Cruising the Stratosphere

Sesame Street is an amazing childrens' show. I am astounded at the basic behavioral mores that they are actually able to pass along to our youngsters. Mores that, a lot of the time we 'adults' are Still learning!
     Today, for example, they are teaching the dangers of selfishness and overbearance as an analogical comparison to the behavior of viruses. Genius. A mental virus that takes over and affects behavior in a negative way. That are very successfully showing the limitations that this creates in human behavior! Excellent and so artfully done that it puts an entirely new spin on selfish, controlling behavior! Good Job SS writers!

 Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.

Facets we are on the same Diamond.
     Is it okay that we are not the Same Facet?
     Should we try to become the same as another Facet?
     How long does it take us to realize that we are perfect in our differences? As children we mimicked those around us, seeing others as role models laid out before us. As adults we make our own way having been conditioned by our past. With this conditioning are interwoven our own personal idiosyncratic traits that were imprinted upon our DNA that would be what they have become today regardless of whatever past they would've been strained through.
     So we are what we have become and no, God, or whatever name you want to give to that Force of forces, is not finished with us yet, nor ever will be as long as protons and neutrons are in motion around the nuclei of the atoms of All things. We are in constant motion as Beings within and without, just as is all in our Galaxy that we call Home.
     We are each singing the different notes of the chords of the same song----as it should be.
     "You are the Dancing Molecules of the Light and Music of God, The One of The All That Is" -Ova

 Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.

       Love has a mystical, transforming power. It takes the sting out of Life. While we are 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' love can come along and remind us that it doesn't have to be that way, if we are open to that possibility. Are we? Doesn't optimism open doors, while pessimism is afraid for what may be there if we do?
       It is such an easy thing to become so invested in the business of self protection and preservation that we become callous to the soft, subtle alchemical energy. In order for it to flow it has to be allowed to do so. It will not force it's way in. It is against it's nature.
       In human relationships we don't get that far without this quality of energy. When there is a problem we would be hard pressed to prove that it doesn't have to do with this issue in one or another of it's facets. Love necessitates a healthy respect for others (which means ourselves also) as well as the practice of self questioning and inquiry. I think that love engenders our own ability to question ourselves and thus to get a little closer to being able to slip our foot into the other person's slipper for just a bit. This is just long enough to make all the difference between an outcome of peace or one of continuing conflict. It's not about agreement , but rather respecting different perspectives.
       Love is not about agreement, but respect, flexibility, and compassion for the many views that make up our combined experience. Waiting for agreement or understanding on the part of others to reach a certain pitch is just playing the waiting game.

Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.

Sometimes the spirit in which we give something is not the spirit in which it is percieved or recieved. This can complicate matters when there is no real dialogue. Time and time again matters of human nature seem to come back to one basic human to human action that either happens or doesn't---actual communication--communion.
     When enacted with love and respect this simple activity can work Miracles on events and relationships. It is not always easy, as the 'real deal' requires respect, love, equality, care, and the dropping of the fascade that we so often wear out of self preservation. It can be difficult to do this without the ego tagging along. If the ego succeeds in being present in one of it's many chameleonized forms then our success may only be skin deep and short lived.
     Real communication starts in the Heart and works outward. It can be hard to get there, but Miracles can occur when we do.

 Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.

The needs that the Little Ones have are the Needs that We All Have. They have not been overlayed by conditioning to supress their expressions of need. They Teach a lot about the Nature of Human Beingness. These are things that we, as 'adults' have long since forgotten in order to survive in an 'adult world'. Their basic needs are sparkling on their surface. Ours are still there, however we are forced to use a more subtle strategy in fulfilling them---subtle, under current manipulations of the social strata. There is really no other way, it seems, as it would be too shocking and seemingly overt to put all this on the surface. We must have a working fascade of some kind just to get along from day to day.
    To love each other as tender hearted children seems to be a very good way to be if we can keep the truth in focus despite the illusion of appearances. The truth is still there lying beneath it all regardless of what we may say publicly. Everybody wants to be loved and accepted, nurtured and cared for, included and needed. The Golden Rule is Still Golden and Untarnished after all these years. The words of the apostle still ring True, "....Faith, Hope, and Love, but the Greatest of these is Love."
    We are all little grandchildren in the Eyes of the Great Spirit no matter how 'old' we consider ourselves. Do we have the Courage to Be as Ungarded, Open and Vulnerable as the Little Teachers running around at our feet Shining this Truth to us?

 Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.