Letting Go

Happiness

Happiness is a choice.  I choose this; happiness.  This choice is simple, and may on the surface, appear simple.  As in simpleton.  And I say, Try It!

Lord, hear this prayer of mine; that with this prayer of mine,

day by day,

Oh Lord I pray.

Lord make me an Instrument of they Peace.

Where there is hatred let me so Love

Where there is injury, pardon,

Where there is doubt, faith,

Where there is despair, hope,

Where there is darkness, light,

Where there is sadness, joy,

Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console,

To be understood as to understand

To be loved as to Love

For it's in giving, that we receive

It's in pardoning that we are pardoned,

And it's in dying, that we are born into Eternal Life.

Lord, hear this prayer of mine; that with this prayer of mine,

day by day,

Oh, Lord I pray.   St. Frances of Assisi

Meditation Notes:   Luna whining because Tobithecat has such a delicious breakfast that she cannot reach even though she stole some of it when LC was taking the other cats theirs.  That's how she knew it was delicious, not to mention that it smells really really really Delicious.

I settle in, finally.  Monkey Mind in full broadcast.  I put Goddess music on, softly.  Soon tears are flowing, I give in to the music.  You and I are One...

 

As we move into the selling of Mom's place, I am so sad.  

And I love you.

xoxoLC 

liquid red

So early it's still almost dark out.

I'm near the window with coffee,

and the usual early morning stuff

that passes for thought.

from "Happiness," by Raymond Carver

I wish politics bored me, rather than scare me to pieces.  I wish since fighting for democracy is such a call to arms, that there was some, democracy that is.  I wish I didn't feel so bad.  "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride," an old adage from MCP, about which by the way, I used to argue with her.  "WHY shouldn't beggars ride????"  

Red is my favorite color, when yellow or blue isn't.  Today I fell for what looks like flames in the red on the window sill, from the sunlight funneled through the small vase.  Often something red cheers me, or inspires me.  Today I say yes to cheerful and to inspiration.

Thank you.

xoxoLC