What’s my motive?
We all make decisions. Probably hundreds of them a day. Some of them happen at such a basic level, in the most primitive parts of our brains, that we don’t even recognize them as decisions. Others of them happen intuitively, guided by spirit in their highest form.
Most of them are intellectually or emotionally driven. Intellectual decisions are based on facts, analysis, logical reasoning, and probabilities, to name a few. They are choices we make conciously many times throughout the day. Necessary, practical decisions and choices.
Other decisions are emotional. We make decisions based on how we feel, or more accurately, how we think we feel.
The definition of assume and creating alternate realities
So much has been happening in my workday world lately that my blog has been getting little of my time. And candidly, since I’m a pretty new blogger, I’ve been frustrated by my slow progress on the finer points of creating a really well laid out, professional looking blog. I’ve been in the corporate world a long time and I am used to competency! (And help desks to just tell me the solution fast, please, thank you!)
I saw my good friend Dick Richards today, who is a wonderful blogger. Check out his blog at www.ongenius.com. I was complaining (whining actually, but let’s put some lipstick on the pig) about my frustration with not knowing how to do hot links and photos and having to actually read the online manual. After letting me run on a while, he said “why didn’t you call me?” I explained that I didn’t want to bother him, I should be able to figure this out on my own. He looked at me and said “Why don’t you let me be the judge of that? Call me, and if you are bothering me, I will tell you that.”
Sunday Inspirtuitions - Gratitude for Today
I received this video link for a wonderful gratitude video today.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Zl9puhwiyw
Today is truly a gift, and gratitude for everything we are, every breath we take, every moment we’ve been given, is divine love in action and will bring us to a state of joy and peace.
Sunday Inspirtuition - Thank you Father Terry!
I’ve just spent the weekend at a retreat led by a wonderful Catholic priest from Los Angeles, Father Terry Richey. If LA is the City of Angels, he certainly is one of them for me. While I am not Catholic, I did get my childhood education in a Catholic Montessori school. Perhaps that is part of the basis of my love of ritual and tradition. I remember the Latin Mass and being mesmerized by it. But I do not ever remember thinking of the priests as real people, human beings with feelings and experiences that I could relate to.
In my pursuit of my spiritual truth, especially recently, I have spent a great deal of time expanding my understanding of Christianity, and quite a bit of that work has been done in retreat under the guidance of Catholic priests. I have been surprised — in the most joyous and exciting sense of that word — by their vision, deep commitment, humor, love, insight, and most especially, their real humanity — mistakes, flaws, conflict, small victories, and feelings just like mine. I would never have imagined I could identify so completely with someone who on the surface lives a life so different than my own.
How often do we pass each other by because the surface — the exterior — we notice as we glance at our fellow human beings seems so different from ourselves we assume the soul which animates the body we see has nothing in common with our own? How many opportunities for true friendship and sharing are lost?
