May 2017

Thou Shall Not Challenge The CREATOR!

May 26, 2017 / / Life and Living

I will never forget how I felt when anyone said something unkind or derogatory about my children!  In fact, even now, I know if I heard anything uncomplimentary about my son who nears 51 years old, I would feel the same pierce in my heart, the same bolt of having been hit in my gut, and the lioness in me would arise in defense!  I was known to say, “I can say anything, they are my sons, but you have no rights to assess my boys”, or something like that.

This said, even I should not say anything.  By whose authority do I have the right to suggest the Creator has done an imperfect job?! My sons found their place onto this planet through me, their human birth mother, and yet, even I have no rights to judge their perfection or imperfection from any standpoint.  I can dislike behavior, but that is as far as it goes, and has nothing to do with Love.

Think of the bigots in this world, who take the authority to judge people to an eternity of Hell, if they don’t follow a particular religious credo.   What about the LGBT community which has fallen prey to gossip mongering, unleashed opinions, religious persecution of unbelievable proportions.   The anti-Semite!…  The voices of prejudice!  Bullies all!

Who on this planet has the right to challenge the MIGHTIEST!   I wonder how it appears to the Creator, when a ‘Createe’ suggests there is imperfection on this earth!  WHERE IS THE HUMAN AUTHORITY HERE?!

Would that each of us look inside and make perfectly sure that the interior of our human shell is scrubbed clean…and when able to say, “Now, I am an absolutely perfect human being and I possess the authority to judge those I deem lesser than myself”….ONLY THEN, place yourself alongside THE CREATOR!

Shame on all who see themselves superior or ‘entitled’ to anything created around them!

Gratitude for all miracles of creation around us (ourselves included, of course)….A loving and honorable realization that begins from within.

 

 

 

I Am The Mother of All [My] Mothers! …. So Far!

May 14, 2017 / / Life and Living, Love, True Forgiveness and Understanding

It was a hot July 22nd, 1965, in Arizona….the day I was born a Mother… and again, on August 6th, 1966, … infamous days in my lifetime,  right up to this  Mother’s Day, May 14th, 2017.

I know I didn’t grasp what it meant to be a mother all those years ago…and I’m pretty sure I didn’t give much subjective thought to this role as I related to my responsibilities.   I tried to do ‘the right thing’  and no question I loved both of my sons to the depths of my heart and Soul.

I KNOW FOR CERTAIN what unconditional love feels like!   I can remember as if it were yesterday,  my EXACT FEELINGS when the tiny bodies were placed on my chest, and my heart actually swooned with a surge of protectiveness and awe and wonderment as never before.  This feeling went throughout my whole body, and it belonged only to me because these tiny moving life-beings had lived within me for 9 months, and came through me to present to the world and live on their own because I already existed for their passageway. 

I was directed  – the boys had good health care, dental care, foot care, home care ( a good roof over their heads); however, they had a mother who had her own agenda about what she wanted to do and how and  when she wanted to do it!

As years passed, the phrase “I did the best I could with the knowledge I had” became a convenient, yet true, statement – especially if I was qualifying some of my ‘missteps’.

The boys grew into men.  I remain their mother with good intention, and, thankfully, with much more  knowledge of what motherhood really does mean to me today.   Like any lesson I ever had to learn – this has come the hard way, i.e., many ‘series of events’ which again and again required my decision to keep-on-keeping-on!   In spite of all else, a mother does keep going when the going gets tough!

Birth designates motherhood, and death does not take that away.  Although my eldest son is gone, I am still the mother of two sons!  Souls are withstanding, hearts soften, and I have actually succumbed to a much broader  interpretation of the existence of My Self and My Soul…My Higher Self.  As I was chanting my Buddhist prayers this morning, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, I came to tears, and at that moment in time I knew I was atoning for all the mothers I have been and all the mothers I have had since I became. 

This declaration is personal only to me, and acknowledges a huge awareness within.  I am totally free OF THE PETTINESS OF THOUGHT which I have held my dear departed mother hostage to from the day my birth created her, my mother!

Blessed are we… all Mothers – to be cherished and treasured just because of our creation alone…no deeds counted.  I believe we’ve all meant well – through all generations… centuries upon centuries…and we all carried with us our baggage and rules that determined our choices and decisions.  I believe we play out our Karma in this life and from those lives past.

No more false imprisonment of all [my]mothers past…those mothers I have been or those who have been mine!  I HAVE A COUNTENANCE OF PEACE…THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING TO FORGIVE, ONLY UNDERSTAND.

THIS IS MY HAPPIEST MOTHER’S DAY EVER…I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS AWARENESS.  Blessed Be to All.