at dawn, it opens its lips to receive the Sun’s kisses, bespeckled by quick dartings of clouds which come, but surely go.
The life of flowers is hope and fulfillment and peace; tears and laughter.
The water disappears and ascends until it turns into clouds that gather upon the hills and valleys; and when it meets the breeze, it falls down upon the fields and joins the brook that sings its way toward the sea.
The life of clouds is a life of farewell and a life of reunion; tears and laughter.
Thus the spirit separates itself from the body and walks into the world of substance, passing like clouds over the valleys of sorrow and mountains of happiness until it meets the breeze of death and returns to its starting place, the endless ocean of love and beauty which is God.
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SUNDAY DAY 188
Funny, that last night I was looking for something else and I came across Gabran’s beautiful message. It seemed the Holy Spirit’s response to sharing thoughts with a friend about sadness and joy.
This morning I continued reading. “See the Love of God in you, and you will see it everywhere because it is everywhere. See His abundance in everyone, and you will know that you are in Him with them. They are a part of you, as you are a part of God. The peace of God is understanding this.
This correction enables you to perceive any part of creation as wholly real, wholly perfect, and wholly desirable. Wanting this only, you will have this only, and giving this only, you will be only this. The gifts you offer to the ego are always experienced as sacrifices, but the gifts you offer to the Kingdom are gifts to you” (pg. 120, A Course in Miracles).
If you are God’s Will and do not accept His Will you are denying joy. The miracle is therefore a lesson in what joy is. Being a lesson in sharing it is a lesson in love, which is joy. Every miracle is thus a lesson in truth, and by offering truth you are learning the difference between pain and joy” (CIM, pg.125).
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