Purposeful Growth

Please vote in the new poll box to your right. With less than ten votes for the last poll, it was unanimous…everyone felt that life was challenging, yet an adventure filled with joyful opportunities.

Musing…my spiritual path essentially began with Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God book published in the mid-90’s. I enjoyed and benefited from his early books, especially book one and Friendship with God. The last two books, however, The New Revelations and Tomorrow’s God, seem to lack the refreshing discovery characteristics of his earlier books. Perhaps that’s because I’m so immersed in spiritual writings from many authors. But it just seems to me that Neale is now pontificating. The writing seems condescending, as if he (Neale) knows all the answers, but the rest of us have no clue. Anyway, that’s my opinion.

Starting to think about our annual beach vacation. The ocean is a favorite spiritual place. This came to me a couple of days ago. Obviously, I’m not a poet, but…

Foaming green or crystal blue,
It brings the same to me.
Waves crash full upon my face,
Yet bring tranquility.

Mattie Stepanek, a 13 year old poet and peacemaker died this week. Mattie had a rare form of muscular dystrophy, yet it didn’t prevent him from publishing several best selling books of poetry. Nor did it prevent him from taking his peace beliefs on the Oprah and Larry King Live shows.

If you’ve heard the term, Indigo Children, but didn’t know what it meant, think Mattie Stepanek. Wise beyond their (human) years, many with disabilities, these children bring us a message of peace, love, and the interconnected human soul.

Mattie knew that peace is an attitude, that we’ll never achieve lasting peace as a result of waging war. Peace comes from waging peace. Peace comes from a human belief that peace is the only viable path. Mattie urged us to choose peace.

Here’s a young man in a wheelchair, with a breathing tube in his throat, and IV bags hanging at his side, yet with the love of life to write this poem:

Thank You, God,
Not just for life,
But for our journey through life.
Life is a miracle,
And a journey through life
Is so full of so many more miracles
If we travel with our Heartsongs.
Thank You, God,
For blessing me with the
Gift of Heartsongs,
So that I can enjoy my miracles.

“Google” Mattie Stepanek to find more about him and read his poems.

Now, what is it we were complaining about this morning?

Jerry