Say I was to sit down and over my lifetime record in writing all my experiences with GOD in great detail.I wrote about my dreams, visions answered prayers, hopes, fears and everyday insights and struggles.Now, years after my passing someone comes along and finds my book of wisdom, ah, they say.. what wonderful understanding of GOD she had. Let us now, therefore, go forth and teach these things to others.I guess this would be the "Donna" religion and would find followers. These followers would add to my teachings with their own experiences and thus the religion would grow.Now lets say that several hundred or thousand years pass. Many followers have added to the book.Over the course of time many sects have split off from the first group, changing ever slightly the original teachings with their own personal insights and experiences about God.Move forward in time a bit more. Major changes in politics and religion take place. A great leader decides to unite the people with one form of religious teaching. He decides upon "DONNA".He gets a bunch of religious folk to sort through all the teachings of "DONNA" and decides which ones should be included into and left out of the "official " book of light..Many people unite under these new teachings, claiming them to be the only true word of GOD> Based on understanding of the world and religious beliefs at the time; such as the world consisted only of what could be seen and felt, they wrote what they understood. They couldn't perceive of the world being millions of years old, the universe being so vast, creation evolving, etc.Just as my present day "book of truth" would consist of cell phones, internet, jet planes, yahoo answers, streaming video and audio, laptops, and other modern devicesetc. In a few thousand years, my book will not represent society in a like fashion to that present day.It would however represent my experiences, my understanding of GOD and society during the time in which I wrote it.Smiles,Donna
I talk with lots of people going through difficulties. Most are so wrapped up in their pain and fear that joy has a really hard time getting in.I think about a line about banjo pickers (players); they are said to be picking and grinning. (leave off the g for how it's really said here in the south.Too often we take ourselves, our lives and our situations way too personally and too serious.If you are going through a tough spot, find something that makes you smile to interact with.If you love music, then put some on and dance, sing and prance throughout your house.If you love to paint or draw, then release your inner child as you create an outer expression of how you feel.I know gardening frees my soul and releases my tension. I can work for hours pulling weeds, pruning all the while my barefeet are releasing the day's stress and worries into the Earth Mother where you uses them for fertilizer.Find you moments of joy, your minutes of bliss, several times throughout the day and watch in amazement as your life takes on a new energy of renewal and freedom.Love yourself well,Manyfeather
