Envy Jealousy

 I heard just the other day a definition for those 2 words.

Jealousy is wanting/wishing to have something someone has.

Envy is hatred.  It is beyond just wishing.  It is calculated and there is a wish though.  The envious wish for their target to hate just as much as they do.  Misery loves company.

We might see things or qualities others have.  The healthy attitude is to hope we can achieve our own good, not to steal nor hate others for those things we lack.

Examples are the groundwork for the future.  

Decide to reach for one's own destiny.  

Be happy for others' success and strive to do likewise.

Keep Or Lose

 First there is get.  Acquire.  Be given.  All of by and for the Light.

Then one must keep aka maintain, defend.

If one doesn't do what's needed then one will lose what one has gained.

Nothing is gratis.  Responsibility is the price.

Establish a base.  And build.  

History.

Mystery/Secret

 My books are not strictly speaking mysteries.  There is a little bit here and there, just to flavor it.  I'll let readers figure it out.

There will be no secrets.  All will be revealed.

Kinda that way in life in general.

American Indians sometimes call the Creator Great Mystery.  There are things left unexplained.  

Some secrets are good like a surprise party.  Many are bad such as child rape.  

Secrets lurk and many are kept that way because they are evil/bad for people.  Some secrets are left hidden because they may actually serve Light and would be compromised if generally known.

Mysteries are things which have no exact explanation.  Some aspects are veiled, but the intent/will is done.  The results are in the open.  The proof is in the pudding.

Sometimes faith is enough.  Sometimes composition is important.

Our history and how it was lived are important to know.

How Great Mystery deals with us is important, but it is enough that it is done.

Can we handle the mystery and should it be secret?

Seek and ye shall find.

Improbable

 Burt Reynolds as God.

Yep in an X Files ep called Improbable.

It's about choices and destiny and being in the right or wrong place at the right or wrong time.

God confronts and reminds there is a choice.

At the end there is a street festival.  It's joyous and pans up.

Soon one sees the face of God mingled with the people and event.

Pretty nifty -s-.

Now, I'm reminded that every single person has a story.

We only see some of it and quite probably just a smidgen.

However, we interconnect, stories within stories.

With God, all things are probable.

Carry on.

91

 This must be my month for faith expression.  

I don't pressure people, nor claim anything but making a statement re what I think and feel in these tremulous time.

Seek and you will find.

''You will not fear the terror of night

Nor the arrow that flies by day

Nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness

Nor the plague that destroys at midday''

Psalm 91:5-6

Faith...

 Lotta talk re faith based religion.  I separate them.

The term religion indicates rigidity.  Sure, there has to be standards.  But, sometimes the baby gets tossed with the bath.  We needn't be chained.  Faith makes us free.  

Faith is also a way of life.  We live it.  Church is a platform from which to live, share, thrive.

I might do some more on this down the line.  It is ripe for attention in these tremulous times.  

Today, I'm only going to mention one aspect.  It is a crux, a hub of belief.

The darkside continually tries to isolat, make us feel alone, hopeless.

Here it is.  The unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit is  thinking one is unforgivable, w/o hope.

If  that gets planted, despair becomes the fetid fertilizer to spread and entrench it.

It may lead to rejection of God's gift.  The fallen willfully turned away.  People can be tricked into doing the same.

Don't fall for it.

Jesus offers forgiveness.

Embrace it.

Have faith.

Blind.

 An interpretation of the story in Jon was illustrated in a movie.  My memory is faulty.  Might have been Jesus of Nazareth.  Not sure.  There goes the mems as I age lol.

I want to comment on that filmic interp.  Forgive me if I misinterpret Scripture.  It is the symbolism that brings my comment.

A man blind from birth was begging.  Now back then there was no Goodwill nor any other program to overcome handicaps.  Begging was the only recourse.  

Jesus spat on dirt, made mud and put it on the man's eyes.  He was told to was it off at Siloam pool.  The man could then see.

Of course the Pharissees tried to say it was some kind of flim flam usw.

Nonetheless the man was blind then could see.

Now in the film, He thrashed about and seemed in pain as Jesus applied the mud, as though the mud stung him.  His fear was palpable even as he washed.

But then he could see and was free to pursue life. 

He overcame the fear and followed Jesus.

Perhaps he was first set in his ways, was used to blindness.  Then his world was rocked.  It was painful a bit to begin with, then he gained courage.

Jesus said, ''For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind can see and those who see will become blind.''

We lie to ourselves.  In the temporal world on into the spirit world, It's so.  Yet good and evil wend their ways through all aspects of our lives.

We are in a great battle in the war between good and evil.  We choose to follow a lie and ignore it or we seek to see and do something.

So it was in Jesus' time on down to the US founding and onto now.  And yonder to the future.  

Work through the pain, see Truth/Freedom and go forth into the fray.

Then we turn a 'blind eye' to the shiny baubles that evil dangles, all the lies and false promises.

Freedom is God's gift.

Tyranny is the darkside's.  

Walk Free.