God is so good and I don't regret a single moment of living or learning how to love beyond my means.
Stay in Gratitude

Resolution in Senate Apologizes for Slavery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwOBC5bG08k&NR=1

I listened and was touched in my heart. I am touched at the effort made to right an un-rightable wrong.

I read over some of the reactions to the resolution and it hurts me to see how deeply the pain and reaction of hatred runs through so many people. For some, NOTHING will ever be enough. NOTHING! I concede that it is not a "perfect" statement.

Republicans, however, were supportive of the resolution. "It doesn't fix everything, but it does go a long way toward acknowledgment and moving us on to the next steps to building a more perfect union, doing the things that Martin Luther King would talk about, like building a colorblind society," said Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) :The Washington Post

With all of the disparities and wounds that have been inflicted, the disease that has been caused and the rippling effects that have ensued, I am touched by the humility and presence of spirit that it takes to make such a statement by the individuals and the collective of authors, implementers and supporters of the effort; including those who over many, many, many years, whose names are yet unknown, tried and failed to make such a thing happen. Their victory has finally come. It is a single and yet priceless victory in the long journey of things that still need to happen over our lifetimes.

Careful not to allow a reaction stemming from deep seeded anger and distrust to keep my heart, mind and spirit closed to healing, I am grateful, and I thank God to witness this.

Today's Revelation

"To let God rebuild me after I let you dismantle me takes humility, courage and faith, but most of all a true learning of love. Stay In Gratitude!"

Message for Freind, and Me

for so long as i choose to lay still and allow pain to have its way with me, it persists..the powerful never simply relinquish reign...a more powerful force must exert itself and usurp that power... I choose to let that power take the form of love, motion, family, adventure, friendship, fun, joy, worship, dance, music, reading, writing...there are soo many possibilities my love. and i love you

Endeavor

in my own skin
in my own eyes
in my own mind
in my own spirit
in a room all alone with no one around
listening to the sound of my own breath
THIS IS WHERE I
ENDEAVOR
TO BE MOST ACCEPTED

"Endeavor" I choose this word with specificity. For I 've come to learn through experience that liberation is an endeavor. An endeavor to strip myself of the mounting layers of conditions piling up, compressing and encrusting upon my being.

Stay in Gratitude

The more I speak the words, the more I love their sound, the more I know their worth, the more I feel their truth...STAY IN GRATITUDE!

The One Loves His Satellites

“Send me, I’ll go”

When called upon
To traverse
The only completion

The One
Loves His satellites

Assignment
Little black girl
Sister daughter qween
Round brown woman
Wife lover guide
Mother teacher friend

The One
Loves His satellites

Bored maybe?
Convicted by His
Scientific side?
Perhaps persuaded by
The pull of infinite knowledge
To further explore
Himself
He devised

The Satellite Program

Assignment
Observer collector reporter
Singer dancer prayer
Lover loser betrayer
Thinker giver taker
Creator displayer imitator

Assignment
Pull the text from the tears
Decelerate the mania
Spell it out with poems
Linger in the hues of joy
Dismantle time with singing

Assignment
Bring it all
Back

The One
Loves His satellites

“I’m yours, I will return”




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What's Love Got To Do With the Price of Blood in Afghanistan

I saw the headline as I opened my Yahoo account the other morning and breezed right past it.

"Major military operation underway in Afghanistan."

Then later as I got dressed in front of the television, I caught a glimpse of an interview with a young looking Captain Somebody explaining briefly what the mission was all about. He was dressed in fatigues, headgear and protective eyewear and was clutching across his chest a massive gun of some sort. He appeared to be crouched, as if for cover, behind a large rock as he spoke, quite calmly (oddly enough) into the camera and micrphone. I remember thinking, "Where exactly is this guy?"

In hindsight, I recall feeling a slight pause when I first read the headline...it was more like a fleeting vision. I have a cousin in the Army and I think I pictured him in one of those scenes of combat we often see on the news. But it was just a flash and I kept on to my inbox.

I purposefully do not watch the news and rarely read the newspaper. I have been told that makes me apathetic, grossly uninformed, ignorant, and unprepared by several people who keep up with the current events of the day as their way of being relevent and...well, prepared, I guess.

I do often feel displaced when the flame of debate flares at dinner parties or spoken word venues (not so much) and I can't put the faces to the names of the major players besides Michelle and Obama, or connect the dots between the strategic socio-political chess moves made across the global board.

When I chime in with my we-are-the-world-esian p.o.v. ramblings about love flowing out from within our own hearts and homes, progressively solving our conflicts into peace; I routinely get the obligatory goo-goo eyed thoughtful pause, with a regurgitated restatement of MY statement (as to indicate a loose interpretation of agreement) and a standard brush off via attention to pressing business in another room, forgotten emergency phone calls to be made and overdue calls of the wild (if you get my drift...*flush*.)

I mean, who really wants to discuss love saving the world?

Rooted in a reality where war can be waged elswhere as I watch its sanitized edited-for-t.v. trailer and blog or maybe twit about it with profundity in 140 characters or less; what's love got to do with the price of blood in Afghanistan?

My apathy is actually a tunnel vision that you will probably hear repeated in my blogs over and over again. I want to learn love as the sprituoscientific phenomenon it is! I want to continue to employ the miraculous nature of love to transform my life, the lives of those around me and the lives touched by those around me and so on...and so on...and so on... This is proving to be a lifelong string of experiments whose fruits manifest in batches and crops ranging from subtle to profound, without uniformity of pattern, in incriments of time ranging from nanoseconds to eternity.

The implications of lovelearning are not sufficiently measurable with impirical intruments or logical thought processes and are certainly not reported around the clock on CNN. So when I talk of learning how to love myself and my family and friends more, there initally may seem to be no correlation to what is happening in wartorn Afghanistan, or Iraq, Iran, or a hundred other countries (or cities right here in the US) that I could list.

But, personally I have to believe that without knowing/learning/addressing/changing/sharing me and my circumstances; which are in fact the shared circumstances of those around me, I can't change what happens on foreign soil. By me, I mean each and every one of us American, African, European, Asian...The President... you get my drift.

I'm reading a book; "The Hidden Messages In Water" by Masaru Emoto (http://www.beyondword.com/) in which Emoto speaks about his water research. In the chapter entitled "The World Will Change in But a Moment" he shares a wisdom that says, "Our emotions and feelings have an effect on the world moment by moment. If you send out words and images of creativity, then you will be contributing to the creation of a beautiful world. However, emitting messages of destruction, you contribute to the destruction of the universe. If you become aware of this, you will no longer be able to speak words of anger to those around you, or blame others for your own mistakes and weaknesses. You have the capacity to change the world within a moment. All you must do is make a simple choice. Are you going to choose a world of love and gratitude, or a tortured world filled with discontent and improverishment?"

What do we contribute with the constant debating and fingerpointing, albeit in the name of liberty? We wonder why the wars never cease.

According to Emoto's research, he "...found an unusually sharp increase in the values of vibrations produced by mercury, lead, aluminum, and other substances harmful to the human body" IN TOKYO on the day of the invasion of Iraq at the onse of the Gulf War. What does this imply to you? I am really interested to know!

We so easily lose track of the underlying relationship of our emotions, attitudes and actions from space to space, and moment to moment as we look upon the conditions of our world. So often we are so focused on what's happening "over there", all the while missing the point "right here" oblvious to how strongly the two are linked.

Let us surrender our lives to the Creating Force, yeild our hearts to one another, seed our relationships unselfishly, commit to our marriages, share our personhood with our children in earnest, and advertise this as the age-old, new fangle culture fad (call it Foreign Policy) that won't die but multiply and will transcend languages, infiltrate customs and dissolve borders that keep each other out as opposed to welcoming one another in.

And now that I've blogged about it, it's time for me to call my kids, hug my Dad, embrace my friends, love myself speak some joy and pay the cost of prayer for every drop of blood that has been and will be spilled in Afghanistan today.

Stay in Gratitude.