For those of us unfamiliar with Austin, Hippie Hollow is a nude beach on Lake Austin.

rofl…

Amazing.

You went to Hippie Hollow? You bad, bad girl!! lol!

Let me take you another step of the way if by your Will…

You share that you believe the Universe is ‘neutral’ by our human standards. You also used the term of ‘moral’.

Well…(smiling like a Cheshire cat…you’re gonna’ love this)…

“moral” means “that which is chosen”.

Once condemnations and judgments of negative enter the picture, then force is being applied emotionally. And once any aspect of force enters the picture, free choice is negated. In place of willingness there is compliance. And in place of Respect there is none.

We CANNOT be accused of being “immoral” to a code, a standard, we have never freely chosen. It is a contradiction in concept.

The Universe I know isn’t exactly ‘neutral’. It is always Loving. Unconditionally Loving & Accepting. It isn’t always easy to see the Love in our life. So become AWARE of what you’re already sensing through your Intuition. THAT would be, what we call “spirit communications” you are already picking up on.

It’s that quiet still voice your hearing through your senses.

On your blog I commented about your father living off women. Sucking energetcially off of them. Which I highly suspect you have been taught is a woman’s role. It is the ‘people pleasing disease’ as {motherwintermoon} phrased it.

I called it a virus. A consciousness virus. It is a dis-ease and for good reason.

It isn’t strictly a male thing. We all do it or have done it. It is one of the children of conditional love. It is a pattern of emotional need for nurturing.

What I read according to your story, when your mom didn’t give your dad enough nurturing, as much as he probably constantly demanded, he sought another woman who would. And sure enough, look at what role he has expressed his daughter to fulfill for him. The same thing. Do what he asks because he emotionally needs you to do it.

This is sucking off of your life’s energy. Your Liberty to direct your attention as you please, according to your own chosen code of value.

Now look at the area of your body effected with “dis-ease”. And notice the correspondence with “nurturing”.

I’d feel pretty much ill-at-ease with the kind of demands for nurturing you’ve been taught are ‘proving your love and respect’, too. My answer would be ‘so don’t believe I love you or respect you. No skin off my back; it’s a free choice.”

It’s not my responsibility if someone else is insecure. It’s only my responsibility if I am.

{{hugs}}

And (winking)…even as an Aggie, I’ve been to hippie hollow.

I hope I’m not misunderstanding you, but I believe what you’re saying is that you don’t believe in evil? Amazing. I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe that the universe is (by human standards) morally neutral. We’re so limited that we aren’t really able to differentiate between good and bad. Maybe it’s bad that I have breast cancer, but it’s also good because I’ve discovered so many wonderful things I wouldn’t have otherwise. Maybe it’s bad that I had a terrible childhood, but it’s also good because I can withstand anything. I’ve had lots of practice. lol! See what I mean?

I hope I haven’t misunderstood. If I have, I’m sure you’ll let me know.

My cheese balls have now been formed into balls and rolled in nuts, my pies are now all out of the oven and cooling and it isn’t time to cook my turkey yet. So I’m in good shape. I’m not one of the people that makes plans to go ‘shopping’ tomorrow. My ‘plans’ are to avoid such areas as best I as can.

For what’s in worth, growing up, my dad would always hang the outdoors christmas lights on Thanksgiving weekend. It’s part of what made Thanksgiving special…the bright lights of Christmas.

I used to use the strands of christmas lights in the bases of my pieces. Especially the ones that would fade in and out with several colors. The effect each color had on the feeling of the piece was amazing. Talk about coming alive!

I once read of a fella that kept his artificial tree up all year. People driving down the highway could and would, see it. And everyone who did, was treated to a moment in time, of that feeling of Christmas….all year long.

So go for it, Bro! Put em’ up tomorrow and don’t take ‘em down at all if you don’t feel like. Be as a child with your pleasures.

And a Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!

The experience of Gratitude, is the experience of standing in the Presence of God.

{{{hugs}}}

I think it a wonderful thing to imagine the colors of light on grey days and to imagine a place of sun too. The first of December I put up strings of miniture lights all around the house, around the windows and at night I turn off all lights except these, its beautiful to me, I usually take them down in January, but this year I think to keep them a bit longer….and maybe even put them up this week instead:)

Happy Thanksgiving Sue Ann **hugs**

I’m living on the peninsula of Washington state. As of the end of October the majority of days are grey. All day grey. Sometimes it can be grey for months without a break of sunshine all the way up to April. And wet.

And I’m more sunflower. I was used to days of heat well over 110 degrees before. I would bask in it. Lather pure cocoa butter all over me and bake.

Of all things, I miss the sunshine the most. That’s why I sense this will be my last winter ‘here’. It’s grey time again. Which means as you said, it is even more important for me to imagine the colors of light.

Quite a bit. Your Intition seems to be coming in loud and clear.

You just said it but I doubt you have realized just what you said you KNOW. I can just feeeeel it…the doubt. And I know you know. You just don’t know you know. If that makes any sense?

Light…revealed knowledge….illumination…

Now where does that put ‘the dark?’

In opposition to it?

Or simply unexposed?

Walk into any dark room.

Flip the light switch.

Did you or do you observe any ‘battles’?

‘Cause Honestly, I’ve never seen any.

Seems to me I won’t even find any darkness lurking in the corner if my bulb is of sufficient wattage.

Light reveals to us that darkness doesn’t exist.