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11-1-01
I have been feeling a lot better the last couple of weeks. Started daily
walks again. Guardian Angels watching over me.
We have stored our winter supply of red and sweet potatoes, carrots, onions,
squash and boxes of apples in the back corner of the barn and have four
cords of wood under the porch at the end of the house, to keep us warm
all winter long. It's just nice to have the vegetables on hand and they
cost about one quarter now at the local farmers stands as they do later
on in the winter at the stores.
We put the studded tires on the cars next week, good for traction on icy
roads, and put our emergency bags containing extra winter clothes, food
and candles in the back seat, which we carry in the cars all winter, in
case we are stranded in a snow storm.
The cabin is winterized with plastic sheeting over little used doors and
windows and burning light bulbs have been placed in the pump house and
other out buildings to keep them from freezing. We are ready for winter---more
or less---I don't like the winter cold much any more.
In the following excerpt from,The Essene Gospel
of Peace Vol. I, Jesus, discusses the seekers
relationship with his natural family and his spiritual family:
"And your true brothers are all those who do the will of your Heavenly
Father and your Earthly Mother, and not your brothers of blood. I tell
you truly, that your true brothers in the will of the Heavenly Father
and of the Earthly mother will love you a thousand times more than your
brothers by blood."
"For since the days of Cain and Abel, when brothers of blood transgressed
the will of God, there is no true brotherhood by blood. And brothers do
unto brothers as do strangers. Therefore, I say to you, love your true
brothers in the will of God a thousand times more than your brothers by
blood."
"It is by love that the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother and
the Son of Man become one."
11-2-01
I met a man the other day that said his ministry was the highway. Yes,
he said, people think I'm crazy, I put out water jugs along the highway
over the mountain pass. It helps people you know. How so?
Well, peoples cars overheat on that long upgrade, and when they do, there's
water there to cool there cars down and refill their radiators. Sounds
like a good idea to me! Yes, it is, and it helps a lot of people,
but its crazy, doesn't make me a dime.
Why do you do it then? Helps people, ain't no other reason,
it just helps people and if we all did alittle somethin to help other
people this world would be a heck of a lot better place to live than it
is today. I agree with you there. Well, it ain't really
no big deal. I've been putting out water jugs along that highway now for
ten years, ten years of nuttyness, helping other people, for no gain.
Well, that's real good.
And you know, I never kept tract of how many jugs I was puttin out, I
figgered maybe four or five hundred a year. That's quite a few.
Well, yes it is, but this year I kept a close count, and between May 1st
and October 15th I put out 1550 gallons of water. Wow, that's
a lot of water jugs and a lot of work.
Naw, not so much work, maybe about six hours a week and you know it's
a collaborative venture. I get the gallon jugs from a local recycling
plant, you know they're crazy too, and the water from a gas station at
the bottom of the hill. Well, that's a help. Yes it is,
they have been real good to me, and they think what I'm doing is a pretty
good idea and you know some of the truckers think so too, because occasionally
one of them gives me a pretty good honk.
Maybe they use your water. Maybe they do, I don't know
who uses my water, and it don't matter, ain't no rules to this game: use
the water to cool your car off, wash your face, wash your clothes, wash
your car, make some tea, ain't no rules, take the jugs, leave the jugs,
(that's nice because I can use them again) take one jug or take ten, it
just don't matter.
That seems like a good attitude to have. Yes well, you
see, I do my part settin the jugs out, they do their part using them when
they need them. Then we're even. What about thanks? No
thanks needed, I know it helps folks, that's all the thanks I need. And
occasionally, two or three times over the years, someone leaves a quarter
in an empty jug, that gives me a good chuckle, because if they had to
call a wrecker it would cost them fifty dollars just to hook up to their
car.
I did get a million dollar thank you note one time in crayon from a little
nine year old girl. She and her family were going on vacation when their
old car overheated and they used a couple of jugs of water to cool their
car off. She wrote the note on a piece of paper, folded it and left it
under one of the full water jugs, it said, "God bless the person
that put this water here." And then she told me about her family
going on vacation. Pretty nice. Yep, pretty nice.
11-4-01
I awoke early this morning, long before sunrise. I stayed in bed awhile
and as I lay there dozing and my inner Voice spoke to me and gave me a
beautiful analogy of the seekers path. The Voice told me that an impure
body was like a swamp in a dark overgrown valley and an impure mind was
like very stormy weather with sleet and hail and hurricane winds and tornadoes
and that the goal was a sunny mountain meadow covered with wild flowers
high above.
As the seeker climbs from the swamp through the tangles of brush purifying
his body by fasting and diet, he must also continually purify his mind
with love, forgiveness, affirmations and prayer. He must 're-condition'
his mind from the world view that he is an dark ugly sinner that deserves
punishment to the Souls reality that he is a perfect Being and one with
God.
He must shut out all the clutter and insanity of the world and mentally
work to 're-condition' his mind until he not only thinks he is one with
God, but knows in his heart that he is one with God. What good does it
do to reach the meadow if the weather makes it unlivable with blowing
winds with sleet and hail and tornadoes tearing up the earth.
When the seeker finally reaches the meadow of his Soul strewn with wildflowers
dancing in God's spiritual light he must be ready to accept what he is
in reality... the Christ. The sun's light may be to bright to continually
stay in at first, and he may have to seek the shade of the surrounding
trees from time to time, but he must continue on until he can stand the
full light of the sun and God's spiritual light.
And when he can live in the light continually pure in body and mind, the
sun will stand still in the eternal here and now and the illusion of duality
will be at an end and the world will be transformed.
Man alone creates
The illusion of sin.
and
Man alone can
Forgive that sin.
and
Man alone can
Free the mind.
and
Man alone can
Unite with God.
11-5-01
The Human Condition:
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11-14-01
Again, the way stop the continual repetitious loop of mental clutter in
your mind is not to fight it, but rather, to replace it, with the truth:
affirmations, prayer, praise, singing psalms or spiritual songs, meditating
on spiritual matters or listening to the your inner Voice.The idea is
to consciously keep the mind busy so that unwanted clutter cannot enter
the thought stream. Every time you say or sing, "I AM that I AM"
or "I AM ONE with God" or pray, or think of spiritual things,
you raise the vibrations and consciousness of the mind and soon the mental
clutter will disappear.
11-15-01
For the past few days I have been obsessed with the idea that a good friend
of mine was not acting very friendly and didn't care about me any more.
This morning my inner Voice spoke a few words to me, explaining my friends
situation, and my mind was immediately free. I not only could hear the
words in my mind but I could literally feel the truth in them. A soothing
feeling of relief.
My inner Voice said something like this: "Your friend still likes
you, he just doesn't have time for you right now. He's starting a new
business, and is worried about money and is worried about failing. When
he has more time and energy, he will act like your good friend again."
Seeing the situation with my friend this way, completely relieved my mind.
11-16-01
A seeker of truth needs to create an island of sanity for themselves and
their families. A retreat from the ordinary world which is safe and secure
physically, mentally and spiritually. An island which is surrounded by
a circle of spiritual light, which they renew daily, and where the time
is always the present, the only religion is the truth, and the only law
is God's Law and Mother Nature's wish. A place where the insanity of the
world is not allowed to enter; deep in the woods or high in the mountains.
Give thanks and praise to your Guardian Angels for watching
over you. Your Guardian Angels protect you unceasingly from the evils
both in the seen and unseen worlds. Your Guardian Angels are the ones
that arrange the seemingly coincidental happenings that saved you from
harm. I sincerely thank my Guardian Angels for all the times that they
have helped me and my family.
11-18-01
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary's first definition of "fate"
reads as follows: "What is ordained by the Gods."
Fate is an interesting thing. One man walking along a mountain path may
look down and see his shoe lace is untied, and bend over to tie it, and
a big rock rolls down the hill just where he would have been if he had
kept walking. Another man may stop to tie his shoe lace and a rock rolls
down and hits him, because he stopped. Fate? Guardian Angels?
Fate or chance is something that our Guardian Angels help us to deal with.
They see future events in someone's life coming toward them through space
and can predict or foretell the how, when, and where of the event. This
is how many prophets make their predictions. Sometimes these events can
be deflected or altered by prayer or other means. I don't know if Guardian
Angels are allowed to alter events for a person but I do know they can
warn them.
Three or four years ago, I had a dream vision of driving around a sharp
corner and rear-ending another car. The dream was so real and clear that
I knew there was a message in it for me from my Guardian Angels. Immediately
I began to be very careful in my driving, but in the next couple of months
I had several near misses, where I nearly ran into the back of another
vehicle.
Once, I came to, staring at the end of a bunch of logs on a logging truck
and was lucky to recover in time to avoid a deadly collision. I don't
know how that happened, it seemed like I was asleep at the wheel, and
all of a sudden I became aware of the logs a few feet in front of the
car. I swerved around the truck just missing the ends of the logs, a very
near miss. My Guardian Angels
brought me back to awareness in time to save my life.
During this time I tapped a women's rear bumper in a traffic jam. She
got out of her car and glared at me, I shrugged an apology, but she found
nothing wrong with her car and went on.
Then I ran into another women's car at a stop sign. The road coming into
the stop sign entered the other road at such a severe angle that you had
to look back over your shoulder to see if any traffic was coming. The
woman in front of me pulled out of the stop and immediately stopped dead
in the lane.
I made the stop and was looking over my shoulder as I pulled out and ran
smack into the back of her car. I was doing about ten miles an hour or
less. The woman acted as if she mortally injured, but luckily a county
sheriff deputy was two cars behind me and saw the accident and told the
woman to forget the acting, because she couldn't possible be hurt.
She was very indignant and abusive to the officer and he almost ended
up taking her to jail. My insurance company paid for a new bumper for
her old car because I had scratched the old one.
The third event happened one night when Juanita I were coming home from
town and we were passing the site of an accident in the opposite lanes
of the highway. We had slowed way down and a man on a motorcycle looking
at the accident ran into the back of our car.
He said that he saw our car to late, and dumped his bike and slid into
our bumper. He was skinned up a bit but not severely injured. Our car
was just slightly damaged but his bike was totaled. He had been drinking
and the police officer took him to jail.
Those three very small accidents seem to have ended my problem with hitting
another vehicle from the rear. I heartily thank my Guardian Angels for
their warning vision and their help in keeping my accidents small. I I'm
very thankful that no one was seriously injured. I am sure that Juanita's
and my Guardian Angels intervened to keep the young man on the motorcycle
from being seriously hurt. It is to bad that most people are unaware of
all the help and protection they receive from their Guardian Angels.
11-24-01
Two padlocks froze up (not from cold) today, one on the driveway gate
and the other on the toolbox in Juanita's car. Interesting coincidence.
I couldn't free up the gate lock with penetrating oil and had to hacksaw
through the chain. The door lock on the refrigerator failed the next day.
11-25-01
The past week I haven't written anything because I have been editing the
journals for publication and working about four hours a day on the index
to finish it up. May your Guardian Angels watch over and protect you.
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