Muscatine

The world



is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums.
It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.

Peace

Letting go............



Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all -- young and old, rich and poor, good and evil -- the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.
Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current was what each had learned from birth.

But one creature said at last, ''I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.''

The other creatures laughed and said, ''Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed against the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!''

But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.

Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.

And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, ''See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the messiah, come to save us all!''

And the one carried in the current said, ''I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.''

But they cried the more, ''Savior!'' all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a savior.

-- from Illusions by Richard Bach

If the Savior was your guest

We sang a song in Church, a few years ago. ''If The Savior Stood Beside You.'' The question was, ''Would I do/say the things I do?'' Those very words from that beautiful song has stayed with many of us that had the priveldge to sing it.
If He were a physical guest in my home, how would I dress, How would I act, what words would I choose? What would I do/say as I sat down at the computer & typed? I haven't been the best example, by any means. I have so much to learn. I can try? Compassion for each other is what is asked, No more, no less.
We can say that we have been ''saved'', we can read the scriptures and go to church on Sunday to learn. If we don't internalize what we have been taught, it does no good. Reading the posts from the last few days, I feel the need to ponder for myself...If The Savior Stood Beside Me...how would I act & react to the other souls I meet?

Tlou



Very true. The way we act would be very different in the company of our creater. Kind of sad I guess.

Anyway the Book ''Illusions'' is very easy read and tries to show things in bit of a different light. I don't know if I agree with it all, but found it entertaining. One of the more interesting quotes in the book is when the Messiah was asked if he was the son of God. He replied ''are we all not the sons God?''.


Peace