A Prayer

Oh, heroes who love mercy more than life, confirm thy liberty in law, and bless thy good with brotherhood.

A Few Affirmations.

~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to give myself a better chance to have fun walking now.
~ I am ready, willing and able to learn to put a bit more love into my life here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to make the love in my life visible here.
~ I am grateful to be feeling this well right here and right now.
~ I seek to know what it means to take action appropriate to my good health this year.
~ I seek to be aware of the reward this year.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to join with others in a common task right here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to to know what it means to bring forth the goods and services needed for an attractive existence here. 
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to know the meaning of self-actualization here and now.
~ I propose to create love where I am here and now.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn what it means to engage in new learning here and now.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to avoid rigidity here and now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be with those of wide vision here and now.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to engage in a learning dialogue here and now.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to engage in planned experimentation  here and now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be open to learning in all parts of my life here and now.
~ I choose to be aware that mystery is resolved with experience this month.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to see that my action enhances my life this year.

Here

~ I am ready and willing to learn to plan to maintain a high level of good health here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be aware of who I love here.
~ I an ready and willing to learn to be a bit more aware of those I love here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to admit a fear of mine here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to carry out an act I truly enjoy carrying out here.
~ I seek to accept reality with serenity this  season.
~ I propose to accept the reality of my own ignorance right here and right now.
~ I am ready to learn to accept the ignorance of the people around me here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to know what it means to let truth go into action here.
~ I am ready to learn to clarify a fear of mine related to health today.
~ I am ready to learn to clarify another fear of mine today.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to admit a hurt of mine here.
~ I am ready to learn to better my position here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to behave in a which is right for me here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to know what it means right here and right now to let truth go into action.
~ I Intend to know what it means to hurl my life after my held conception of the truth this year.
~ There is a place for humanity in this universe here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to let a happening to occur here and now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be aware that the universe and humanity are 'made for each other' today.

Here Now Today

~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to have fun with another now.
~ I am ready, willing and able to learn to have a wonderful time with another now.
~ I propose to be be effective at keeping myself happy here.
~ I propose to be abundantly generous now.
~ I propose to be active enough now
~ I am ready to learn to to consider how much activity is good for me now.
~ I am willing to see enough appropriate physical activity in my life today.
~ I am ready to learn to consider what sort of activity is best for me now.
~ I propose to attend to a desire of mine here and now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to know what it means to seek love in me here.

Our Chances

Do you believe that loving, honoring, and respecting may improve our chances of avoiding war and for living abundantly?

Love

I would remember the love and let the rest go.


Toward that end I would be aware of who I love, how I love, why I love, and that I am shaped by love.

Abundant Life (IMHO of this day)

Ignorance is the way of want. Ignorance of the practice of equality, justice, respect, honor, and love pave a speedy road to want. Want is lack.


Ignorance is the way to degeneration and strife. What is a way to abundant life?


The understanding and and practice of love moves one to abundant life very well. Love is a good way. How is love understood? How is love practiced? It's a process. One could begin by getting clear about some meanings. Improve and extend your understanding of equality, justice, respect, and honor among men. Understanding the the interactions among the practice of law, justice, and equality as components of love helps. Knowing that love includes the best of respect and honor helps. Knowing that the heart of love is joyous nurturance is necessary. Learning that respectful, even reverent, nurturance makes love real, is vital.


A reader of the Bible may find help in getting on this road by noting that Jesus said that his purpose was to bring us abundant life. And then by going on to study the page or two of teachings after he says to love your God. There he points to the nature of love, He points to the knowledge and practice of love. He points to the process of learning to love. He tells the essentials and extent of doing it well. The readers must study, contemplate, and meditate well on his parables and examples. H makes it easy to begin.

A Christian is Good

Being a true Christian begins with love.


Being a true Christian continues with learning more of love.


A true Christian comes to know that this love, which has come to be called Christian love, is more.


He knows that the love he is charged to learn contains, but is more than:
~ admiration and benevolence,
~ unselfish acceptance of one's humanity and the seeking of that one's welfare,
~ cherishing,
~ man's adoration of God,
~ strong desire, prise, trust, belief,
~ perhaps even more than the fatherly concern of God for man.
~ motherly, sisterly, brotherly, fatherly.


He finds learning this lesson of love a difficult one, but not a complicated one.


He learns that he is apply this love to:
~ one and all,
~ his neighbor,
~ his self.


He applies his life to learning to:
a) love himself and to how he loves himself,
b) love his neighbor and who Jesus Christ includes as a neighbor,
c) love All and One and One and All.

A Hindu Is Good

Being a true Hindu begins with honesty and awareness.

He applies is honest and awareness to:
ethical,
resourceful,
and sensual
parts of his life.

He may apply his ethics, resourcefulness, and sensuality to his:
love,
daily actions,
meditation,
and understanding.

He proposes to know many aspects of freedom. He knows there is much before an ultimate freedom. He finds he may free his:
understanding,
meditation,
and love.

He is willing to have more:
ethical freedom,
freedom of resourcefulness,
and freedom of sensuality.

He is grateful to learn the joy of free honesty and free awareness. He continues in his joy-learning all of his days.

Affirmations

~ I am ready willing and able to respond to a desire of mine more promptly now.
~ I ready, willing, and able to learn to be a bi more aware of a wrong of mine here and now.
~ I choose to say, "Thank you." when someone pays me a compliment now.
~ I seek to keep working a self-maintinance program here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to tell myself specifically what I am doing right now.
~ I am ready willing, and able to learn to tell myself specifically what I am doing correctly now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be aware that I m capable of cheating myself and of depriving myself this season.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to be aware that the fatness of my body is a wrong of mine now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to exercise all of my larger muscle groups more regularly now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to smile a bit more here.
~ I am ready to learn to be well aware that self-development is facilitated by good health here.
~ I plan to smile right here and right now.
~ I am ready to learn to choose an appropriate response to whatever occurs here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to take a position that puts me in a win/win situation this season.
~ I am ready to learn to act from love here.

Love God

Most gods seem to agree that most love is good.


What most gods ask of us seems to be for our own good.


One of the things men say that gods ask of us is love.


Many say that a god considers love to be higher and easier than is is fairness and justice.


At least one god is said to have explained to us that to love is to find joy in nurturing one another.


For those who find it difficult to nurture and enjoy a number of other behaviors which approximate love are suggested. For example, we are told to avoid killing and greed.


Christians who cannot love are told that following the Ten Commandments has been a useful approximation

Assumptions? continued

Earlier I began to look at my budding understanding of the nature of our assumptions. Below I continue to bud without flowering. I continue in the expectation of sweet fruit.

I believe that I have an assumption of which I am unaware. I believe that I have adopted an assumption without realizing that I had done so. I suspect that you and I have assumptions that neither of us are aware of. I feel certain that you have an assumption that I am unaware of. How might the state of our knowledge of our assumptions effect our understanding? How might it effect the quality of our communication? I remember hearing one person say to another, "I don't get where you're coming from." I now understand the person was probably indicating that he didn't know the other person's assumptions and so could not put his opinions into perspective.

Even though I am pretty sure that there are assumptions of which I am unaware, the fact is that I am also pretty sure that I am well aware of many of my own assumptions and some of yours too. That awareness of assumptions helps(allows us)to communicate. The greater our awareness of each others awareness the better we can communicate. It also helps me when I am aware of my own assumption.

I remember my elders saying, "Define your terms." Defining terms doesn't exactly get a a person's assumptions, but it seems to be a move in that direction.

A friend of mine was having a relationship problem. In a discussion his significant other had several times said that she thought that he did not love her. Finally she said to him that he did not know what what love was. So, he asked her what she meant by love. Then she asked him what he meant by love. Their discussion about the meaning of 'love' lasted, on and off, for a couple of days. In those two days they came to understand and respect each other more that they ever had. It looked like love. They were lucky. Maybe they knew something about 'fair fighting.' I think that they probably uncovered an assumption or two.

An assumption is a bit like underwear.  Putting on your underwear may be called assuming your underwear. After you putting them on you usually give them little thought.  You probably don't typically spend much time thinking about the underwear of other people. Without thinking much about it, you might suppose that theirs is much like yours. That may, or may not, be the fact. You could be making an unconscious mistake. That mistake could lead to future difficulty. It is possible to make an unconscious assumption and then to act a though it were a fact.

You'd think that the world was complicated enough without assumptions. But aren't you glad that the cook from whom you order a cheeseburger doesn't assume that you want cheese ground up to look like burger?
His assumptions about the nature of a cheeseburger may not be exactly like yours, but they are often good enough. Thank goodness that we do clarify some of our assumptions

School of the Natural Order - Official Site

School of the Natural Order - Official Site


Vitvan is dead, but his teachings are not.

His writings are for a student; they are not easy.

There are understding people at Home Farm who can empathise with a with a student.

There are people who support the daily birth of the School of the Natural Order.

I feel a joyous gratitude for the teachings, the student, and the people who understand and support.

What' it all about? Everything.

Does it help to know that the learning is often about a process of love and reality.

Love

'Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.'

'Romance, sex, procreation is what love is about.'

'How does Jesus love wet kissing?'

'Love is about joy and nurturance, not romance.'

'Are you talkin' about all kinds of lovin'?'

'Do you mean strong desire, greed, lust, and passion?'

What do you find pleasing in love?
What do you find praiseworthy in love?
What do you find most pleasing in love?
What do you find most praiseworthy in love?

Love is an action word.
What form does your loving take?
How do you do love?