Babel

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  • Points to Ponder

    One day in 1991 my Highest-Self gave me a series of lessons and Truths which really didn’t mean much to me at the time. Today I saw them again and had many revelations. Here they are for you to ponder too. Enjoy!

    • Remember: Discipline – monitor your thoughts, words, emotions and actions
    • Harmony in your life is a gauge of the effectiveness of your work
    • If things are not harmonous or working, look to your thoughts, words, emotions and actions
    • Put nothing outside of yourself. You create your reality totally
    • Forget all you have learned in this life
    • Strive to be the best you can be – for you
    • Know thyself – be who you are rather than who others perceive you to be or what they tell you to be
    • Have Faith – know what you think will affect your life
    • Words can heal or harm; create or destroy
    • Everything (thoughts, words, emotions, places, songs, etc.) has a vibration. It will either resonate to harmony or discord within you. That which is discordant move away from or change your perception of it
    • All in life is learned perception – change your mind, change your perception. Coming to a new level of understanding, changes your perception
    • There is nothing wrong or bad in the Universe – only your perception of it. What appears bad to someone may be a wonderful blessing to another
    • Only you can be responsible for you – take charge of your life
    • Your biggest opportunity/challenge, is your soul’s loving way of getting you to change your mind. It’s like a joke. How loving or peaceful or joyfilled did you think you were – the challenge is humbling, the more pompus your position the bigger the challenge, but it is only perceived. The True challenge is to be fully who you are, in all situations, 100% of the time
    • Honor others by listening and responding when asked. Everyone has their own level of reality and understanding, offer yours only when asked, otherwise it may be an intrusion
    • Be loving and compassionate in all things – simply by allowing the fullness of Love and Compassion (which you Truly are) to flow through you

    ~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

  • Befuddled by Burgeoning Bag Bedlam

    I’ve got burgeoning bags, sacks, pokes. Plastic or paper I keep ’em both. Never know when you might need one. Used to store the plastic ones inside the paper, ’til I bought one of those pretty cloth bag dispensers at the crafts fair last year. What a great idea, organized storage and easy access too! But the bags multiply faster than I can use them. So now it’s buried under piles of bags; can’t even see a corner of it. Wonder to myself “Why’d I buy that thing? What was I thinking?”

    The other day, I brought a load of groceries home. Put ’em away. Gathered up all the bags, opened the closet door and bags started jumping out. Picked ’em up, wad ’em into a tight ball, opened the door, shoved, then closed it fast. I swear, these befuddling bags are like bunnies doing some strange mating ritual night and day… ever burgeoning. Seems like they’re having a party in there. Creating bedlam. Pushin’ on the door, trying to get out and find another place to multiply. I’m Befuddled by Burgeoning Bag Bedlam.

    My roommate watching this drama unfold, pulls out her collection of canvas totes, mesh and string shopping bags . And says to me, “Ever considered totes?” I reply, “Totes?” Looking over the collection of bags in her hands I say, “Canvas totes? I’m not planning a trip, just buying groceries. I use paper or plastic.” She opens the closet door and lots of plastic shopping bags tumble down on her head and she says, “Let’s recycle these.” I reply, “I might need ’em for garbage or storage or something.” She says, ‘Let’s keep some and recycle the rest.” I think to myself, “I’ve got a closet full. A few is all I need. But, but, but… I might need ’em for something. You just never know. They come in handy.” I’ve got a duolouge going on in my head. Those befuddling bags are using mind control. Beaming me, ‘Keep them all. You’ll need them’. Why else would I think I have to keep a closet full of bags? Uncomfortably I sigh and give an affirmative nod.

    We gather them up and head to the recycling center. On the way, we notice thousands of plastic bags strewn everywhere… along the road side, in the median, even in the forest on both sides of the road. Divide and conquer. I can hear them whispering, ‘Resistance is futile’, like the Borg, and we are a lesser life-form. I say, “The bags are multiplying under our noses, overtaking the world.” My roommate says, “If we recycle or stop using them altogether, there won’t be any to take over.” I reply, “You mean, prove our superior intelligence.” Laughing she says, “Exactly.”

    On our way home we stopped at the grocery store for a few things. When we pulled out our canvas totes the cashier deducted $.05 for each plastic bag we didn’t use. Wow! How cool is that! Save the environment and a bit of cash too.

    EPIPHANY: Stop the plastic invasion, use canvas totes and save a few cents.

    Another problem solved. Now all I have to do is figure out what to do with that pretty cloth bag dispenser.

    ~Bonnee Klein Gilligan