PRETEND....

 I was dropping my husband off to get his car fixed and I was listening to news on my phone.  It was so funny to listen to all the man made drama almost like little boys playing divide and concur.  There was so much talk of running out of money for this and that and then some news about testing a new missile or something.  I was thinking how funny that was to say you have no money but then spend thousands or more on testing a new missile.  Then they had all this talk about the border and razor wire and keeping people out and I thought, "stay out of our sandbox!".  Boys playing with their toys and not wanting those other kids to play, as if they are bullies not wanting to share.  In the real world it is not play and there are many issues, but they ARE man made issues.  They are immature issues of people who refuse to be nice.  We don't want to see that.  We want to think these are all issues out of our control as if we don't contribute, but we do.  Or rather, those who like to play the game contribute.  

I haven't watched or listened to the news in a long time.  Many of the people I talk to also ignore the news.  The fact of the matter is that we are now feeding off of the drama and making it larger.  In some ways it seems so much larger than it actually is.  The world is not all bad.  It's just that all the people who love drama are the ones with the microphone.  In reality, we all wake up and start a fresh new day with a lot of possibilities.  There are so many good people.  In fact there are probably so many more good people than bad people but they keep to themselves so you don't hear about their peaceful life.  They are not addicted to the microphone.

For a little over a year now, I've been on a quest to figure out enlightenment.  December 14th of 2022 I had a night when some switch flipped in my brain and woke me up to the illusion of the world we live in.  I've been soaking up any information I can find, since then.  I've been reading books and working with meditation and learning about energy and healing of the body.  I'm fascinated with the information.  It's not something everyone understand and I have had some eyes rolled in my direction.  I'm sure I have some people who think I'm a bit nuts and that's ok.  I actually wasn't sure I wanted to share what I'm learning.  It is not within the boundaries of what we learn in religion.  Religion likes to put God in a box and make Him easy to understand.  It also wants us to fear God.  I don't believe in fearing God.  I believe God deserves our respect, but I also believe God is absolute, pure, unconditional, love.  Fear is the opposite of love.  So that doesn't work for me.  God is CREATOR!  We are all little sparks of God that are given the gift of experiencing life on Earth.  You would think we would do a much better job of it.  

I was given an example of what life should be like by reminding me of playing with my best friend Gina when we were little.  We would be so excited to wake up and call each other to see if the other one could play.  Then we would go to her house, because we weren't allowed to play inside my house, and we would say, "pretend.....!".  Then we would play lava and Gina's little sister was the lava monster.  We would play house and she was the baby.  We would ride our bikes and play "Charlie's Angels" and pretend there was a  mystery we had to solve.  I have cassette tapes with us playing.  They are so funny to listen to.  We really had fun. It was one of the best times of my life.  

LIFE IN THIS WORLD IS JUST A REALLY ELABORATE GAME OF PRETEND!!!

So today... What will you pretend?

Hugs, Shannon

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