Pride and arrogance...mine

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends:I want to apologize for my persistent foray into the

political arena every time I try to post for peace :-) It has been a

struggle for me to accept the resistance with which I have often been

received when I "cross the line." Rather than really examine why

some people would react in such a fashion to my antiwar sentiments, I

chose to consider myself correct rather than allow myself to be

corrected. In other words, I chose to muddy the line rather than

examine it as it related to my own behvior.In my efforts to

understand, I had to examine not only what I was saying but why I was

saying it the way that I did. After all, what is wrong with reference

to the legislators, I would ask myself. Anxious to please myself, I

would always find some reason to justify what I had done. "How can

you just stand by? How can you be so immune to the despair of

others? How can you be so cold?..." I would go through the litany

of justifications. If this is detachment, then I want to remain

attached. The lawyer in me prevailed, always helping me find the

loophole :-)Yet, mixed in the fabric of my self satisfaction was a

new thread of uncertainty that slowly has become the overwhelming

pattern in the design that is mine. I now Realize :-) that my efforts

also call for action on the part of others, in particular, specific

political action focused in a specific political arena. The only

actions I should be trying to control are my own! God will take care

of the rest and if I want to think that I know how to surrender then I

should know how to surrender.So, to those whom I have offended, I am

sorry. To those who tolerated me with the patience of the saints,

thank you for your grace despite my getting in your face. Forgive me

for I knew not what I did :-) Now that I "think" I do :-), below is

my poem revised just for you:

 

Dear God, how do I love thee?I cannot count the ways...

There is no accounting for the reasons

There is no need to account for the reasonsThank you for your beautiful Garden

Thank you for the Grace that is always there

May you shed your Grace on me

That I will walk in humble service to Thee

 

We Are All Connected, SeamlesslyBy the Divine Fire burning through You

to meMay I follow the Light which burns in my Heart

May I shine with the Light which you Impart

May Thy Will Be DoneOn Earth as It Is in Heaven

May we All walk Together in the Light of Your LoveWhich falls with so much Grace from Above.

May our actions be RightMay we live in peace, filled with Thy

LightMay You forgive us our trespassesAs we forgive those who

trespass against us + + + OM, Saha Naavavatu

Saha Nau BhunaktuSaha Veeryam KaravaavahaiTejasvi NaavadheetamastuMaa

Vidvishaavahai

OM, shaantiH. shaantiH, shaantiH*May the Lord protect us together,May

he nourish us together.May we work together uniting our strength for

the good of humanity.May our learning be luminous and purposeful.May

we never hate one another

May There be Peace, Peace and Perfect Peace EternaLove, Lady Joyce

[Guest guest]

, "Lady Joyce" <ladyjoy@v...>

wrote:

> Dear Friends:

>

> I want to apologize for my persistent foray into the political

arena every time I try to post for peace :-) It has been a struggle

for me to accept the resistance with which I have often been received

when I "cross the line." Rather than really examine why some people

would react in such a fashion to my antiwar sentiments, I chose to

consider myself correct rather than allow myself to be corrected. In

other words, I chose to muddy the line rather than examine it as it

related to my own behvior.

>

> In my efforts to understand, I had to examine not only what I was

saying but why I was saying it the way that I did. After all, what

is wrong with reference to the legislators, I would ask myself.

Anxious to please myself, I would always find some reason to justify

what I had done. "How can you just stand by? How can you be so

immune to the despair of others? How can you be so cold?..." I

would go through the litany of justifications. If this is

detachment, then I want to remain attached. The lawyer in me

prevailed, always helping me find the loophole :-)

 

Namaste,

 

Look at my recent posts and then see who pulls the strings, and who

are only puppets. It is a replay of Cayce's Atlantean Sons of Belial

v the Sons of the Law of One.........ONS...Tony.