GRID & BARE IT

A new dose of HOPE is being dispersed; can you feel it? I know it looks gloomy ‘out there’ and inside. Gets our attention, huh! I guess that’s what it takes after so many decades, nay centuries of slow and steady dis-empowerment. Each one of us, and not just us humans, are born from an ignited spark of DNA so, we all, everyone of us  has a unique gift. Just like our thumbprint is unique. Given to each of us, if left to our own devices, is an essence to create. I love speaking to folks who tell me they go to sleep at night and wake up each day doing essentially what they love to do. Makes a huge difference!

Well, this week, when I heard the news of the New Grid that will be replacing America’s inefficient one, the concept of investing in ourselves, well, it changes the focus; from one of invasion and destruction. Yes, the old guard has it’s ways and the middle eastern pipeline is it’s gold rush. Especially since it’s countdown time for this precious resource that lubricates our tectonic plates. Did you know that the first trees ever on Earth fell into our oceans to begin Nature’s process of recycling an old pine tree, that ultimately landed at the bottom of the sea and decomposed into gorgeous goo? Of course, we all love the scent of pine. It’s oil is so healing.

Back to the New Grid. Sounds like a solid idea providing jobs and good intention toward moving forward, away from a tired, even exhausting worthless way of being. Notice how it makes you feel when the incessant talk of war pours through our tubes and radios. Keeps you right where ‘they’ want you. Now, isn’t it rather elevating and sort of stunning to think of an electrical makeover. No, really. Now when you close your eyes at night to rest your weary self and awake to a new day, a new thought occurs to you; a realization that from coast to coast our wiring is also being rejuvenated. Our breathing will improve because we will be collectively changing our thoughts and when our thoughts change , our cells change AND our immune system reacts in a more circulatory way providing us with new energy. How about that!

The era of the walking dead who have been numbed by such things as inhumane factory farming, genetically altered food crops for our consumption and the incessant flow of numbing drugs that are spoon fed to us on a daily basis will be on decline. As we wake up to new HOPE, we wake up to new life.

Another thing: the whole idea of being tempted to test the poison waters of despair by keeping one foot in the old familiar ways and the other foot in this new philosophy of Hopefulness will be a constant test. This is where your faith comes in to look deep inside yourself and decide which way you want to go. My theory is, while deciding, two things can happen: One is falling into a comfortable chaotic state of confusion. Well, that’s paralyzing. Two, and my preference is to surrender yourself to the very extremely uncomfortable zone of, dare I say, oh no, I can’t say it-VOID

The Void is a scary place to be. Very lonely it seems and dark. It’s what I call the “healing space”. Once you enter there’s only one way out- COURAGE. Courage to see clearly who you are and what you love starting with YOU!

Oh, and I forgot to mention Freedom.

Isn’t that why we’re all here?

Isn’t this our mission in life?

Isn’t it what we all dream of?

For Heaven’s sake, Grid and Bare It!!!