Tending The Garden

What if I want to grow fruits and veggies?? :)

Marriage Recommendations

Was the bible written to illustrate and record what was happening at the time and "Times, They are a Changin"?  Or was it written to tell me how to act in a literal way today?  For example, were women submissive to men, as illustrated in Corinthians, because it was an effort to keep peace and some control?  Or was it maybe just Paul's answer to a very specific question?  After all, Paul wrote this letter to correct what he saw as erroneous views in the Corinthian church.  Throughout the letter, Paul presents issues that are troubling the community in Corinth and offers ways to fix them. Paul states that this letter is not meant to make them feel ashamed but to "admonish" them as beloved children.

So, if my husband in 2012, tells me to obey him in the literal sense of this letter because "God says so", then what should I do about that??

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+7&version=NIV

You decide for yourself...

Unconditional Love

I read a sign on Facebook that said something like, "don't hang around those people that don't unconditionally love you."

My first thought was, "I am just starting to learn how to do that, so there go my friends."

My second thought was, "If I shut out those who don't unconditionally love me, then wouldn't I be practicing "conditional love"?

Gentle Breeze

As this woman grows in freedom and healing, she is freely given a friend of peace, calm and serenity.

This great friend is her inner strength.

Creator gives her a drink of the pure water springing from Mother Earth. 

Then bow of her spirit releases arrows of inner strength into Father Sky for others to gather.

~ Gentle Breeze

World Peace Diet

The Culture of Denial
Choosing to be blind to what we are actually doing when we shop for, prepare, and eat food, we blind ourselves not only to the horror and suffering we are instigating and eating , but also to the beauty of the world around us.  This acquired inability to actually see and appreciate the overwhelming loveliness of the earth allows us to ravage forests and oceans and systematically destroy the natural world.  Becoming insensitive to the pain we cause daily to defenseless animals, we also become insensitive to the beauty and luminosity of the creation that we oppress and from which we disconnect at every meal... p 9


Inheriting Cruelty
By confining and killing animals for food, we have brought physical violence into our bodies and minds and disturbed the physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual dimensions of our selves in deep and intractable ways.  Our meals require us to eat like predators and thus to see ourselves as such, cultivating and justifying predatory behaviors and institutions that are the antithesis of the inclusiveness and kindness that accompany spiritual growth.  Because cruelty is inescapable in confining, mutilating, and slaughtering animals for food, we have been forced from childhood to be distracted and inattentive to perpetrators of cruelty... p10

Quotes,  p 66
"The pain and suffering inflicted on children by the American diet is so brutal that if it were administered with a stick, parents would be put in jail."  ~ John McDougall, M.D.

"Human beings are not natural carnivores.  When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings who are natural herbivores". ~ William C. Roberts, M.D. and Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Cardiology.

Threatening Water To Make It Wet

In The Scripture of Golden Eternity Jack Kerouac says that to tell man to be pure because of the fear of punishment or the promise of reward is like threatening water to make it wet.

Resentments

Expectations are pre-meditated resentments.

~ Unknown

Destiny

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. 

~ Ghandi

Human Being

I am a human being, not a human doing.

I don't evaluate my self-worth and self-esteem with how well I do things in my life. I am not what I do. If I am what I do, then when I don't, I'm not.

Hummingbirds

From the back of a Papyrus greeting card:

Legends say that hummingbirds float free ot fime, carrying our hopes for love, joy and celebration.  Like a hummingbird, we aspire to hover and savor each moment as it passes, embrace all that life has to offer and to celebrate the joy of everday.  The hummingbird's delicate grace reminds us that life is rich, beauty is everywhere, every personal connection has meaning and that laughter is life's sweetest creation.