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Good morning! More thoughts from Joyce Hifler, To Everything There Is A Season. Chapter 6.

Chapter heading: “A time to mourn, and a time to dance_____”

“Through April may bring you a shower or a flower____ a rainbow of every hue____ though the sun may touch your nose or toes____ happiness depends on you____ Love may come with a flair or with care____ or whistle a tune for your ear____ And whether the sound be a joy or annoy_____ depends upon how you hear____ Life waits for no one, nor hurries away____ It’s there for the choosing, you see. ____Whether April or May____ or what ever the day____ it’s that which you make it to be!”

“Life is sometimes interrupted in the way that a room is when wind thrusts open the shutters and fills it with air and a bit of new living. Some outside force must push its way into our lives, or we might go on forever living in musty attics and dark undeveloped minds.

We should always look on seemingly adverse situations as those which have come to awaken us and to bring into our lives a more meaningful and fuller living. It isn’t easy to give up those things that have become a part of us. We love the familiar touch, the familiar scents, the familiar sounds but these sometimes demand their freedom and though it leaves us bewildered, it also leaves a message. That message is that there is a new life, a new challenge, and if we are made if the right stuff, if we can find the grit and determination to follow a way that has been given to us and make it count for something, we have taken the handles to plow a new furrow.

We are never alone, for those whom we have loved are with us, urging us on to new and better things. Those whom we shall know, and love are waiting along the way to give direction and to stretch forth a hand to help us over the places that are unfamiliar.

Life demands that we step past self-pity and pick up the loose ends of our lives and begin the weaving process that will eventually, as quickly or as slowly as we choose to work, make a stronger fabric of life. A constant questioning, regret, and remorse over thought of failure are not a part____.” (There is more, but I will stop here.)

I was given this book when I was sixteen. I found that Joyce Hifler gave me the words which I would say if they had come my way. She includes thoughts about God in her book, (I stopped there, not because I do not believe in God but because I began to think about what I do believe.) I did not know how I felt about God or spirituality at sixteen and for some time later on. My thoughts have changed several times about a creator. But always I could not deny that I felt all of us have a connection to something greater than ourselves and this included being spiritual. I was sorting out what I thought spirituality was as well.

I liked what Joseph Cambell said. He had gone to all the great theologians in the world and asked the same question about where God existed. They all answered, “From within, that we are all a part of God as God is within us.” God I feel is a great consciousness, perhaps the universe is God? What rings true to me is nothing exists without having consciousness. That we are a part of a great consciousness. All living things are connected. I have a love for the whole world, it’s always been there. To exist all must become through sacred geometric shape.

Other thoughts: To know what is evil, bad, etc. is to always know the opposite of what is good and loving, etc. Knowing the difference is where we find the balance.

Best wishes! Pejj Nunes