Got Milk?

I read the book Diet for a New America when I was a teenager which was a lifetime ago. One statement in it stands out in my mind lately. Regarding humans drinking milk from animals. (Have you ever seen a grown man kneeling down in a pasture drinking milk from a cows utter? Well it is basically the same thing when you see a grown man drinking a glass of milk from a clean glass. )

I have never been able to drink a glass of cow milk but I sure can eat ice cream, cheese, yogurt, and my favorite butter without any philological trouble. However, the question continues to service about why we continue to use and drink so much milk, we call dairy? Do we actually need it or are we just programed to think so with our upbringing from Grandma and Grandpa farmers teaching us and the food pyramid drilling it in. I know, I know, calcium, calcium, calcium.

I am actually leaning toward the belief that we don't need it. I have read that leafy green veggies have more calcium than milk. I drink rice milk and actually love it!

So, I have decided to go non-dairy in my household. I have heard so many people tell me that when they went non-dairy their coughs went away and their skin rashes cleared up. I am very interested in that because my kids have both and I am so sick of it!

This will cause me to expand my knowledge about daily meals, snacks, treats and responses to my friends that want to know why.

When does the village step in?

I do some volunteer work with young women on a regular basis and I have this one 13 year old that stands out from the rest. She is adorable in the way that she looks like Shirley Temple with rosy round cheeks and bouncy hair, although hers is brown. But, she lacks the self confidence of that star, I suppose she has a rougher start. Her mother abandoned her and her two sisters and father a few years ago to an exotic country to start her life over with a new baby and all. She says she keeps in occasional contact with her mom via email. Yes, email is a wonderful thing that connects us over the miles but lady come on this is your first born.

I can only imagine what she feels inside and multiply it times 100. I have befriended her regardless of the emotional kicking and screaming going on inside her. She has managed to push all the other girls and leaders away but I see through her tough, I'm a freak stay away act! She is an adorable girl with the weight of an unpleasant unpredictable world on her back!

I have been noticing that her hair is in a pony tail each time I see her and it is getting further and further of her head, or her head is getting bigger and bigger. No, Ive seen it before, her hair is turning into one big dread lock! She has made comments to me that she does not want to be a girl, no wonder through her eyes.
Her father has been a foster child his whole life, recently abandoned with three girls to raise on his own. I am not sure he sees his oldest daughters hair and realized what she might be experiencing these days especially with glossy red eyes he always has.

Wow, the things some people experience on a daily basis!

So, I want to take this young girl in and clean her hair and give her love and attention and teach her some basic hygiene skills. Not that I am an expert like many women I know. It is amazing how some women can look so perfect every day! I could use a lesson from them!

However, I see this young girl similar to a neglected, malnourished puppy. How can I just sit back and let it happen. When is a good time to step in a be the village that helps raise the child? I only hope she will not resist what i have to share although, offence I will not take because she has reason to push me away and not trust me, I am a mother.

It is all you

I saw an obese person eating an ice cream cone yesterday and my first thoughts were, that is just wrong, that should not be allowed.
I saw a man getting his mail while I rode my bike past his house and I could tell he did not take good care of himself or his family by all the junk that lay around and how unkempt his appearance was. The house was really shabby and beyond repair with trash and beer cans and tobacco chew remnants splattered about. My thoughts went to the dark side assuming that he beats his wife in front of his children and creates a living hell for all in his path. This, I thought should not be allowed.

This disturbed me deep inside as it always does when I visit dark thoughts such as these.

My friend and I have read the book "A New Earth" and it always comes up in our conversation when we get together. If you read and connect with the book you will understand what I am saying, it changes your life.

I was asking the question, "How can we all be connected when there are some people in the world that I despise, and have no desire to understand. (the person that beats hits his wife and beautiful little children). The dark people I have heard about on the news or in books.

She reminded me that we are connected to them even though we may not recognise it. she asked, what part of you is like that man that beats his children? What part of you is the obese person that eats ice cream anyway? The things we cant stand in others are a reflection of what is bugging us about ourselves.

We cannot condemn anyone without going through exactly what they have gone through and then see what we would do in those exact shoes.
I did not get hit across the room for spilling my milk and have cigarettes put out on my arm and get fed a steady diet of soda and frozen pizza as a child. I did not have to watch my mother get beat to the edge of her life and be left alone with a monster of a father strung out on meth. I am not thrown into adulthood with gaping emotional scars that just keep getting infected, and having no clue how to heal them. Or am I?

No, I did not have those things happen to me but I do have some emotional scars. I have had dark thoughts before. We all have, no matter how much of a saint we think we are we all have had a dark thought here or there. This darkness is not our identity nor is it anything we want to identify with. But, on a level of spirit, which is what is our true self, (our true self is not this body we live in, it is what is inside this body) we are connected to the dark thoughts. We are all connected to each other. We all have a great effect on each other. When we forgive that man for beating his child and that obese person for eating an ice cream we are also forgiving ourselves. When we see ourselves in everything and everyone it is easier to forgive and turn to love and light.

Now the statement Jesus made makes more since, "I and the Father are one," and, "If I be lifted up, I lift up every man," Which means that If we are all connected the more I wake up and feel joy and happiness the more you will fill it to. When I forgive and accept others where they are right now, you will too. The more anyone feels the darkness the more darkness there will be. The more we feel light the more there will be.
So, the next time I see something I want to fix, change, or control because I can't stand it I will try to see myself in it and just accept it for what it is. And realize that it is a part of me. This is forgiveness.

Reprograming

I have decided that we are all brain washed or conditioned by our upbringing. We are taught things over and over until we get it weather it is through deliberate teachings or through life experiences. We create these tapes from our conditioning that get played over and over in our mind. These tapes help create our reality and the way we see and create our life. Some times and these tapes are creating a life we do not want over and over.

I am working on reprogramming my conditioned, or brain washed mind to one that is washed with good things that empower me to create the life I want instead of the life I created without awareness, some may call it my lot in life, or the cards I have been dealt. Here is one of the affirmations Ive chosen to help me with this.

I am the rich child of a loving Father. All that the Father has is mine to share and to experience. Divine Intelligence is now showing me how to claim my own God-given wealth, health, and happiness. Divine Intelligence is even now opening the way for my immediate blessings. I have faith that all that is mine by divine right now comes to me in rich abundance. My rich blessings do not interfere with anyone else’s good, since God’s rich substance is unlimited and everywhere for all to use. There is no delay! That which is not for my highest good now fades from me and I no longer desire it. My God-given desires are richly fulfilled now in God’s own wonderful way.

Oh Yeah!

We celebrated our one year anniversary this last weekend. The official date is April 6Th. That is the date we started our lives over being conscious instead of fumbling around in life unconscious. We have technically been married for 8 years in June but it has been one year of the kind of marriage we both dreamed about!

So our awesome friends that feel like family took our kids for the weekend. We almost didn't know what do to with ourselves but we quickly got the hang of it. Wow it was so fun and refreshing to do whatever we wanted whenever we wanted! We went skiing and surprisingly skied fresh powder in April. Then we got to enjoy a great band called Trolls Cottage that rocked! Then we went golfing then we stayed up and watched movies and ate yummy food. Then we got to sleep in as long as we wanted, which turned out to be 10am. That is crazy and unheard of in my life! My son wakes up at 6am daily that includes holidays and weekends.

It was so fun and rejuvenating for our marriage! We got to remember why we live together and have all these responsibilities together, oh yeah, because we love each other. That is just good medicine for the whole family!

Now I know why my friend and her husband always have that sweet twinkle in their eye for each other. They have been taking time alone together for a long time now!

Thanks to them we now know the secret too!!

Dang, I love the guy I married!

Peaceful Warrior

I just finished watching the Movie "Peaceful Warrior". I find it very interesting that I read the book this movie was based upon 17 years ago when i was 17 years old. And the funny thing is that I was inspired after reading the book way back then. However, I am just now truly getting the simple yet amazing lessons the book offered me 17 years ago. Wow I feel like I took the long road to get here but none the less it has been a journey worth taking. I am so happy to be on the path I am now. Perfect timing.

Eckhart Tolle

I just finished watching Eckhart Tolle and Oprah on chapter 2 of A New Earth. I am so overwhelmed with gratitude for this book and especially this class that Oprah is hosting. Oprah is the perfect person to bring this book into light because that is what she is all about, discovery and growth. I know that this information is coming at the perfect time to this earth I just had no idea it would come this way. I believe that this is one of the main purposes for the invention of the TV and all the other amazing technology we enjoy! We are truly connecting around the world to become enlightened to who we really are.
Deep inside myself I identify with every page in this book. It is as if I have been waiting for it! There has been a puzzle missing in me and I have just found it! I took a deep breath while watching and listening to the second show and just wanted to bawl because this info is finally coming to me! Thank you Eckhart for being present enough for this information to come through you! Thank you for listening to your inspiration and moving to the Northwest! I just want to hug you I am so grateful and excited for each moment I have. I am so grateful that this info is coming to me while my kids are still young. I have so many moments to enjoy with them and am so grateful that I am aware of the present moment and can be here with them!
There has been confusion in many areas of my life/mind and all I have to say about that is…Now I know.
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!