Paws to Heal

Well, its half way through another year as we welcome Winter Solstice here Downunder.

See my previous blog for why your cats may be deranged at this time.

The rain has just started in a very late Autumn break and the trees and plants are still confused that their leaves have only just begun to fall.

It seems to me and others I have spoken to that our calendar is a full month out of whack which may be something that inevitably occurs over many hundreds of years following a mathematical calculation rather than living solely by observing and living by the natural laws. Then again there has been much to interfere with the natural laws over this time which also accounts for what many term climate change.

It has been well over a century now that man rose and retired with the sun as we increasingly adapt to artificial lives where most of us now don’t even see the dark at all unless we go camping or seek the wild. The other beings with whom we share our planet have had to adapt to our behaviour and tolerate our interferences in much the same way as we have tolerated living with teenage children who stay up all night and behave unpredictably.

 

Over many generations we have also become further removed from our connection to our Mother Nature who tolerates our rebellious behaviour and rarely admonishes.

These blog postings are to encourage readers to reflect on the good things we share universally and to celebrate the things that cannot be corrupted by politics or commercialism. We can still appreciate every new dawn, sunset, rainshower, tree and forest without owing anybody anything other than gratitude. There is also a reason gratis means free of charge and why gratitude has no price.

The beauty and sustenance we receive from Mother Nature can unite us and remind us to also appreciate the best of each other, looking past the things that seek to divide us.

Division will reign supreme if we allow the forces of comparison, contempt, competition, criticism, commercialism, consumerism, computerisation, coercion, communism and perhaps capitalism (too many bad c words especially covid) to become our reality.

In this oversimplification it is also apparent or abundantly clear that division is the root of our anger, sadness and loneliness and yet it is the prevalent force in our society at present. Any entity that profits largely from any of those bad c words cannot therefore be trusted to advise or guide our society and certainly should not be given a mandate to determine the course of our lives. Perhaps, with the exception of competition, none of those forces belong in nature and they all take us away from our connection to nature. It is little wonder that we are suffering and stumbling around in the darkness we have invited upon ourselves.

There is no peace, no joy and no health in division.

In contrast we must be reminded that we are better than all of that and what we seek is Oneness and unity with each other, our source and our fellow beings.

Oneness has purest concern and compassion, love, kindness and respect.

Domestic and companion animals are seeking that co-dependency on the purest terms and until they evolve to develop a conscious awareness of a higher power, we are that for them. Like children until they mature, we are the safety, security and love they rely upon.

Animals are still the sentinels of Mother Nature as much as we have interfered with them and continue to interfere with them to make them more like ourselves when in fact it is us who should wholeheartedly be seeking to be more like them.  Humans must strive to seek to know our higher self and control our lower vital or aggressive urges.

One could rightfully contend that there are human beings behaving like wild animals. Competing, killing and taking what they like from others. There is a reason why we do not go near wild animals or forcibly try to domesticate them. Every human being must account for their personal behaviour and unlike wild animals have been afforded the privilege of a human incarnation to achieve their own enlightenment. Until and unless we support a society with this unified objective we will all be required to dig deeper, pray harder and strive to generate goodwill as we push through the darkness back into the light.

There is always light within those who maintain hope and aspire to be good and pure citizens of the world. This is what keeps us alive and we must try to see this in each other.

Take time this Winter to hunker down, stay warm and cuddle those close to you knowing and trusting that the light will return in due course.

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The difference between the outer light And the inner light is this: The outer light exposes the darkness; The inner light transforms our darkness Into light.

From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 30

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Light compassionately enters into The heart of darkness Smilingly, blessingfully And unreservedly To transform darkness into light.

From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 10

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When there is any dramatic battle

Between darkness and Light,Darkness may win in the beginning,

But the ultimate victoryGoes to Light.

From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 3